@helaineolen @cmarinucci Me too. One of my top five favorite cities anywhere.
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David Ulin
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David Ulin
@davidulin
Crafty southpaw. Editor, @airlight_mag.
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Nisan 2009
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Here’s what Naples looks like on a weekend night. When you don’t have guns and assault weapons all over the place, people feel safe socializing. What a concept.
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I'm filling out my ballot for California/Los Angeles races today and really feeling the absence of the LA Times editorial board and its well-argued recommendations.
@SoCalOpinion, meanwhile, IS still doing endorsements. They would be wise to shout about that early and often.
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@PhilKlay Cat in the Rain. My all time favorite. 1100 words and he encapsulates the entire story of a marriage in what is essentially a single scene.
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Just looking simply at what he’s doing with rhythm in a story like “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” is breathtaking
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates
not really. Hemingway only looks "easy"; his early prose is stark & chiseled & you have to reread to grasp what is happening, which his young protagonist doesn't grasp.
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@TheLincoln I'm sorry. This is just a terrible sentence, regardless of whether a machine or human wrote it. At least we can aspire to do better than that.
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The Granta slop story has, uh, given a new meaning to morning wood
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@aliner I churn out a ton of it. (Without the help of AI, thank you very much.) I just don't share a lot.
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It's hard to read Tokarczuk's use of AI as disconnected from the wave of churn-it-outism that increasingly blurs the line between experimental literature and content production.
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I’ve been waiting for this, it feels like, as long as I’ve been in Los Angeles.
golden-state.org/d-line-wilshir…
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David Ulin retweetledi
Paul McCartney’s recent performances confront the last frontier of rock and roll: mortality, @davidulin writes. He considers Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” and the “late style” of rock: theatln.tc/6rhSn5OH
🎨: Lucy Naland
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The Guardian’s panel has chosen the 100 greatest novels of all time and has put BELOVED second. That is among the most ludicrous aesthetic judgments in the annals of Western culture. Embarrassing tokenism.
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@FrankieInVegas @jpodhoretz The Lord of the Rings? Please give me a break. Also, Beloved is one of the great works of American literature (although I prefer Song of Solomon), and lists like this are utterly ridiculous as we can see from the vacuity of the discussion on this thread.
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If you told me it didn't have Dostoevsky near or at the top, I'd tell you it was a list created by lefties.
Dostoevsky's highest rank is at 28, Faulkner at 57. Laughable.
Unless I missed them, there is NO Huxley, Salinger, Solzhenitsyn, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Koestler, Buzzati, Eco, Balzac.
Entirely transparent.
The Lord of the Rings was ranked on numerous previous Guardian lists. It has been erased from this list. Now, square that peg.
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@CarmenSoCal @meghan_daum Which public figures? And please, no celebrities.
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@meghan_daum no clue but it sounds like he has people in mind & public figures he supposedly shared that info to have gotten on board
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Question: if Spencer Pratt became LA mayor and functioned mostly as a kind of figurehead who was surrounded by a highly competent and forward-thinking team of advisors/deputies, who would be on that team? (Try to be serious, please.)
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@MoiraDonegan As someone raised in New York, who moved to Los Angeles 35 years ago, I think just the opposite.
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As a New Yorker, when I go to Los Angeles I think, “Oh, grow up.”
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David Ulin retweetledi
Paul McCartney’s recent performances confront the last frontier of rock and roll: mortality, @davidulin writes. He considers Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” and the “late style” of rock: theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/…
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@RichardABCDEFG @christopherrufo Richard Nixon was never governor. He famously lost to Pat Brown in 1962.
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@christopherrufo Back when Richard Nixon was governor you had
Cheap housing
Uncrowded freeways, without congestion
A mostly middle class society and
Free public universities for all
After thirty years of all Democratic rule, all these things are gone
So which party helps the working people?
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For more than 100 years, California was a red state. We are going to make it red again.
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Vanishing too is the ability/inclination to engage with the work as something apart from its creator, that may know things she doesn't
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Pelicot writes not as victim or survivor but as the site of the crime. It's unlike anything I've read. But the book's formal challenges + peculiarities have scarcely been engaged--
Parul Sehgal@parul_sehgal
Wrote about Gisèle Pelicot's extraordinary memoir and how poorly + partially survivor narratives are read. Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/mag…
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@meghan_daum All due respect, it's clear evidence that he has no ideas of substance and no real understanding even of what the language that he's using means.
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Is there any evidence that yelling "commie commie commie" all day about entrenched Democrats actually reaches new voters? Or is it a dopamine-driven feedback loop for people probably not even voting in the election at hand?
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All you need to know. There is no commitment to the city. Just a brand building exercise, as anyone who can string two thoughts together already understood.
Let’s see if he keeps his promise when he loses. One can only hope.
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes
Spencer Pratt says he will likely leave Los Angeles and California if he doesn’t win the mayoral race “If I don't win, I can always say, yep, now you have communists, the city's destroyed. Good luck everybody, I tried. I warned you. I told you what I found out and learned in a year of doing this all day long, every day, talking to people in the federal government, people in the IRS, criminal investigation, everything I've learned. I'm telling you, this is a red alert. And if you want to choose to go that way, then I can end up moving to Bentonville one day and looking back and saying, I tried to save LA. It's done.” Here’s the thing about this, I have seen nothing but negative engagement on all platforms over Democrat candidates and EVERYONE supports Spencer Pratt If he doesn’t win it’s fraud. Democrats rig elections, illegals vote and Gavin Newsom made checking ID illegal when voting
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Growing old can be a liberating experience. It allows us to rethink, to clarify or reassess. Late style, in other words, renders creativity more—not less—essential.
theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/…
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David Ulin retweetledi
Paul McCartney’s recent performances confront the last frontier of rock and roll: mortality, @davidulin writes. He considers Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” and the “late style” of rock: theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/…
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