Thanks to @lareported.bsky.social for giving me the space to think through @metrolosangeles.bsky.social's D Line Extension, due to open in the next few months.
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lareported.substack.com/p/metro-d-li...
Take the D train
Will Metro’s Wilshire Boulevard line be our public-transit turning point?
lareported.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Thanks to @lareported.bsky.social for giving me the space to think through @metrolosangeles.bsky.social's D Line Extension, due to open in the next few months.
lareported.substack.com/p/metro-d-li...
lareported.substack.com/p/metro-d-li...
“Novels are far more than simple entertainment; they are a means of facing society’s failures head on.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Remembering James Sallis
A close reading of James Sallis’s novels and the existential vision that reshaped American crime fiction.
www.altaonline.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
“Novels are far more than simple entertainment; they are a means of facing society’s failures head on.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Disconcerting? That’s my alma mater, speaking the hard truths.
Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Disconcerting? That’s my alma mater, speaking the hard truths.
Reposted by David Ulin
Another week, another $100 million that a broke city will magically conjure up for a megaevent that's not supposed to cost taxpayers a dime
LAPD wants nearly $100M to police the Olympics. Who's going to pay for it?
City Hall is already in dispute over the department's current budget. Now, LAPD wants new vehicles and equipment for 2028.
laist.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Another week, another $100 million that a broke city will magically conjure up for a megaevent that's not supposed to cost taxpayers a dime
No cover yet, but here's the title page. Coming September 22. Very excited about this one.
January 20, 2026 at 1:39 AM
No cover yet, but here's the title page. Coming September 22. Very excited about this one.
Reposted by David Ulin
LA's council passed this motion which will request that LA28 present how, exactly, the organizing committee is working with federal law enforcement including "guardrails the City can enact to ensure that the City's most vulnerable communities are protected."
Unfortunately, it's just that, a request
Unfortunately, it's just that, a request
January 14, 2026 at 3:00 AM
LA's council passed this motion which will request that LA28 present how, exactly, the organizing committee is working with federal law enforcement including "guardrails the City can enact to ensure that the City's most vulnerable communities are protected."
Unfortunately, it's just that, a request
Unfortunately, it's just that, a request
Patriot.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Patriot.
Fare thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOi...
Let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOi...
Grateful Dead - Cassidy - 10/31/1980 - Radio City Music Hall
YouTube video by Wolfgang's Grateful Dead
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Fare thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOi...
Let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOi...
Reposted by David Ulin
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
Lonesome and a long way from home.
January 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Lonesome and a long way from home.
Reposted by David Ulin
Renee Nicole Good
May her memory be for a blessing. May she rest in power.
January 7, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Renee Nicole Good
Reposted by David Ulin
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 PM
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
Reposted by David Ulin
Special shoutout to David L. Ulin, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Susan Straight and Susan Brenneman for contributing.
A lot happened in California in 1846. Same with Pasadena when the Van Halen brothers lived there, and in forests that have seen one record fire season after another.
Read our list of books, picked by some of So Cal's biggest bibliophiles, that helped us better understand the Golden State.
Read our list of books, picked by some of So Cal's biggest bibliophiles, that helped us better understand the Golden State.
Six books that will help you understand California
Prominent authors and journalists talk about the books they read in 2025 that gave them special insight into California's history, people and culture.
www.golden-state.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Special shoutout to David L. Ulin, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Susan Straight and Susan Brenneman for contributing.
In Spite of All The Danger - The Quarrymen
YouTube video by beat68
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Reposted by David Ulin
"A writer who knows what he's doing doesn't know very much." ~ Nelson Algren
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"A writer who knows what he's doing doesn't know very much." ~ Nelson Algren
“Unreleased, unrecorded, performed once or twice a cappella, no instruments at all in its history—the Platonic ideal of a song, for me, so tenuous that it can barely be said to exist; momentary; self-contained.”
www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...
www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...
Memory Book
In This Year, John Darnielle (de)mystifies the song.
www.altaonline.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“Unreleased, unrecorded, performed once or twice a cappella, no instruments at all in its history—the Platonic ideal of a song, for me, so tenuous that it can barely be said to exist; momentary; self-contained.”
www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...
www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...
"One cannot make up time. One can make up a story or a face or a bed. Ugh. I find it all repellent."
Time and Tide
In The Pelican Child, Joy Williams offers 12 takes on the weirdness of the world.
www.altaonline.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"One cannot make up time. One can make up a story or a face or a bed. Ugh. I find it all repellent."
Reposted by David Ulin
Heads up: You should read David Ulin’s 2 cents’ worth on the penny
Belief, however, is an inside job. This, too, is a lesson I have learned. What really happened that July 4? Then and now, I believe a penny saved my life.
The Penny Is Dead. Its Magic Isn’t.
As the coin fades out, David L. Ulin reflects on its invaluable magic.
www.altaonline.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Heads up: You should read David Ulin’s 2 cents’ worth on the penny
Belief, however, is an inside job. This, too, is a lesson I have learned. What really happened that July 4? Then and now, I believe a penny saved my life.
The Penny Is Dead. Its Magic Isn’t.
As the coin fades out, David L. Ulin reflects on its invaluable magic.
www.altaonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Belief, however, is an inside job. This, too, is a lesson I have learned. What really happened that July 4? Then and now, I believe a penny saved my life.
"The ordinary can tell a deep story. I don’t write novels that have enormous adventure plots, or mysteries where a secret is unfurled. I’m interested in finding a specific detail that allows me to explore something resonant and deep.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Writer’s Room: Form and Function
In At Last, Marisa Silver portrays a family from the inside out.
www.altaonline.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"The ordinary can tell a deep story. I don’t write novels that have enormous adventure plots, or mysteries where a secret is unfurled. I’m interested in finding a specific detail that allows me to explore something resonant and deep.”
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
LOS ANGELES PEOPLE, YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS:
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
LOS ANGELES PEOPLE, YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS:
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM
📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC).
RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...
Glad to live in California, a state where I can still walk into a pharmacy and walked out vaxxed for flu and COVID. It's called science, in case you were wondering.
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Glad to live in California, a state where I can still walk into a pharmacy and walked out vaxxed for flu and COVID. It's called science, in case you were wondering.