PODCAST #90: David L. Ulin
Ulin's new book "Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles", deals directly with his nearly 25-year history in the city.
By Colin MarshallJanuary 19, 2016
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Colin Marshall talks with David L. Ulin, former book critic at the Los Angeles Times and author of such books as The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith, The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, and the novella Labyrinth. He is also the editor of the anthologies of Los Angeles writing Writing Los Angeles and Another City, and his new book, Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, deals directly with his nearly 25-year history in the city and what it means, to him and others, to live here.
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Colin Marshall is the host of the podcast “Notebook on Cities and Culture.”
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Colin Marshall is a Seoul-based essayist on cities, language, and culture. His latest book, published in Korean, is 한국 요약 금지 (No Summarizing Korea, 2024).
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