David L. Ulin

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E-lationships

David L. Ulin
Photo by Ellen WarnerONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT LIVING IN OUR electronic age is the way it has generated a resurgence in the gentle art of correspondence -- sort of. E-mail is an ambiguous form of dialogue, equally familiar and remote. "It was quiet," Sylvia Brownrigg notes in her......
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Words of War

David L. Ulin
Courtesy of Ward JustTHE FURTHER WE GET FROM THE VIETNAM WAR, THE LESS real it becomes. This is not to say that the war has ceased to be a potent reference point, just that, nearly a quarter-century after its conclusion, it has devolved into a metaphor for the moment when......

The Myth of Solid Ground

David L. Ulin
Photo by Virginia Lee HunterTHIS IS A STORY ABOUT MYTHOLOGY, OR, more accurately, about the place where mythology and reality coincide. It's a story that begins and ends with an earthquake, a story that has everything to do with the way that, here in California, the ground is less than......
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Literary L.A.

David L. Ulin
JERVEY TERVALON sold his first poem to Scholastic magazine while he was still in junior high school. "'My God,'" the Pasadena resident remembers thinking, "'I can make money at this.' And I've been deluded ever since." Raised in Los Angeles, he attended Dorsey High School and UC Santa Barbara, where......
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Literary L.A.

David L. Ulin
SUSAN FALUDI exploded into public consciousness in 1991 with the release of Backlash, which reported what she described as an undeclared war on feminism. The book grew out of an article she wrote debunking Newsweek's infamous "man shortage" story of 1986. Born in New York, Faludi calls herself "one of......
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Literary L.A.

David L. Ulin
Stereotypes die hard, of course, and if any city understands this, it's Los Angeles. Witness the national fawning over the new Getty Center - as if the superficial daughter of a great, cultured family had finally brought home a boyfriend who could speak the King's English. One of L.A.'s more......
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Literary L.A.

David L. Ulin
By the time LEWIS MacADAMS discovered the Beats as a Dallas high school freshman, he already knew that "My fate was not connected with the future of the suburbs." After attending Princeton, he spent time in New York, then moved in 1970 to Bolinas in Marin County. From 1974 to......