David L. Ulin

David Ulin is Alta’s books editor. Ulin is also the author or editor of 10 books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the Library of America’s Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. The former book editor and book critic of the Los Angeles Times, he has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, the Nation, the New York Times, and other publications. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lannan Foundation.

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Lives of the Poets

In Index of Women and Now We’re Getting Somewhere, Amy Gerstler and Kim Addonizio write out of the uncertainty of the times.
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Apr 26, 2021
Why You Should Read This: ‘The Mars Room’

Transformative and resonant, Rachel Kushner’s novel is grounded in reality.

Mar 29, 2021
Why You Should Read This: ‘Mean’

Alta’s books editor makes the case for Myriam Gurba’s groundbreaking memoir.

Mar 15, 2021
Machine Dreams

With Speculative Los Angeles, Denise Hamilton peels back the surface of the real.
Feb 24, 2021
The Smithy of His Soul

Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021).
Feb 8, 2021
Stranger in a Strange Land

In Love Is an Ex-Country, Randa Jarrar takes a look at America—and herself.
Jan 25, 2021
Her Back Pages

With Let Me Tell You What I Mean, Joan Didion ties up the loose ends of a literary life.
Dec 28, 2020
A Field Guide to Getting Lost

In Desert Oracle, Ken Layne goes all in on the Mojave’s lore—and lure.