With the sweetest of all boys.

No one who sends police or soldiers (if there's even a difference these days) after their own peacefully protesting students should have anything to do with education ever again.

Thank you to everyone who visited our booth at the LA Times Festival of Books this past weekend! We made all sorts of new friends 📚

Halfway through (and loving) David Ulin’s THIRTEEN QUESTION METHOD, the kind of L.A. noir I’m always looking for.

Last night, at my nephew’s wedding.

Maggie Nelson talks with Hari Kunzru and David Ulin about the sense of 'undoneness' inherent in the act of writing. #latimesfob

“Making love to you was never second best” is the single worst lyric of all time.

Will you be catching David Ulin at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend? Revisit his essay for Zócalo where he ruminates on noir and Los Angeles: zps.la/4736TpD

My existential crisis is having an existential crisis.

up as usual
by six am regardless
of the night before

In today's book review, David Ulin looks at 'The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry,' by Arthur Sze.

altaonline.com/books/poetry/a…

I drink wine by the eastern fence in the yellow dusk.
Now a dark fragrance fills
my sleeves and makes me spin.
The bamboo blinds sway in the west wind.
And I am even thinner than a yellow flower.

altaonline.com/books/poetry/a…

“A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.” —Alain Robbe-Grillet
buff.ly/3SPPRq8

We're returning to the LA Times Festival of Books! And we're bringing a few former CBC authors, guests, and guest hosts, including: Daniel A. Olivas (he/him), José Vadi, Dana Johnson, Myriam Gurba Serrano, Reyna Grande, David Ulin, D. J. Waldie, Naomi Hirahara, & Hector Tobar.

Full list here:
altaonline.com/events/a603594…

You're not going to want to miss this.

The Yale Review is hiring an editorial assistant! Join the staff of our award-winning magazine, and come work with us at our offices in New Haven. For details and to apply:

bit.ly/tyrassistant

I'm 62, and I wear pretty much the same outfit every day as well.

Fuck you, New York Post.

Today at air/light magazine, we launch 'Gaza Diaries,' a series, co-published with wearenotnumbers.org, showcasing young Palestinian writers. Over the next five weeks, we will present the work of nine writers, created both before and after October 7.

airlightmagazine.org/gaza-diaries/

The only thing I’ve learned from my fitness app is that I pace an average of three miles a day.

all these
upturned
eyes