David L. Ulin
Auteur van The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time
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David L. Ulin is the author or editor of eight previous books, including The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time and the Library of America's Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he is book critic, and former toon meer book editor, of the Los Angeles Times. toon minder
Fotografie: LA Times Book Review editor David Ulin
at LA Times Book Prize shortlist party, New York, 2007
Copyright © 2007 Ron Hogan
at LA Times Book Prize shortlist party, New York, 2007
Copyright © 2007 Ron Hogan
Werken van David L. Ulin
The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith (2004) 63 exemplaren
Los Angeles: Portrait of a city; Porträt einer Stadt; portrait d'une ville {abridged} (2009) — Medewerker — 10 exemplaren
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The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Medewerker — 167 exemplaren
Los Angeles: Portrait of a city; Porträt einer Stadt; portrait d'une ville {complete} (2009) — Medewerker — 101 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- Ulin, David L.
- Officiële naam
- Ulin, David Lawrence
- Geboortedatum
- 1961
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Pennsylvania (BA)
- Beroepen
- editor
freelance writer
critic - Organisaties
- National Book Critics Circle (member of board of directors ∙ 2008--)
University of California, Riverside (instructor)
Antioch University Los Angeles (guest instructor)
University of Southern California (lecturer)
Los Angeles Times (book editor / critic)
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Cape Cod Noir (Akashic Noir) door David L. Ulin
3.2/5
The sections about the effects of technology and e-books have been widely written about elsewhere and I did not find new insights in this essay. I would have been interesting when it was first written, but it is quite dated now.
"Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction, a matter of engagement in a society that seems to want nothing more than for us to disengage."
This essay perfectly sums up everything that has happened in the past decade, where technology of the internet came by and how the unstoppable information rush (which can be a distraction) change the way we talk, think, and read.
This essay perfectly sums up everything that has happened in the past decade, where technology of the internet came by and how the unstoppable information rush (which can be a distraction) change the way we talk, think, and read.
This book started life as an essay, and was originally subtitled: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, I loved how this book reminding me of all the little aspects of why I love books, reading and how reading a real book in a sense as the author puts it: “Act of Resistance in a landscape of distraction” I hope that in reading this book you will find your way back to the page.
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- #29,074
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- 3.6
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- 34
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