Tue October 2, 2018
Books and Resistance: A Conversation with David L. Ulin and Matthew Zapruder
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Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In this detached social landscape, former LA Times book critic David L. Ulin set out to answer timely questions: Why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now?
Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen—it doesn't matter. The key is the act of reading, and its seriousness and depth. David emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the accompanying focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one's own.
In the new edition of his book, The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time, David goes further to examine the role of reading in this age of fake news, information siloes, and how reading can deepen the connections between critical thinking as the key component of engaged citizenship and resistance
Join author Matthew Zapruder for a conversation with David as he makes the case for reading as a political act, in both public and private gestures, and for the ways it enlarges the world and our frames of reference.
David L. Ulin is the author or editor of ten 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 is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Tom and Mary Gallagher Fellowship from Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Lannan Residency Fellowship.
Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, including Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Sun Bear, as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many publications, including Ploughshares, Bomb, Slate, Tin House, Paris Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Believer, American Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Times and Real Simple, as well as in Best American Poetry in 2009, 2013, and 2017. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship in Marfa, TX. An Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books, and from 2016 to 2017 held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine.
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Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen—it doesn't matter. The key is the act of reading, and its seriousness and depth. David emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the accompanying focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one's own.
In the new edition of his book, The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time, David goes further to examine the role of reading in this age of fake news, information siloes, and how reading can deepen the connections between critical thinking as the key component of engaged citizenship and resistance
Join author Matthew Zapruder for a conversation with David as he makes the case for reading as a political act, in both public and private gestures, and for the ways it enlarges the world and our frames of reference.
David L. Ulin is the author or editor of ten 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 is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Tom and Mary Gallagher Fellowship from Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Lannan Residency Fellowship.
Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, including Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Sun Bear, as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many publications, including Ploughshares, Bomb, Slate, Tin House, Paris Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Believer, American Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Times and Real Simple, as well as in Best American Poetry in 2009, 2013, and 2017. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship in Marfa, TX. An Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books, and from 2016 to 2017 held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine.
Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In this detached social landscape, former LA Times book critic David L. Ulin set out to answer timely questions: Why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now?
Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen—it doesn't matter. The key is the act of reading, and its seriousness and depth. David emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the accompanying focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one's own.
In the new edition of his book, The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time, David goes further to examine the role of reading in this age of fake news, information siloes, and how reading can deepen the connections between critical thinking as the key component of engaged citizenship and resistance
Join author Matthew Zapruder for a conversation with David as he makes the case for reading as a political act, in both public and private gestures, and for the ways it enlarges the world and our frames of reference.
David L. Ulin is the author or editor of ten 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 is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Tom and Mary Gallagher Fellowship from Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Lannan Residency Fellowship.
Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, including Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Sun Bear, as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many publications, including Ploughshares, Bomb, Slate, Tin House, Paris Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Believer, American Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Times and Real Simple, as well as in Best American Poetry in 2009, 2013, and 2017. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship in Marfa, TX. An Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books, and from 2016 to 2017 held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine.
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Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen—it doesn't matter. The key is the act of reading, and its seriousness and depth. David emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the accompanying focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one's own.
In the new edition of his book, The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time, David goes further to examine the role of reading in this age of fake news, information siloes, and how reading can deepen the connections between critical thinking as the key component of engaged citizenship and resistance
Join author Matthew Zapruder for a conversation with David as he makes the case for reading as a political act, in both public and private gestures, and for the ways it enlarges the world and our frames of reference.
David L. Ulin is the author or editor of ten 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 is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Tom and Mary Gallagher Fellowship from Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Lannan Residency Fellowship.
Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, including Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Sun Bear, as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many publications, including Ploughshares, Bomb, Slate, Tin House, Paris Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Believer, American Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Times and Real Simple, as well as in Best American Poetry in 2009, 2013, and 2017. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship in Marfa, TX. An Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books, and from 2016 to 2017 held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine.
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