Posts Tagged ‘david’
David Talbot’s stroke provides a parable for our time
David Talbot, a long time Bay Area journalist and political activist returns to the California Sun podcast to share a reimagined view of the world after his life-threatening stroke. His near-death experience, and what he learned from it, is also the…
Read MoreDavid Ulin explains Joan Didion
David Ulin, the former L.A. Times book editor, interprets Joan Didion, just as she interpreted California. As the editor of the new multi-volume edition of her collected works, Ulin shares insights about Didion as a writer and cultural figure and…
Read MoreDavid Ulin on the joys and challenges of Los Angeles
David Ulin, the former book editor of the L.A. Times, points out that few American cities have changed more in the past two decades than Los Angeles. The city that existed at the turn of the century has been reinvented, and the longtime social and…
Read MoreDavid Talbot and a tale of San Francisco gone wrong
David Talbot has never been accused of being shy about his views. The founder of Salon and longtime voice for so-called San Francisco values now sees his adopted home as a tale of two cities. In his best selling book “Season of the Witch,” he…
Read MoreDavid Kipen shares five-hundred years of opinions about Los Angeles
David Kipen, author, journalist, and cultural historian of Los Angeles has scoured libraries, archives, and private estates to assemble a kaleidoscopic view of the unique city of Los Angeles. He shares 500 years of writings in and about the city and…
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