David L. Ulin
David L. Ulin is assistant professor of the practice of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of "Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles" and "The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith" and editor of "Another City: Writing from Los Angeles" and "Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology."
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Los Angeles appears to be about the surfaces, but it's really about the depths.
A conversation about "Her," the Bradbury Building, JPL, Octavia Butler, and imagining utopic and dystopic futures for the City of Angels.
The word "California" was tracked through millions of books published across nine languages and several centuries to decipher its representation in world literature.
William Mulholland gave L.A. water and a motto to live by. David Ulin ruminates on the lifeblood of California.