Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, by David L. Ulin
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In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a history of the city’s built environment, a meditation on the author’s relationship to the city, and a rumination on the art of urban walking. Exploring Los Angeles through the soles of his feet, Ulin gets at the experience of its street life, drawing from urban theory, pop culture, and literature. For readers interested in the culture of Los Angeles, this book offers a pointed look beneath the surface in order to see, and engage with, the city on its own terms.
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, by David L. Ulin - Amazon Sales Rank: #54630 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .60" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 152 pages
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, by David L. Ulin Review "The moments of true beauty in this shortest of books are precisely when Ulin reminds us that the everyday texture of Los Angeles . . . already functions like a quantum field out of which distant influences, disorienting urban rebirths and half-remembered cinematic cameos are constantly emerging. It is a city of 'seismic existentialism, ' he wonderfully suggests, whose ground is shaken not just by earthquakes but by the seemingly endless eruption of alternative urban forms, often successfully breaking through."--Geoff Manaugh"Los Angeles Times" (10/09/2015)"Walking in Los Angeles is not an oxymoron. In this revealing meditation on what it means to pound the pavement in the City of Automobiles, book critic David L. Ulin observes a Los Angeles that many of us didn't even knew existed. . . . Thoughtful and poetic, Ulin's small volume proves there is more to the City of Angels than just beaches, movie stars and abundant sunshine."--June Sawyers"Chicago Tribune" (10/23/2015)"In a series of fascinating, at times impressionistic, disquisitions [Ulin] unlocks some of Los Angeles s hieroglyphic secrets. Step right up then for Ulin s tour of Los Angeles, a diffuse city full of 'nonlandmark landmarks.' . . . The pleasure of"Sidewalking"is watching Ulin contextualize each place by considering the way its history is preserved, effaced, or buried under the surface."--Matt Seidel"Los Angeles Review of Books" (11/03/2015)""David Ulin s"Sidewalking"opens LA up for all of us locals or not. A quietly stirring book, this should be on your must-read list. . . . I loved it and can t wait to read it again and again."--Anna March"The Rumpus" (01/13/2016)"
From the Inside Flap "Sidewalking is a profound and poetic book. It is a meditation not only on the strange and marvelous nature of Los Angeles but also on the nature of history, memory, and community itself. This is nonfiction writing at its very best." —Susan Orlean, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of seven books, including the New York Times bestseller The Orchid Thief “Sidewalking will cement David Ulin’s already well-deserved reputation as a leading literary critic. Like a good, long walk, his book is an exercise in patience, observation, and reflection. At the end of the journey, you feel you’ve been someplace—and you feel illuminated and enlightened." —Héctor Tobar, author of the New York Times bestseller Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free "An inspiring challenge to engage with urban life, Sidewalking raises unprejudiced questions about city and 'city'—the built environment and the individual’s own experience of it. L.A.'s famous sprawl and very human neighborhoods, its uneasy meld of public and private spaces, its legendary gridlock, its organic and artificial environments, all feature in what is no less than the teasing out of a new and nuanced interpretation of the nature of 'urbanity’ itself." —Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black and White Oleander "I see this book as a benign remake of [the movie] Falling Down. In this version, Michael Douglas, after abandoning his car, has the good fortune to bump into David Ulin, who not only offers to accompany him on his journey home but also suggests a few extensive detours. In the course of their walking-talk tour, Douglas learns that he has the good fortune to reside in a fascinating city and goes on to live a fulfilled—and inquiring—life." —Geoff Dyer, author of numerous books, including But Beautiful, winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize "There are so many lines in this book I’d like to have at my fingertips, so many rational, logical, wholly original arguments for why Los Angeles is deeper and more soulful than it can seem, that I almost wish I could keep it in my pocket for whenever an outsider coughs up the usual hoary insults. As it is, Sidewalking has taken up welcome and necessary residence in my mind. And, to be precise, David Ulin doesn’t argue on behalf of his adopted city. He observes, he challenges, he shows his abiding and complicated love for the place. Which is only right, since when it comes to L.A.’s status as the most surprising and mysterious city in America, there is no argument." —Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
About the Author 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 book editor, of the Los Angeles Times.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Warning - this is NOT A guide a book. But I really enjoyed reading it. By Selleree I liked this book.This book is basically a rumination of one transplant from NY to LA who has lived there for, what I'm guessing, is about 10-20 years. He is someone that used to take public transportation, walk a lot, and he was trying to apply the same mindset and walking options in LA. I can totally relate. I spent some time in LA myself, although a whole lot more recently, and I too was taking public transportation and walking in a car city, and I felt that he was really on point about many things. You really have a different, more direct interaction with the CITY when you're walking then when you're driving. I agree that the city has this mish mosh of OLD and NEW together at the same time, of PUBLIC and PRIVATE together at the same time, and REAL and FAKE at the same time, Indoor/ outdoor space at the same time, etc., the list goes on. Those are EXACTLY some of the same things I noticed in LA that other cities, like NY don't really have. And I love how those opposite worlds collide, I agree with the author, they make the city WHAT it is and make it great.He used a lot of movies, music, and cultural references in his writing, all of which I felt were very relevant. He also used a LOT of quotes, esp early on in the book, and I thought those were kind of annoying and didn't really connect well. I thought that he repeated himself a lot, which I wasn't totally against, but a little more diversity in his example and thoughts would have been nice. Although I suppose if you ARE ruminating, you DO repeat a lot and analyze the SAME thing from MANY ANGLES which is exactly what he did here. I enjoyed learning a lot of the facts about the city I didn't know. Like I didn't know LACMA didn't originally have an entrance on Wilshire. Having lived so close to there and passing it every day, that blows my mind. Also didn't know a lot of the history of the city, which I was happy to learn about.Overall, I liked this book. Warning to the new reader - it reads more like a highly analytical, diary with history and media thrown in then a guide book to LA and famous places. And I LIKED THIS TOO, I know all about the famous touristy places, been there done that. But it's the more LOCAL aspect that I enjoyed. As he described the streets he walked I could relate because I remember walking them too, and seeing those neighborhoods as well. It's all about the LOCAL aspect. The everyday. The growth of a city. And the continuing interchange between old and new. It was really nice to see his perspective.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. 5 Stars! By Susan Henderson What a beauty this book is! A meditation about walking the sidewalks of a city known for drivers and highways and traffic jams. And more so, a meditation about slowing down to notice our relationship with where we live, how our identities and memories are interwoven with the physical space we share with others. Sidewalking feels in some ways like a companion piece to Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Essays that give you a complex look at California and beg you to engage more in the world.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An Excellent Way to Walk Through L.A. By Richard Eisenberg If you would like to learn about L.A.'s past, present and future, read Sidewalking. It is a smart, short personal take by a former New Yorker who truly knows Los Angeles and literally walks you through it.
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