So, this happened.

This also isn't something Metro or the dozens of other transit agencies in California are doing just because of upcoming megaevents. This is something that much every other major transit system in the world is already doing. We're catching up — and bringing 25 smaller agencies with us!

Tradition.

I’ve been waiting for this, it feels like, as long as I’ve been in Los Angeles. www.golden-state.org/d-line-wilsh...

Growing old can be a liberating experience. It allows us to rethink, to clarify or reassess. Late style, in other words, renders creativity more—not less—essential. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

This is absolutely true.

“The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself.” 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/federal...

Really looking forward to this one.

This is idiocy. Not only have seniors been paying into the system their whole working lives— ie, a work requirement—but how does a 90 year old with failing cognition and physical infirmities work?

As ever, I just want to hide out in the work.

David Foster Wallace‘s INFINITE JEST and @davidulin.bsky.social David L. Ulin‘s SIDEWALKING were both featured in the @latimes.com list of 101 Best Book Club Picks: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I'm all in for this.

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.” www.altaonline.com/culture/movi...

And yet, that figure on the shore: He is every one of us, isn’t he? He is every hungry reader who has ever undertaken to feel their way toward becoming a writer. www.altaonline.com/california-b...

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

“In a would-be autocracy, even a small bookstore—with hundreds of books, classic, recent, and current—is a space of contrary narratives, where truth is recognized as both essential and complicated.” newrepublic.com/article/2076...

My favorite part of writing comes when, after numerous near misses and misfires, the right word asserts itself like a puzzle piece fitting into place.

"There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die."

Mother-in-law just left after a five day visit and we have saged the house. How's your morning going?

Don't worry everybody, there's a 22 yo in charge of counter terrorism and Kash Patel fired most of the experts in Iranian militant groups.

“Believe the words you cannot bear to hear.” www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...

’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

This Sunday in Hollywood.

No, Gmail, I don't want an AI Overview.

I know That everything I look out upon will vanish. But I have Always been astonished at any sort of permanence, & so, Thank You. Before everything I look out upon has vanished: Thank You. www.altaonline.com/books/poetry...

This is some serial killer shit.

Atlantic City, 1935. My mother's father is in the center.

We have a cover.

I couldn’t agree more.

Thanks to @lareported.bsky.social for giving me the space to think through @metrolosangeles.bsky.social's D Line Extension, due to open in the next few months. lareported.substack.com/p/metro-d-li...

“Novels are far more than simple entertainment; they are a means of facing society’s failures head on.” www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...

“Comfort, for all else is futility.” 4columns.org/ulin-david-l...

Disconcerting? That’s my alma mater, speaking the hard truths.

Another week, another $100 million that a broke city will magically conjure up for a megaevent that's not supposed to cost taxpayers a dime

No cover yet, but here's the title page. Coming September 22. Very excited about this one.

LA's council passed this motion which will request that LA28 present how, exactly, the organizing committee is working with federal law enforcement including "guardrails the City can enact to ensure that the City's most vulnerable communities are protected." Unfortunately, it's just that, a request

Patriot.

Fare thee well now Let your life proceed by its own design Nothing to tell now Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOi...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Lonesome and a long way from home.

Renee Nicole Good

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

Special shoutout to David L. Ulin, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Susan Straight and Susan Brenneman for contributing.

Happy New Year, everybody. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuuO...

"A writer who knows what he's doing doesn't know very much." ~ Nelson Algren

“Unreleased, unrecorded, performed once or twice a cappella, no instruments at all in its history—the Platonic ideal of a song, for me, so tenuous that it can barely be said to exist; momentary; self-contained.” www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...

"One cannot make up time. One can make up a story or a face or a bed. Ugh. I find it all repellent."

Heads up: You should read David Ulin’s 2 cents’ worth on the penny