LA Times Book Critic David Ulin returns to Media Mayhem to discuss the upcoming Festival of Books in Los Angeles, as well as the differences in eBooks and print and more. David discusses the importance of the recently deceased Chinua Achebe, the problems with books about baseball, and offers some of his favorite books for your consideration.

David L. Ulin is a book critic of the Los Angeles Times. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Paper’s book editor. He is the author of “The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time” and “The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith,” selected as a best book of 2004 by the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle.

He is also the editor of three anthologies: “Cape Cod Noir,” “Another City: Writing from Los Angeles,” and the Library of America’s “Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology,” which won a 2002 California Book Award. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Black Clock, Columbia Journalism Review, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

He was awarded a 2010 Southern California Independent Booksellers Association/Glenn Goldman Book Award for his work on “Los Angeles: Portrait of a City.”