{"id":736,"date":"2012-07-12T21:51:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T04:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=736"},"modified":"2012-07-12T21:51:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T04:51:51","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e30-the-stories-of-los-angeles-with-david-kipen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E30: The Stories of Los Angeles with David Kipen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Colin Marshall sits down in Boyle Heights with David Kipen, founder of that neighborhood’s combined bookstore and lending library Libros Schmibros<\/a> and a true man of both letters and Los Angeles. He gives commentary on books and literary culture on KPCC-FM and Sirius XM’s The Bob Edwards Show<\/em>, he’s written the book\u00a0The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History<\/em>, he recently translated Cervantes’ The Dialogue of the Dogs<\/em> for Melville House Books, and he spent over four years as the National Endowment for the Arts’ Director of Literature, where he got their Big Read<\/a> program started. They discuss how to sell paper books in neighborhoods the Kindle hasn’t penetrated; his interest in getting into conversations about books on both the low-profile person-to-person level and the high-profile media one; whether we have indeed left an actual lost golden age of American reading; the lack of “slack” in American life to use for reading; how rail makes up a city’s skeleton, and how Los Angeles’ skeleton is growing with new additions like the Libros Schmibros-proximate Gold Line; 1939, the annus mirabilis of Los Angeles literature, and the city’s modern desire, as exemplified by Mike Davis’ City of Quartz<\/em>,\u00a0to fetishize its own depredations and destruction; whether it’s hard to keep your mind in the narrative of this city, where even the natives have to immigrate; and that undervalued observer of Los Angeles and the whole of California, Thomas Pynchon.<\/p>\n

Download the interview from\u00a0Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0or on iTunes\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Photo: Alissa Walker)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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