BY DAVID KIPEN
The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History
TRANSLATOR
The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes
EDITOR
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
DAVID KIPEN was born in Los Angeles. Author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History and translator of the Cervantes novella The Dialogue of the Dogs, he teaches on the full-time UCLA writing faculty. For seven years Kipen was book critic of the San Francisco Chronicle and now serves as critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times. As literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts, he co-created the permanent federal literary, still-thriving initiative The Big Read. In 2010 he founded the nonprofit lending library Libros Schmibros in the working-class L.A. neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
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