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@davidkipen

Federal Writers' Project resurrectionist; author, “Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters”; storefront lending librarian @LibrosSchmibros!

Los Angeles, CA Katılım Ağustos 2013
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#OnThisDay, 1936 — Philip Dunne on the viability of American Fascism From the forthcoming Dear California, edited by @davidkipen
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Stravinsky went home to Europe. Thomas Mann went toohome. Brecht, the same. Hardly any of the major (non-Hollywood) WWII emigres to L.A. except Schoenberg went native here. Or who am I forgetting?
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We are previewing #OnThisDay snippets from the forthcoming Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters, edited by @davidkipen Today's sobering quote comes from composer Arnold Schoenberg, to Aaron Copland Pre-order Dear California here: bookshop.org/p/books/dear-c…

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“California will do for a lovely state until God can make up something better.” — Zora Neale Hurston Isn’t that just the best? Hurston lived briefly on Cimarron in LA. Can you name either of Cimarron Street’s other literary claims to fame?
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We are celebrating summer with previews from the forthcoming Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters, edited by @davidkipen Today's first quote comes from Zora Neale Hurston #OnThisDay Pre-order Dear California here: bookshop.org/p/books/dear-c…

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We are celebrating summer with previews from the forthcoming Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters, edited by @davidkipen Today's first quote comes from Zora Neale Hurston #OnThisDay Pre-order Dear California here: bookshop.org/p/books/dear-c…
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Pssst, my Thomas Pynchon "interview" is Alta's Weekend Read! Each of you who clicks on the link will -- according to the magazine's new metrics-based remuneration -- add five minutes to my life expectancy. Weekend Read: Pynchon (Kinda) Speaks! preview.mailerlite.com/f5k8i0r7l9
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I now own a book signed by a suspected Communist, WPA Folklore Director Ben Botkin, AND by a member of the John Birch Society, Walter Knott of Knott’s Berry Farm. Kumbaya, baby!
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Think he’ll hit a dribbler?
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Hope doesn’t come naturally to journalists — or most other writers — but ⁦@RepTedLieu⁩’s new Federal Writers’ Project Act (HR 3054) actually offers some. Check out my op-ed here this morning, and come to the virtual screening tonight, thanks! usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
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Hi, please join Rep. Ted Lieu, me, the filmmakers, and maybe a special guest or two at 4pm PDT, 7pm EDT, to watch this terrific doc about the original Federal Writers’ Project. Then wipe your eyes and corral your member of Congress to co-sponsor HR 3054, the new FWP bill, thanks!
L.A. Public Library@LAPublicLibrary

In the grip of the Great Depression, men and women joined the Federal Writers' Project to document America. Join us Tuesday at 4 pm for a free virtual screening of Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story, followed by a panel discussion: lapl.me/TrtIxMs

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Amen to that! Scott’s book “Republic of Detours” is terrific — and timely, considering the 21st-Century Federal Writers' Project Act (HR 3054) now before Congress. Write or call your rep and urge them to co-sponsor, thanks!
Scott Borchert@ScottBorchert

I hope you can join @davidkipen and me tomorrow night, Tues 8/31, for a conversation on "The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Federal Writers’ Project," presented by @LivingNewDeal. 5 pm pacific / 8 pm eastern. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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"Every time you drive across L.A., or fly in or out of it, you can thank FDR and the WPA." My new piece here reclaims the New Deal idea of "public works." Please ask your rep to co-sponsor HR 3054, aka the 21st-Century Federal Writers' Project Act! kcet.org/shows/artbound…
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