David Kipen

Position a chair under the doorway and get comfortable!

Stanford Press @stanfordpress

We are previewing #OnThisDay snippets from the forthcoming Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters, edited by @davidkipen. For the last day of July we have a quote from Archduke Ludwig Louis Salvator #California #CaliforniaHistory https://t.co/RqXX6DvPlS

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?

Stanford Press @stanfordpress

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: https://t.co/XiKZyzJ6tj… https://t.co/z8ecUSnk46

“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?

Stanford Press @stanfordpress

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: https://t.co/XiKZyzJ6tj https://t.co/pqQAznY6nZ

RT @stanfordpress: We are celebrating summer with previews from the forthcoming Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters, e…

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! https://t.co/03tuRgYmcf

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If Oscar-nominated filmmakers are so upset about shoving categories like Editing and Original Score into an off-camera pre-show, why don’t they just skip the red carpet and #GoInsideEarly? https://t.co/wqREQA3lZo

Hemingway, Faulkner Stripped of Nobel Prizes After Testing Positive for Performance-Enhancing Drug https://t.co/0kYjURcHV4

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! https://t.co/t3psblKL5B

Think he’ll hit a dribbler? https://t.co/hvaW4FThYl

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! https://t.co/XvLmEqxn5v

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: https://t.co/sBhSxQrptC https://t.co/3otnPhfCPE

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. https://t.co/EVQqnhfnqG

My union, @UCAFT, just endorsed the 21st-Century Federal Writers' Project Act (HR 3054). Call or email your rep in Congress and help reintroduce America to itself, thanks!

University Council - AFT @UCAFT

Today we submitted a letter in support of #HR3054 to the @EdLaborCmte and Chairman @BobbyScott. We wholeheartedly support the 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project Act and thank Congressman @tedlieu for authoring this bill. #FederalWritersProject

Please ask your rep to consider co-sponsoring HR 3054, aka the 21st-Century Federal Writers' Project Act! "FDR never heard of infrastructure." My new piece here helps reclaim the New Deal idea of "public works." https://t.co/uUuD21QvZY #hr3054 #21fwp #federalwritersprojectact

"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! https://t.co/uUuD21QvZY

PressWatch is right again. Please call, write or tweet at your senator/rep to co-sponsor H.R. 3054, the 21st-Century Federal Writers’ Project Act, thanks!

Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) @froomkin

The Depression-era Federal Writers’ Project created jobs, fought disinformation, and gave voice to the voiceless. We need all of the above now more than ever. By @davidkipen https://t.co/uDr6E0wrwR