Twain Conversationalist: David Kipen

David Kipen served as Director of the Literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts between 2005-2009. A film and book critic, he was previously books editor of The San Francisco Chronicle and is author of The Schreiber Theory: 
A Radical Rewrite of American Film History (Melville Manifestos, 2006). Most recently David opened a used bookstore and lending library in Boyle Heights called Libros Schmibros.