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Reading by Moonlight: The latest in literature
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Oct 8, 2014
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Reading by Moonlight: The latest in literature
David Kipen, KPCC literary contributor and founder of the lending library Libros Schmibros in Boyle Heights, checks in for his latest "Reading by Moonlight" segment.
David Kipen, founder of Libros Schmibros in Boyle Heights, perusing one of the books that shaped Mars in pop culture and lit.
David Kipen, founder of Libros Schmibros in Boyle Heights, perusing one of the books that shaped Mars in pop culture and lit.
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David Kipen, KPCC literary contributor and founder of the lending library Libros Schmibros in Boyle Heights, checks in for his latest "Reading by Moonlight" segment.

Look up in the sky - do you see that full moon? - that means it's time to check in with David Kipen.

He's KPCC's literary contributor and the founder of the lending library Libros Schmibros in Boyle Heights.

He joins Take Two not once in a blue moon but every full moon for his regular segment, Reading by Moonlight. 

You can see the author from today's reading, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o read from his own work during a recent 'Humanities in Circulation' panel:

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o reads from his work