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Take Two

Reading by Moonlight with David Kipen

By Take Two Staff
Published Aug 8, 2014
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.
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John Rabe
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Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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Reading by Moonlight with David Kipen

Our regular book critic and literary contributor David Kipen joins us once in a full moon for his roundup of bibliocentric events: Reading by Moonlight.

He's the founder of the lending library, Libros Schmibros, in Boyle Heights, which celebrates its fourth birthday Aug. 10.

This lunar cycle Kipen recommends:

  • Midnight release party for Haruki Murakami's new novel, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," at Skylight Books in Los Feliz
  • Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide, releases September 3
  • August 26 centennial birthday for Argentine writer Julio Cortázar

Hear David Kipen read Cortázar's extremely short one-page story, "A Continuity of Parks" from the collection, "Blow Up and Other Stories":