David Kipen

Biography

David Kipen is the founder of Libros Schmibros, a Southern California nonprofit lending library and used bookshop. He is a regular correspondent for KPCC-FM, and is the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History (Melville House, 2006). He is the former director of literature grants and the Big Read program at the National Endowment for the Arts.

See Work

PROFILES / Winter 2013

Tinker Tailor Soldier Schreiber

By David Kipen

Dehn (pronounced “Dane”) resurrected or reinvented at least three genres given up for dead at the time: the British mystery, the Shakespeare adaptation, and the spy film. He understood a thing or two about espionage, having taught and then...

ARTICLES

The Gay Godfather of James Bond

By David Kipen

Born a hundred years ago today, the poet and critic Paul Dehn trained spies, won an Oscar and, notwithstanding his long, loving co-habitation with another man, helped create the epitome of 20th-century heterosexual virility—yet even Google...