Flog & Blog

Even the Director of Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts has to hit the road if he wants to sell books. And it is Oscar week, after all. So David Kipen, the former Book Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and couch-sitter on "The Today Show," will begin later this morning at KQED in San Francisco and end up—four book signings and four hundred miles later—at Book Soup in West Hollywood at 7 pm. Along the way, the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History (Melville House Publishing) will post his bookstore-and-highway observations exclusively here at LA Observed. Kipen is the first guest-blogger ever at LAO, so we're keeping the rules simple: he can say whatever he wants, unedited and unfiltered (because we know where to find him.) His dispatches are due to begin arriving some time after 11 am. Stay tuned, as they say.