Sept. 24, 2020 2:48 PM PT Eighty-five years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt saved American writers by creating a federal government project to provide jobs for out-of-work writers

during the great depression. Now, writers across the US are facing Depression-era unemployment levels again. Will history repeat itself? Could another project come to pass? LA Times

critic-at-large and UCLA professor David Kipen wrote about that very question and joined us, along with a recent UCLA graduate, Kennedy Hill.