Peter Richardson

I was delighted to review Don Armstrong's new Ralph Gleason bio for Alta . Along with other elders like Bill Graham and Tom Donahue, Gl...

Thanks again to all who attended the City Lights launch party with David Talbot. Not long ago, I was wondering whether or not to do this pro...

Bob Scheer and I chatted about Hunter Thompson for his KCRW podcast . Happily, Bob brought his vast experience to bear on the topic. He and ...

Three projects I'm involved with came to fruition this week. Though the topics are very different, all three are connected to my teachin...

I finally got around to John Fogerty's memoir, Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music (2015). As an El Cerrito native, I found the first part...

The San Francisco Chronicle ran my review of Ransoming Pagan Babies: The Selected Writings of Warren Hinckle . I worked hard to keep it un...

A few years ago, I entertained the idea of writing a book about Rolling Stone magazine. I contacted Jann Wenner, who said he was working wi...

The communications folks at SF State have launched a series on the Summer of Love , with special emphasis on the role of the campus, alumni,...

I got a little love from David Talbot yesterday. In his Sunday column for the San Francisco Chronicle , I credited Cherilyn Parsons for cre...

On Wednesday, August 24, I learned that Warren Hinckle's death was imminent. The former editor of Ramparts magazine had been ailing for...

I recently attended an event at UC Berkeley with Karen Paget, author of Patriotic Betrayal . I plan to read that book next, and I've alr...

Lots of talk, of course, about Mitt Romney's 47% speech, and now the inside-baseball stories are starting to come out. The New York Time...

My review of Seth Rosenfeld's book, Subversives , ran on Truthdig last week and received a fair amount of traffic. As it turns out, So...

Last week I heard from Sean Stewart, the editor of a new book on the sixties underground press called On the Ground . It joins John McMilli...

Dugald Stermer, path-breaking art director of Ramparts magazine, died yesterday after a long illness. He was 74. I got the call last night ...

I traveled to San Antonio for a popular culture conference last week, but the only sessions I saw were on the Grateful Dead--more than a doz...

After the Ramparts book came out, I developed a list of high-profile ways that the magazine changed America, as per my subtitle. The best ...

I just read a review of A Bomb in Every Issue published in The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture . The reviewer, a gradu...

A while back I was asked to help behind the scenes (way behind the scenes!) with an upcoming museum exhibition on the year 1968. The Oaklan...

This week I had the pleasure of hearing from Baron Wolman, who contributed many key photographs to Ramparts . He took the Oakland 7 photo I ...