Peter Richardson

I'll be at Black Oak Books tonight (1491 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley) at 7:30 along with Peter Schrag and Ethan Rarick. Peter has a new boo...

Irving Louis Horowitz, professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers, has weighed in on American Prophet and Victor Navasky's A Matter of ...

I'm pretty sure Carey McWilliams would be speaking out against the Iraq war, among other things, and the constellation of deceptions and...

The L.A. Times review drew an email from Stephen Cooper, who wrote Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante (North Point Press, 2000)--highl...

...with Kate Julian's review of American Prophet in the Los Angeles Times . She really put her finger on McWilliams's unique gift a...

So the big news this week is that the Los Angeles Times will review American Prophet on Sunday, March 12. That's fitting for all kinds o...

PoliPointPress is having a two-day retreat this week to talk about our goals. When I started at P3 as editorial director almost a year ago,...

I took a couple of hours out of the mini-book tour to take in a movie ( Match Point ) in Santa Monica with Adrian Maher. Adrian hosted me w...

I leave tomorrow for Los Angeles and the All Things McWilliams book tour. Monday I'll be at Cal State Northridge, courtesy of Rudy Acuna...

Last May I participated in a great conference at UCLA on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles. If these eve...