Peter Richardson

Gustavo Arellano, best known as the author of Ask a Mexican! , has a piece today in the Los Angeles Times on day laborers in Orange County. ...

I'm reading Steve Martin's memoir, which has already produced two points of contact with this blog's fixations. The first is Ma...

This blog's focus on California culture risks a serious misunderstanding: namely, that I'm not a man of the world. Nothing could be ...

After cranking out my Willie Brown post, I realized I had to stop by the House of Prime Rib on Van Ness. It's like a time capsule, the ...

David Ulin, book review editor of the Los Angeles Times , takes a hard look at Charles Bukowski's poetry and legacy today. His critical ...

I attended a book party last night for Christine Pelosi's Campaign Boot Camp at The Crossroads Cafe, the Delancey Street Foundation boo...

I came upon this news item in the San Francisco Chronicle : Willie Brown is setting up a leadership center at San Francisco State Universit...

Fanatical readers of this blog will recall my earlier mentions of Judith Freeman's new book about Raymond and Cissy Chandler. I bring i...

We watched Oliver Stone's The Doors in class this week--an excessive movie about excess. The first part of the movie corresponds to Car...

My class at San Francisco State finished reading John Fante's Full of Life last week. The students seemed to like it a lot--a better re...