Peter Richardson

I got a little lucky last night. I knew I wanted to see 7 Walkers, Bill Kreutzmann's band featuring Papa Mali, at the Great American Mu...

Patrick Atwater's A New California Dream: Reconciling the Paradoxes of America's Golden State feels custom-made for my Humanities 4...

The good folks at Heyday Books sent along Fred Setterberg's Lunch Bucket Paradise , which I finished reading today. As the title implie...

We lost another important California writer this week: Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture . He was 77. As his ob...

The good folks at UC Press sent me Bill Sharpsteen's The Docks , an in-depth look at the Port of Los Angeles. I've been fascinated w...

I came upon the second volume of Larry McMurtry's Literary Life: A Second Memoir yesterday at Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley. This mor...

Catherine Mullholland passed away this week. Her grandfather, William Mulholland, built the Los Angeles Aqueduct and was the subject of her...

I came upon Rebecca Solnit's Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era this week. Turns out this was her first book...

Fanatical readers of this blog will recall that I edited Cannabiz , John Geluardi's book on the medical marijuana business. That snappy ...

A couple weeks ago, David Gans graciously agreed to visit our California Culture class at San Francisco State and talk about the Grateful D...