Peter Richardson

Just finished reading Tere Tereba's Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Most Notorious Mobster (ECW Press). It filled a gap...

Just finished reading Nicholas Schou's Orange Sunshine , which tells the fantastical story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a hippie ...

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 attended an event at Heyday Books on Sunday and was treated to an unusually interesting couple of hours. About fifty of us squeezed into ...

I had the pleasure of meeting Barry Barnes at the American Culture Association meeting in San Antonio this year. Fanatical readers of this ...

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...