Peter Richardson

Stray Thoughts on California Culture

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Art of the Dead

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I just got my copy of Philip Cushway's Art of the Dead (reading line: A Celebration of the Artists Behind the American Rock Poster Move...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Mother Jones's Mitt Romney Story

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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...

West of Eden

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I've been dipping in and out of a book I received from PM Press earlier this year called West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern C...
Sunday, September 09, 2012

Bear House

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I took a small contingent by 6024 Ascot in Montclair today. Turns out the house, which was owned by Owsley Stanley, can be had for a mere ...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

RNC Redux

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You may have seen the story out of the Republican National Convention. Two RNC attendees were ejected after throwing nuts at a black CNN c...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Season of the Witch

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I just finished reading David Talbot's Season of the Witch , which the good folks at Free Press sent along at my request. I received it ...
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Subversives ... and Richard Aoki

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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...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Lincoln Steffens

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I just finished reading Peter Hartshorn's I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens . I was drawn to it by my interest in Carey...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

BANG!

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Just got my third call this week on behalf of the Bay Area News Group. Do yourself a big favor. Stay away from these people. I wanted to s...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Philip Fradkin RIP

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I learned today that Philip Fradkin passed away. I knew he was ill because I stood in for him at a recent awards conference. (Two of his UC...
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Peter Richardson
I've written critically acclaimed books about Hunter S. Thompson, the Grateful Dead, Ramparts magazine, and Carey McWilliams. My essays have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Literary Hub, and many other outlets. I also like to review books and received the National Entertainment Journalism Award for Online Criticism in 2013. From 2006 to 2023, I taught at San Francisco State University. Before that, I was an English professor at the University of North Texas. Along the way, I also worked as an editor at the University of California Press, PoliPoint Press, the Public Policy Institute of California, and Harper & Row, Publishers. Back in the days of yore, I earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
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