Peter Richardson

I found out yesterday that Booklist will run a review of No Simple Highway in its December issue. Here's a sneak peek. Although the ...

There's nothing new about what my dissertation director used to call "contempt prior to investigation," which he considered an...

I attended the Grateful Dead conference ("So Many Roads: The World in the Grateful Dead") yesterday at San Jose State University a...

"So Many Roads: The World in the Grateful Dead" starts tomorrow night at San Jose State University. I'll miss the opening beca...

I live in Richmond, just a few miles north of Berkeley. Its progressive City Council has received a fair amount of national coverage recentl...

David Gans came by the Freight & Salvage yesterday and dropped some serious Grateful Dead knowledge on us. Between the books, articles, ...

Blair Jackson visited our Grateful Dead course yesterday and shared his vast knowledge of the band and its history. Aficionados will recall ...

Rosie McGee shared her photographs and memories at the Freight & Salvage this week. Truly illuminating, and a great counterpoint to Nick...

The Grateful Dead class got off to a great start at the Freight & Salvage last week. Nick Meriwether, Grateful Dead Archivist at UC Sant...

So grateful to Berkeleyside , the award-winning news site, for running a piece on my Grateful Dead course at UC Berkeley's Osher Lifelo...