Peter Richardson

I recently attended an event at UC Berkeley with Karen Paget, author of Patriotic Betrayal . I plan to read that book next, and I've alr...

I'm teaching my Grateful Dead course at OLLI again, this time at Sonoma State University, and Jonah Raskin covered the story for the Pr...

I came across this article in the Hartford Courant featuring Nicholas Meriwether, the founding director of the Grateful Dead Archive at th...

I had a great Friday two weeks ago. I taped an interview at KRCB with Suzanne M. Lang, did a bookstore event at Copperfield's in Sebasto...

Largehearted Boy asked me to assemble a playlist to accompany No Simple Highway . Turns out that wasn't so easy, but here's what I ...

So glad to see this: Nicholas Meriwether is now blogging on the Dead's critical reception over at Dead.net. Very grateful for the shout...

My agent, Andy Ross, quizzed me for his blog recently. You can find the interview here . Andy is also well known for owning and operating Co...

Great news that Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia have been recognized by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. But it feels a little weird that they w...

It seems unlikely that the New York Review of Books will run my recent letter to them, but here's the complete text: To the Editors: ...

Just found this exchange , a smart discussion of No Simple Highway , on Consequence of Sound . The criticisms are earned and therefore well ...