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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Kevin Starr: The Examiner Years

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Boom California just published a piece I wrote about Kevin Starr's work as a columnist at the San Francisco Examiner . This wasn't...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Pet Peeve Department

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It's hard to footnote books accurately, but I have no patience for authors who swipe my carefully sourced quotations without attribution...
Friday, January 25, 2019

The Return of C-Mac

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The University of California Press has published a paperback edition of my Carey McWilliams biography--this time with a fabulous foreword by...

Zodiac Killer Podcast

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Some far-flung friends and former students have contacted me after listening to "Monster: The Zodiac Killer." It's a 15-part ...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Media Roundup

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Deutschlandfunk Kultur interviewed me about Bay Area student protests in the 1960s. Here's the radio piece and website summary ; Scott S...
Monday, November 05, 2018

Review of Timothy Denevi's "Freak Kingdom"

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Truthdig posted my review of Timothy Denevi's new book on Hunter Thompson. Essentially, Denevi follows Thompson's personal and prof...
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Sunday, September 16, 2018

Miriam Pawel's "The Browns of California"

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I asked to review Miriam Pawel's The Browns of California and am glad I did. My review ran in the San Francisco Chronicle (Datebook s...
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Thursday, August 09, 2018

Review of Gary Krist's "The Mirage Factory"

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I'm always interested in popular histories of Los Angeles, and Gary Krist's new one caught my eye. He tells the stories of three imp...
Sunday, July 08, 2018

Review of Barlow's "Mother American Night"

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Truthdig just ran my review of John Perry Barlow's memoir, Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times . My interest in the Grateful ...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Ransoming Pagan Babies

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The San Francisco Chronicle ran my review of Ransoming Pagan Babies: The Selected Writings of Warren Hinckle . I worked hard to keep it un...