Peter Richardson

I finally got around to John Fogerty's memoir, Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music (2015). As an El Cerrito native, I found the first part...

I've been brooding over the San Francisco school board's unanimous decision to destroy Victor Arnautoff's murals. What kind of e...

Once again, Jane Ciabattari brings her three-dot expertise to her coverage of the Bay Area Book Festival coverage for LitHub. I'm espec...

Another beautiful day in Berkeley for the Bay Area Book Festival. The session I moderated on the Brown family (Jerry, Pat, etc.) went swimmi...

Today I learned that The Nation podcast, "Start Making Sense," will post their interview with me about Carey McWilliams. I really ...

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

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

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

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

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