Peter Richardson

Stray Thoughts on California Culture

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Daniel de Visé on "Savage Journey"

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I appreciated this review of Savage Journey , which appeared in the Washington Indepedent Review of Books . Daniel de Visé zeroes in on the...
Monday, March 07, 2022

Charles Bukowski's "Post Office" at 50

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I wrote an essay about Charles Bukowski's Post Office for the Los Angeles Review of Books . Don't let the squalor fool you; this n...
Friday, March 04, 2022

TLS Brief Review of Savage Journey

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Grateful for the short, sweet review by Matt Sturrock in the Times Literary Supplement . This one is so short I've included it below. ...

Wall Street Journal Review of "Savage Journey"

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I was gratified to see Benjamin Shull's review of Savage Journey in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. I can't recall any reviews...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Hunter Thompson Chatter at The Nation Podcast and Copperfield's

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Delighted to chat about Hunter Thompson with Jon Wiener on The Nation magazine's podcast, "Start Making Sense." John Nichols...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Larry McMurtry and Lonesome Dove

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I'm rereading Larry McMurtry's Literary Life . I forgot that the Lonesome Dove Baptist Church in Ponder, TX, furnished the title for...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Jann Wenner, Super Editor

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"Savage Journey" describes the lengths to which HST's editors went to assemble and polish his articles and books. The "Ro...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Hunter Thompson Chat on KPFA

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I was delighted to appear on KPFA's "Letters and Politics" with Mitch Jeserich. Long-time listener, first-time guest. Fana...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

Tom Richards on Hunter Thompson

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Another smart review of Savage Journey , this one from Tom Richards in the Houston Press . He's clearly an aficionado. Check it out, I ...
Wednesday, February 02, 2022

Jonah Raskin on Savage Journey

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Welcome remarks from Jonah Raskin, and not only about the book. (He's quite right, for example, that Didion could be as scathing in her...
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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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