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Charles Bukowski’s Lush Life: “Post Office” and the Utopian Impulse
Half a century after publication, Bukowski’s novel remains a protean depiction of Los Angeles’s beauty and squalor.
Peter Richardson
Peter Richardson teaches humanities and American Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead (2015); A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America (2009); and American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams (2005). He received the National Entertainment Journalism Award for Online Criticism in 2013.
Articles
Strange Rumblings: The Prickly but Productive Friendship Between Hunter Thompson and Oscar Acosta
Hunter S. Thompson wrote cannonball prose, and it led to the wreckage of a friendship.
Ravine Politics: How Dodger Stadium Defined Los Angeles
Peter Richardson tours the “City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles” by Jerald Podair.
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