Peter Richardson teaches humanities and American studies at San Francisco State University and serve as book review editor at The National Memo. His publications include "No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead" (St. Martin's Press, 2015), "A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America" (The New Press, 2009), and "American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams" (University of Michigan Press, 2005). He received the National Entertainment Journalism Award for Online Criticism in 2013.