Event

Peter Richardson: No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead

Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's Books

Monday, February 29, 2016
7:30pm

Seating Area opens at 6:30pm
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

The Grateful Dead, America's most popular touring band for three decades, spent time reading, hanging out, and practicing at Kepler's Books and now Peter Richardson, author of No Simple Highway, brings to Kepler's new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives. Richardson vividly recounts the Dead's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the Acid Tests to the band's formation of their own record label to their massive late career success, while probing the riddle of the Dead's vast and durable appeal.

Join us for a celebration of the Grateful Dead and help us remember how their three powerful utopian ideals - for ecstasy, mobility, and community, struck deep chords with two generations of American youth and continues today.

Peter Richardson is an author and lecturer in the humanities department at San Francisco State University and outgoing chair of the California Studies Association. Before that, he was an editor at the Public Policy Institute of California, a think-tank based in San Francisco; a tenured English professor at the University of North Texas; and an acquisitions editor at Harper & Row, Publishers. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco. His previous book, A Bomb in Every Issue, recounts the rise and fall of Ramparts magazine.

This event is free but please register here.