Writer, editor & teacher, specializing in California and the American West.
San Franciso California
Joined December 2009
- Tweets1.5K
- Following2.4K
- Followers949
- Likes8.6K
Peter Fish retweeted
The Trump administration plans to break ground within two weeks on a 250-foot triumphal arch just beyond the gates of Arlington National Cemetery.
Critics say it would disrupt historic sightlines intended to symbolize the nation’s reconciliation after the Civil War.
@GeoffRBennett has more.
Peter Fish retweeted
A Growing Number of Election Deniers Hold Key Local Roles in Midterms nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/po…
Peter Fish retweeted
Which of these films is set during World War II???
A: Gallipoli
B: Lawrence of Arabia
C: All Quiet on the Western Front
D: The Great Escape
Peter Fish retweeted
My beautiful sister Kate left this world this week. She was my North star, the origin of everything good about me. If you didn’t know her, you surely would have loved her. Those who did know her are forever changed. obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie…
Peter Fish retweeted
The drive-in filled a void before it morphed into something else tallahassee.com/story/entert…
Peter Fish retweeted
Andrew Schulz: “I didn’t know that this was possible to happen in the United States of America. What we’ve seen ICE doing entering homes without warrants, it’s unconstitutional. When you’re willing to shred the Constitution to preserve your ideas of what should happen, it is incredibly un-American. I just think it’s an important thing to speak out against, I think it’s horrific”
Peter Fish retweeted
This is a great book and, mostly for the better, barely about Caesar. It’s about early egalitarian movements and how Roman elites violently blocked redistribution, justifying it as a defense of republican order. Elites haven’t changed much. RIP Michael Parenti.
Terrific story by Rachel Levin about a cranky SF culinary legend
SF's cantankerous queen of used Le Creusets has been threatening to quit Cookin’ for years. But this time — on New Year’s Day — she is closing for real.
📝: Rachel Levin sfstandard.com/2025/12/30/co…
Peter Fish retweeted
🚨Do you think Trump was involved in crimes committed by Epstein?🚨
🟢 Yes - 46%
🔴 No - 30%
YouGov
12/22
Peter Fish retweeted
Edition #83 features great long reads from:
@ScribblerSix @jtes @jwherrman @JenSeniorNY @tomasjweber @ronenbergman @AlyssaAges @debvankin @PeterAFish
longformprofiles.substack.co…
Peter Fish retweeted
"I want what only the best road trips give you: velocity and transcendence." — @PeterAFish hits the highway for @altajournal
altaonline.com/dispatches/a6…
In his ambitious, sprawling, deeply reported American Oasis, Kyle Paoletta does a superb job of showing how the booming cities of the desert southwest may represent the American future. My review in @SFC_Datebook:
datebook.sfchronicle.com/boo…
Claus Spreckels made a fortune off California sugar beets and Hawaiian sugar cane. Then it all came undone. My review of Sandra E. Bonura’s richly detailed “The Sugar King of California” in @SFC_Datebook
datebook.sfchronicle.com/boo…
Robert Aquinas McNally explores John Muir’s complicated legacy in Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness. My review in @SFC_Datebook
datebook.sfchronicle.com/boo…
The @SFC_Datebook asked its book reviewers to name their favorite titles of 2023. Mine: Melissa L. Sevigny's epic Brave the Wild River, and Rosanna Xia's essential-for-Californians, California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline.
datebook.sfchronicle.com/boo…
Today, Point Reyes National Seashore has the ethereal beauty that inspires poets. But it almost had freeways and shopping centers. How that didn’t happen is explored in Gerald Felix Warburg’s astute “Saving Point Reyes.” My review in @SFC_Datebook datebook.sfchronicle.com/boo…
The California coast may be drowned by a rising Pacific brought on by climate change. In her compelling, deeply reported California Against the Sea Rosanna Xia examines the crisis. My review in @SFC_Datebook
datebook.sfchronicle.com/boo…
Peter Fish retweeted
Something cool I noticed >>
Just this week, three major gov’t actions (a House bill, a Senate investigation, and an Exec Branch regulation) grew out of different pieces of investigative journalism by @NBCNews and @CNN.
Reporting gets results. wakeuptopolitics.com/septemb…