Jonah RaskinA biographer, cultural historian, book and restaurant reviewer and a performance poet, Raskin has authored books about organic farming, British literature and the British Empire, American literature and the wilderness and edited a collection of Jack ondon's essays, titled The Radical Jack London. Born in New York, raised on Long Island and a longtime Californian, he has taught at Winston-Salem State in North Carolina, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Sonoma State University where he chaired the communication studies department and offered courses on media law, marketing and coordinated the student internship program. A Fulbright professor at two Belgian universities, in Ghent and Antwerp, he has written for The Nation, The LA Times, The SF Chronicle, the International Herald Tribune, the North Bay Bohemian and elsewhere. He created the characters and co-authored the story for the Hollywood feature film, Homegrown. He currently writes for Counterpunch and the Anderson Valley Advertiser and edits the newsletter for the residents at The Carlisle, a senior living facility in San Francisco. Read More Read Less