Our first stop in Oregon was Eugene, home to the University or Oregon, Monthly Review's editor John Foster, MR editorial board member Brett Clark, and Peter Ogura's amazingly compact but well-stocked Black Sun Books. We…
Los Angeles
We arrived in Los Angeles late morning on May 21. I was to be on the Tavis Smiley Public Television show, and we were scheduled to do the taping at 1:30. I had made arrangements…