KevinRoderick.com

Welcome

You have reached the online home of author, editor and journalist Kevin Roderick.

You can find out here about my books, recent articles and current projects. There is a brief bio and a selection of writing and reportage that has appeared in Los Angeles Magazine, Smithsonian, the Los Angeles Times and other publications. There are also links to L.A. Observed, my daily blog on Los Angeles media, politics and books.

For reasons that aren't obvious to me, the most popular pages here are old stories on the lore of executions at San Quentin state prison and the late rock sensation Ritchie Valens. If that's why you came, here are direct links to Legends of the San Quentin Gas Chamber and Ritchie Valens' Star Burned Brightly for Pacoima. Enjoy.