David Perlis

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David Perlis is a writer, musician, and filmmaker from Marin County, California. For nearly a decade he co-hosted the late night talk show Night People on WFMU. His first book, Morning in Marin: Zen, Drugs, and Ewoks on the California Coast is published by Heyday Books.

David Perlis: Everything You Love Is from Marin
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Oct. 4, 2026

David Perlis: Everything You Love Is from Marin

The Marin-born author and former WFMU host joins us to discuss 'Morning in Marin,' his history of how Alan Watts, the Grateful Dead, George Lucas, and Philip K. Dick turned one county north of the Golden Gate into a center of postwar American culture.
Guest: David Perlis
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