Welcome to the online home of Richard Speer, author of Matt Lamb:  The Art of Success (John Wiley & Sons), numerous short stories, and a forthcoming literary novel.  Richard's articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Opera News, The Sacramento News & Review, GLASS Quarterly, and Digital Photo Pro.  He is a contributing editor at Art, Ltd., editor of the Matt Lamb Blog, and visual arts critic/Arts & Culture writer at Willamette Week, the Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly in Portland, Oregon.  As a critic-at-large for ARTnews, he has reviewed shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palm Desert, Miami, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Portland.  He has written catalogue essays about the work of some of the world's foremost contemporary artists, as well as cultural commentary and op-ed pieces on a wide variety of topics.  Click here for online résumé.  A former TV news reporter now working in print, Richard has earned top accolades from The Associated Press and The Society of Professional Journalists for his feature stories, which have included interviews/profiles of Philip Glass, Luciano Pavarotti, Camille Paglia, Chuck Palahniuk, and Barbara Branden.  He lectures on cultural issues and has appeared as a talk radio guest on KRLA (Los Angeles), WJR (Detroit), KPAM (Portland), KBOO (Portland), and WUCF (Orlando).  If you are bored by such achievements and would rather see Richard and his out-of-control friends disturbing the peace in Portland, Oregon, then click here, you shameless philistine.  To see photographs of Richard chillin' with VIP's, click here.  To see photographs taken by Richard, click here.  To email Richard, click here.