Jonathan Peters is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles, California. He hails from Silver Spring, Maryland and graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in history. He is a columnist at "inReads.com":http://www.inreads.com/. He has also written for Next Step Magazine, Working World, Current, The Ann Arbor News, and other publications. You can catch his blog at: "http://alternatewrites.com/":http://alternatewrites.com/, or "@jonpeters87":https://twitter.com/jonpeters87 on Twitter.