"Greil Marcus has been America's foremost expert on the subject of pop music for over three decades," wrote Chris Nelson in Seattle Weekly Online. "Author of classics such as Mystery Train and Lipstic...
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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, by Greil Marcus, Public Affairs, 283 pages, $25.Greil Marcus, writing about Sam Cooke's posthumously released single "A Change Is Gonna Come," rig...
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Justin Cartwright’s The Song Before It Is Sung (Bloomsbury, $24.95) is a many layered reimagining of the friendship between Isaiah Berlin and Adam von Trott, the “...
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"I think I'm mentioned in passing. Their entire description of what happened at the magazine is cockeyed," said the rock critic Dave Marsh last week. Mr. Marsh was speaking to The Observer about ...
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'Tis the season for budding talent-just ask Jonathan Safran Foer, whose second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin), can't be far off and won't be quietly received: The ado...
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Our culture of publicity makes it difficult to talk in negative terms about a new book without sounding dismissive or mean-spirited—all the more so when the author of the disappointment has t...
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Our culture of publicity makes it difficult to talk in negative terms about a new book without sounding dismissive or mean-spirited—all the more so when the author of the disappointment has t...
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THE PIRATE’S DILEMMA: HOW YOUTH CULTURE IS REINVENTING CAPITALISM By Matt Mason Free Press, 276 pages, $25
It took me a long time to figure out what annoyed me about Matt Mason’s new bo...
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When 64-year-old feminist writer Ellen Willis died of lung cancer on Thursday, Nov. 9, she was remembered as a journalist, professor, activist and superhuman.
“Among our circle of friends, s...
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When 64-year-old feminist writer Ellen Willis died of lung cancer on Thursday, Nov. 9, she was remembered as a journalist, professor, activist and superhuman.
“Among our circle of friends, ...
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So where do you find Truly Weird America these days? Does the “Ghost World” exist any more?
The Old, Weird America: That was the title of Greil Marcus’ admirably eccentric and il...
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40 Years Ago-and Today-Dylan Asks, 'How Does it Feel?'
