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OCT 29, 2009
Greil Marcus BOOKS / READING
Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus brought serious intellectual ambition to rock-and-roll criticism—he also spawned a million pretentious rock critics. But you have to admire the ambition of Marcus's new book. In over a thousand pages, A New Literary History of America attempts to do for American history what Marcus did for rock criticism. Pieces by Jonathan Lethem and Sarah Vowell and other literary geniuses bring vivid life to American history (Edison! Tarzan! Alcoholics Anonymous!), with Marcus's unparalleled critical smarts nimbly guiding the whole monstrous book. (Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave, 624-6600. 7 pm, free.) by It's Paul Constant's Birthday, Everybody!!!

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Gurldoggie 1
Looking forward to this one. Marcus is one hell of a critic, and this project puts LOTS of his past preoccupations into perspective. As far as I can make sense of his aesthetic, Rock and Roll IS literature, which IS culture, which IS history. He's bringing it all full circle, linking glosses on American pop preoccupations with a grand overview of our society. Righteous.
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