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Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus has written many books, including Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces, The Old, Weird America, and The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America. He was born in the Middle West, in San Francisco and lives in Oakland, CA.


Greil Marcus on Gatsby: A Blues Fable of the Great Depression

Reconsidering the American Myth of a Distant Paradise
April 30, 2020  By Greil Marcus
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