Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus
From Greil Marcus s Letter in the Ether: On Saturday, March 7, I’ll be in conversation with Daveed Diggs for an event organized by the Bay Area Book Festival and held at the California Ballroom (1736 Franklin St., Oakland). Tickets are available here. From the Eventbrite page: Join legendary music critic and cultural historian Greil Marcus [ ]
Greil Marcus s Mystery Train turned 50 in 2025, resulting in a new, updated edition (with fully updated discographies and new introductions from Dwight Garner and Greil himself), as well as several interviews and reviews. Some of these links are paywalled. (If you know of anything missed here, drop a comment and it will be added [ ]
British film critic David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus on the occasion of his recent book, Why I Write. Courtesy of Yale University Press.
Steve Wasserman and I go back. In 1971 he was a student in the American Studies honors seminar I was teaching, or faking, at Berkeley. In 1979, when he was an Op Ed editor at the Los Angeles Times, he asked me to write a premature obituary for John Wayne, which, as it happens, was the right [ ]
From the Whitney Museum of Modern Art: On the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith, we spoke to Greil Marcus about the reverberations felt around the world after the 1952 release of Harry Smith s Anthology of American Folk Music. It was a sensibility this set that Harry Smith created that was [ ]
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On September 20, Greil Marcus delivered the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture, “Why I Write.” Greil is introduced by writer and black studies scholar, Daphne Brooks.
On August 2 at 7 PM at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore at 2904 College Avenue in Berkeley, Greil Marcus will be in conversation with the director and screenwriter Henry Bean about the new edition of his novel The Nenoquich, originally published in 1982 as False Match. (Further details about the event are here.)
Taking place on June 3 at the University of Tulsa Greil Marcus will return to deliver a keynote address titled “The Only Thing Missing Was Gloria Grahame: Noir Tones in 21st-Century Dylan.” This original work promises to offer new insight into Dylan’s extraordinary recent work and the surprising cinematic turns it takes in “The [ ]
Dean s Speaker Series: A conversation with Jann Wenner and Greil Marcus January 24, 6-7 PM PST, with audience Q A to follow. Haas School of Business Speaker Forum, Berkeley details here.