
Greil Marcus
Author · 24 books
Greil Marcus (born June 19, 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a broader framework of culture and politics. In recent years he has taught at Berkeley, Princeton, Minnesota, NYU, and the New School in New York. He lives in Oakland, California.
Books

Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
2005

The Dustbin of History
1995

Real Life Rock
The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
2015

A New Literary History of America
2009

Stranded
Rock and Roll for a Desert Island
1979

The Old, Weird America
The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
1997

Best Music Writing 2009
2009

Dead Elvis
A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
1991

De duivel in vermomming
zeven essays over popmuziek
1994

Under the Red White and Blue
Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
2020

Lipstick Traces
A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
1989

Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus
Writings 1968-2010
2010

In the Fascist Bathroom
1993

The Manchurian Candidate
2002

There Is No Eye
John Cohen Photographs
2001

The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
2014

Double Trouble
Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives
2000

When That Rough God Goes Riding
Listening to Van Morrison
2010

What Nails It
2024

Folk Music
A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
2022

Mystery Train
Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music
1975

The Shape of Things to Come
Prophecy and the American Voice
2006

The Doors
A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
2011

Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations
2015