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‘The complexities of loving one’s sometimes hateful country’ (Philip Roth, 1933-2018)
From a roundup of reactions to Philip Roth’s death at the San Francisco Chronicle. See more Greil Marcus writings on Philip Roth here.
Ask Greil (2022)
Ask Greil at Substack (2022 – ) Archives: 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2021 Submit a question 11/25/22 First, thank you for the depth and clarity of your writing. It is inspiring. A day or two ago I decided to revisit Down in the Groove as though it was a new Bootleg Series volume with […]
Ask Greil (2020)
Ask Greil (current/submit a question) Archives: 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2021 12/28/20 I read your book Mystery Train many years ago and it has been largely responsible for me spending big chunks of my spare time over the last 25 years listening to and researching the Stagger Lee ballad and thinking/theorizing about its meaning. I’ve […]
Ask Greil (2018)
Ask Greil (current/submit a question) Archives: 2016; 2017; 2019; 2020; 2021 12/31/18 The fact that the Web exists at all is a beautiful, if imperfect, liberal ideal. People may waste time on it but people have saved thousands of hours using, for example, Wikipedia as a starting point for investigating any number of subjects. – […]