→ Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (Harvard University Press, 1989, 20th anniversary edition 2009)
→ Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession (Harvard University Press, 1991)
→ Ranters & Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977–1992 (Doubleday, 1993), as In the Fascist Bathroom, Writings on Punk, 1977-1992 (Harvard, 1999)
→ The Dustbin of History (Harvard University Press, 1995)
→ Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (Henry Holt & Co., 1997), as The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (Picador, 2000, revised edition 2010)
→ Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives, (Henry Holt & Co., 2001)
→ The Manchurian Candidate (BFI Film Classics, 2002)
→ Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads (Public Affairs, 2005)
→ The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy in the American Voice (Picador, 2006)
→ When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison (Public Affairs, 2010)
→ Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010 (Public Affairs, 2011)
→ The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years (Public Affairs, 2011)
→ The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs (Yale University Press, 2014)
→ Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations (Harvard University Press, 2015)
→ Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014 (Yale University Press, 2015)
→ Rock & Roll Will Stand (Beacon Press, 1969)
→ Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island (Alfred A. Knopf, 1979)
→ Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, by Lester Bangs (Vintage Books, 1988)
→ The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad, with Sean Wilentz (W. W. Norton & Company 2004)
→ Best Music Writing 2009 (Da Capo, 2009)
→ A New Literary History of America, with Werner Sollors (Harvard/Belknap Press, 2009)
Introductions, forewords, and afterwords by Greil Marcus, listed chronologically
→ Marlene Marder, Kleenex Liliput (Nachbar der Welt Verlag–Zurich), 1986
→ Richard Meltzer, The Aesthetics of Rock (Da Capo), 1987 reissue
→ Eric Ambler, A Coffin for Dimitrios (Carroll and Graf), 1990
→ Laurence Gonzales, Jambeaux (Citadel Underground), 1990
→ Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book (Grove Press), 1993
→ Keith Carter, Heaven of Animals–Photographs (Rice University Press), 1995
→ Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death, Great Pop Things (Penguin–UK), 1997; as Great Pop Things–The Real History of Rock & Roll from Elvis to Oasis (Verse Chorus–US), 1998
→ Nick Tosches, Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story (Grove Press) 1998 edition
→ Nik Cohn, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom—L’Age d’Or de Rock (Editions Allia–Paris), 1999
→ There is No Eye/John Cohen Photographs (PowerHouse Books), 2001
→ Lee Smith, La rêve du diable (The Devil’s Dream) (Climats–Cahors), 2003
→ Constance Rourke, American Humor: A Study of the National Character (NYRB Classics), 2004
→ Bruce Conner, Mabuhay Gardens (NRW Forum–Munich), 2006
→ Luc Sante, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005 (Yeti Publishing), 2007
→ Phil Freeman (editor), Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs (Da Capo Press), 2007
→ Peter Handke, Short Letter, Long Farewell (NYRB Classics), 2009
→ Guy Debord, Panegírico (Panegyric) (Acuarela & Machado–Madrid), 2009
→ Smartass: The Music Journalism of Joel Selvin (SLG Books), 2010
→ Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues (The Nick Travers Novels) (Carrefour, Ltd.), 2011
→ Bob Dylan & Jon J. Muth, Blowin’ in the Wind (Sterling Children’s Books), 2011
→ Firesign Theatre, Marching to Shibboleth–The Big Book of Plays (Firesign Theatre Books), 2011
→ Stanley Booth, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (Cannongate–Edinburg), 2012 and (Chicago Review Press), 2014 (forthcoming)
→ Gilbert Seldes, The Stammering Century (NYRB Classics), 2012
→ Eric Lott, Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Oxford University Press), 2013
Shalom & Boker tov…has Greil Marcus ever discussed at length Shabtai Zisel / Bob Dylan’s late 1978 apostasy? Surely, the magnitude of the ontological betrayals permeates Dylan’s work, which cannot be subjected to indifference.
STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח”ם בן אברהם
Torah אלילה Yehu’di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
לחיות זמן רב ולשגשג
what on earth is this about? the guy’s a musician man, a singer.