Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus is author of Lipstick Traces (Harvard, 1989). His most recent books are What Nails It, part of the Yale Why I Write series (2024) and Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs (Yale, 2022). He writes the Letter from the Ether newsletter on Substack, which includes his monthly column “Real Life Rock Top 10.” A 50th anniversary edition of his Mystery Train will be published in 2025. He was born in San Francisco and lives in Oakland.
In Benjamin’s One-Way Street, the mind is constantly at play, thinking, dreaming, thinking about dreaming, free-associating, not distinguishing between the trivial and the world- historical, the modern mind trying to walk and psychoanalyze itself and the world at the same time.