Meant to Write This Sooner
Posted on January 12th, 2010 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Congrats to Harvard prof Werner Sollors, whose “A New Literary History of America“—coedited with rock critic Greil Marcus—was named by Entertainment Weekly one of 2009’s best books.
Said EW,
A daring work of alternative scholarship disguised as a collection of essays. This thousand-plus-page history—with a roll call of contributors ranging from Ishmael Reed writing about Mark Twain to Mary Gaitskill on Norman Mailer—is, in a word, awesome….
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1/12/2023 3:41 pm
Hear, hear! Good work, Werner (and Greil).
1/12/2023 6:24 pm
Ditto to Judith’s. Greil is one of the very best critics, not just of rock, but all sorts of Americana, and the collaboration with Werner was timely.