What Nails It by Greil Marcus

What Nails It by Greil Marcus

From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art

Praise for Greil Marcus:
 
“Greil Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it”—David Kerby, Washington Post
 
“Greil Marcus’s critical writings about history, films, books, musicians, and television movies . . . are always filled with tremendous passion for American popular culture.”—Christine Schwartz Hartley, New York Times Book Review
 
“[Marcus’s] work is very likely the most imaginative criticism being done, but it’s more than that: It’s a light in dark times.”—Lucy Sante, New York
 
“Reading Mr. Marcus at his best—on Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Sly Stone, the Band, Sleater-Kinney, Dock Boggs or Randy Newman, to name just a few of his obsessions over the years—is like watching a surfer glide shakily down the wall of an 80-foot wave, disappear under a curl for a deathly eternity, then soar out the other end. You practically feel like applauding. . . . You want to hear what he hears.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times
 
“[Marcus is] probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson.”—D. D. Guttenplan, London Review of Books
 
“No writer puts you inside the experience of music the way Greil Marcus does. His descriptions of songs, especially, unfold like thrillers or romantic rhapsodies, sucking you in and revealing aspects of each beat or vocal trill that you’d never have noticed on your own. . . . The most esteemed music writer of his generation.”—Anna Powers, NPR.com

Greil Marcus is the author of many books, from Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ’n’ Roll Music in 1975 to Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs in 2022. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America (2009).

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ISBN 13	9780300272451
ISBN 10	0300272456
Title	What Nails It
Author	Greil Marcus
Series	Why I Write
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2024-10-22
Number of pages	104
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