Greil Marcus, editor of A New Literary History of America, in conversation with Richard Hutson, David Thomson and Ishmael Reed

Join us at our Solano store for a discussion of A New Literary History of America. We are honored to host editor Greil Marcus in conversation with Richard Hutson, David Thomson and Ishmael Reed.

A New Literary History of America (Hardcover)

By Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors

$49.95

ISBN-13: 9780674035942
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Published: Belknap Press, 9/2009

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With A New Literary History of America, author Greil Marcus (Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces, The Shape of Things to Come) has assembled between covers a grand symposium. Beginning with the first time the word America appears on a map, and culminating with the election of Barack Obama, this compulsively readable anthology offers great writers interpreting the books, music, films, and historical moments that have shaped our nation. Democratic in its very form, this cornucopia of ideas becomes, like Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, as important and essential as what it celebrates. 

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