Praise for When That Rough God Goes Riding “Writing about the songs of Van Morrison is rightly seen as something of a paradox.
“Superbly fulfills criticism’s primary function: It sends you for the first or 100th time to the works of art on which it muses, better equipped to experience what’s always been there.” -Jon Re pp, Clevel and Pl ain-Dealerĩ781586489526-text_Layout 1 1/18/11 10:18 AM Page i c o m S i g n u p f o r o u r n e w s l e tt e r 9 Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York his column “Real Life Rock Top 10” appears regularly in The Believer. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published in 2009 by Harvard University Press.
Is the author of Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, Writings 1968–2010 (PublicAffairs, 2010), The Shape of Things to Come, Like a Rolling Stone (PublicAffairs, 2006), The Old Weird America, and other books a twentieth-century anniversary edition of his book Lipstick Traces was published in 2009. “As erudite and opinionated as Morrison is mercurial and expressive.” -Jon Brea m, Minneapolis Star Tribune “ series of nonfiction short stories…” -P et e r Gerste nzan g, New York Times Book Review “xplores moments of contradiction, sublime beauty, audacity, failure, and grace in the singer-songwriter’s career with a keen ear, weaving the rich thoughtfulness we’ve come to expect from one of America’s best cultural critics and historians into an elegantly structured series of staccato essays.” - Robert Loss, pop m att ers.com In his long career of extraordinary and unclassifiable moments, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves. To understand Van Morrison’s particular genius. Printer swap process yellow for PMS 803 for all instances (art + type) Glossy lamination Prints 4-color C, M, (803), K + silver PMS 877.
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