Heartbroken Patriots
Greil Marcus’s new book interrogates American myths of success and belonging via adaptations and revisionings of “The Great Gatsby.”
Robert Loss is an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Philosophy at Columbus College of Art and Design. He is the author of Nothing Has Been Done Before: Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). His writing about the intersections of culture, politics, and aesthetics in American literature, comics, and popular music has appeared in Public Books, Ghettoblaster, The Comics Journal, and PopMatters. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and their cat. His website is www.robertloss.org.
Greil Marcus’s new book interrogates American myths of success and belonging via adaptations and revisionings of “The Great Gatsby.”
Robert Loss speaks to Joe Casey, lead singer of Protomartyr, about the literature that inspires his allusive lyrics.
On the Library of America’s new anthology of rock music criticism.
Greil Marcus offers a perspective that's eclectic and that carves out an everyday space where the art of pop music is still possible.
From Bob Dylan's "Great White Wonder," the first rock 'n' roll bootleg, to "Dell" Glover, patient zero of music piracy.