Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum. HIs “Notes on the Life and Death and Incandesccent Banality of Rock ‘n’ Roll” appeared in the August issue of Esquire.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum. His book Mystery Train was recently published in German by Rogner & Bernhard, Hamburg.

Greil Marcus’ “Sixty-eight Eight-sixed” appears in the first number of the journal Common Knowledge, published by Oxford University Press. He is a contributing editor of Artforum.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor to Artforum. His most recent book, Dead Elvis, received a Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award earlier this year; several chapters were originally published in Artforum.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum. His book Lipstick Traces, 1989, was recently published by Leonardo editore, Milan, as Tracce di rossetto.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum. His project “A Corpse in Your Mouth” is published in the Fall 1991 number of South Atlantic Quaterly.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum. His latest book, Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession, has just been published by Doubleday, New York.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum and the author of Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession, published this month by Doubleday.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum.

Greil Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum.

Bob Dylan’s the bootleg series, volumes 1–3 [rare & unreleased] 1961–1991 (Columbia) contains a shadow version of his entire career, embedded within 58 performances. They range from a tune taped in a Minnesota hotel room in 1961 to an outtake from the 1989 album Oh Mercy; along the way, three CDs collect concert recordings, alternate takes, rehearsals, and publishing demos, programmed roughly year by year. A lot of it is dross, a history of unfinished ideas or untranscended clichés, a book of footnotes. Other parts work as a series of interruptions—of