Greil Marcus / Letter in the Ether

My way of writing, explained

Former L.A. music industry/scenester sharing my memoirs. Warner Bros. Records/Bomp! Records/Music Rage Records. My partner is Chris Wilson formerly of the Flamin' Groovies and Barracudas.

My personal Substack

Music, books, movies, work, football, TV and so on.

Writing about literature, music, politics, ethics, history, and the end of the world. In no particular order.

Musings on American culture and other irrelevant things.

Thoroughly absorbing explorations of American music from an award-winning journalist. Name the genre—rock, folk, country, blues, jazz, Americana—I’ve been there, and I'm still journeying!

Charles Taylor's Substack

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

On writing, living with cats, being a widow, movies, running, my current workshops & what we are reading, books, art, comedy, nature, gardening, friendship, more.

Notes from outside the consternation machine

DJ mixes and the DJs who make them

Storytelling about rock pop music and culture through decades of interviews, reviews, and feature stories, shaken in a blender. Might be Steely Dan, Dylan, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder. Might be Laura Nyro, Tori Amos, the Ramones.

I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones. This column reflects that history and is about politics, culture, personal stories, and the nation's descent into anti-democratic madness.

reading the American past into the American crisis--and vice versa

A collection of stories and songs based on a list of Raymond Chandler's unused titles.

Bob Dylan concerts throughout history

Robert Christgau's weekly newsletter. Music. Books. Politics. Old Age.

I'm a climate reporter for The New York Times. Now: New York. Before: Taiwan, China, India, Europe.