Greil Marcus / Letter in the Ether

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

Notes from outside the consternation machine

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, boygenius. Might be Laura Nyro, Suzanne Vega, the Ramones.

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

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

My personal Substack

Bob Dylan concerts throughout history

Musings on American culture and other irrelevant things.

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

DJ mixes and the DJs who make them

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Taylor's Substack

Former L.A. music industry/scenester. Sharing my memoirs spanning over 40 years. BOMP! VOXX Records & Warner Reprise Alumni - The Mo Years. My husband is Chris Wilson formerly of the Flamin' Groovies and Barracudas.

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.

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!

My way of writing, explained