Books: Lipstick Traces turns twenty with a celebration next week at Columbia
Nov 13, 09
Greil Marcus, one of the writers of pop culture criticism and zeitgeist definitions, is celebrating the twentieth anniversary next week of his landmark book and one of our personal favorite texts to return to every once in a while, Lipstick Traces. The book, subtitled "a secret history of the 20th century", is one of a dozen texts from the writer, who served as the first music editor at Rolling Stone, that will be on display at the celebration, taking place at Columbia University. Columbia, in a partnership with the ARChive of Contemporary Music have secured a "performance and reading" with Marcus of selected items from Traces that will take place on Thursday, November 19 at 6:00 pm at Altschul Auditorium, located at 420 West 118th St. The reading and book signing following the celebration are free and open to the public. So don't miss it. We won't.
(mp3) Sex Pistols - C'mon Everybody (Eddie Cochran cover)
Godspeed!
