![]() To a generation that took rock as seriously as we took Camus and Borges, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock’n’Roll Music (1975) lit a path through lost highways to Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers and countless others with ancestral links to the music we grew up with – Dylan and the Band, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix. I won’t name names they know who they are. If, as Benjamin Franklin is said to have said, originality is the art of concealing your source, then I am the most original writer in America: I’ve been stealing stuff from Greil Marcus since I was editing my school paper at the University of Alabama, and have continued to do it. ![]() Illustrated by Aya Morton, Text Adapted by Fred Fordham ![]() ![]() The Great Gatsby, The Graphic Novel by F. Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby by Greil Marcus ![]()
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