No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism. " During the fall of 2008 Marcus held the Winton Chair in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota where he taught and lectured on the history of American pop culture. The Los Angeles Review of Books in 2012 publiGreil Marcusd a 20000 word interview with Marcus about his life.

He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism.