• Robert Polito: Hollywood and God

  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
  5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  A presentation and dramatization of Polito's forthcoming Hollywood and God, a collection of poems, lyrics, essays, collage, and narrative, where Cotton Mather, Barbara Payne, Bob Dylan, a 19th century minstrel boy, a female Elvis impersonator, the directors Edgar G. Ulmer, Stanley Kubrick, the novelists David Goddis and Iceberg Slim - among others - traverse the intersection of two fundamental, and fundamentalist, American streets.

  This lecture is part of the CLA Winton Chair Guest Lecture Series. This fall, Greil Marcus holds the Winton Chair in the College of Liberal Arts and is teaching a short course in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, "The Old Weird America" (CSCL 4910/ENGL 4090) October 1 - November 19. Greil Marcus is the author of "The Shape of Things to Come" (2006), "Lipstick Traces" (1989), "Mystery Train" (1975; 5th revised edition 2008), and other books. With Werner Sollors, he is the co-editor of "A New Literary History of America," forthcoming from Harvard in 2009. In recent years he has taught at Berkeley, Princeton, and the New School in New York. He lives in Berkeley. He is a monthly columnist for the Believer.

  November 5th, 2008

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