"Hollywood and God": Presentation by Robert Polito, with comment by Greil Marcus November 12, 2008

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 fall, Greil Marcus, scholar of rock 'n roll and popular culture, holds the Winton Chair in the College of Liberal Arts. He 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.

To be held in 155 Nicholson Hall.

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