The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice

by Greil Marcus

Picador

August 2007, 336 pages, $15.00

by Erika Nanes

Convinced as I was by Marcus' readings, I couldn't help noticing that the primary subjects of all four chapters were works produced by white men: Philip Roth, David Lynch, Bill Pullmanm and David Thomas.
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