Mark Greif – Against Everything: Essays

Brookline Booksmith is pleased to welcome, Mark Greif, author of the collection, Against Everything: Essays.

Over eleven years Mark Greif, co-founder of n+1 magazine, wrote essays exploring the tyranny of exercise; the sexualization of childhood; the philosophy of Radiohead; the rise and fall of hipsters; the impact of the Occupy movement; and the crisis of policing. Each essay is entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious.

A brilliant collection of essays by a young writer who is already a star in the intellectual firmament. As William Deresiewicz has written in Harper’s Magazine, “Mark Greif is an intellectual, full stop . . . There is much of Lionel Trilling in Greif . . . Much also of Susan Sontag . . . What he shares with both, and with the line they represent, is precisely a sense of intellect of thought, of mind as a conscious actor in the world.