Robert shelton bob dylan7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Next month sees the publication of three major new books and one reissue: a new account of Dylan’s early life by his renowned biographer Clinton Heylin a collection of new writing on Dylan, edited by Latham an idiosyncratic reassessment of Dylan’s life and work from the writer Paul Morley and a re-edited version of Robert Shelton’s 1986 biography, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home.Ĭentral to it all is the establishment of the Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa, a depository of about 100,000 items bought from Dylan for a cool $20m by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, Kaiser being one of the billionaire philanthropists in which the US seems to specialise. The anniversary coincides with a burgeoning of the Dylan industry being led as much by US academia as by Dylan’s faithful following of “Bobcats”. ![]() Whether it will take as long to decipher Dylan’s extensive oeuvre – 600-odd songs, 39 studio albums, a novel, a memoir, one film as director, several more as actor, a half-dozen documentaries, innumerable concerts, a cache of paintings – seems doubtful given the critical and biographical weight already bearing on him as he approaches his 80th birthday on 24 May. With the centenary of his masterwork arriving in 2022, Joyce has perhaps been proved right. ![]()
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