Bob Dylan, the Musician: America’s Great One-Man Songbook - The New York Times
Jon Pareles
Dylan’s literary recognition — which eventually didn’t matter to the Pulitzers (2008) or the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2013) and now to the Nobels — has been that he is a songwriter, so his words are best heard with his music.
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