TRP's Nobel Competition: Dueling Recluses

[Keith McMullen]

Bob Dylan approximately
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'Chronicles: Volume One'
  Bob Dylan
  Simon & Schuster: 294 pp., $24
  By Timothy Ferris

"Considering his iconic stature — as arguably not only our best  
songwriter but also the world's most influential living artist in any  
medium, a rock star's rock star rumored to be in the running for a  
Nobel Prize in literature — it's surprising how little is known about  
Bob Dylan. He has written more than 500 published songs, many at least  
obliquely autobiographical; he plays more than 100 concerts a year,  
each chronicled and discussed as avidly as if Shakespeare were out  
there playing Hamlet; his work is scrutinized in at least 120 books and  
on 1.5 million websites, yet even devout Dylanologists are at a loss  
for such rudimentary information as whether he is currently married or  
what he does when he's not working."

"Publication of the first volume of his memoirs hence raises hopes that  
oxygen will at last come rushing into this old vacuum, producing not  
only facts but also some sense of what it's like to be Bob Dylan."

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk- 
ferris10oct10,2,1116620.story