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BOB ON BOB.(Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews)

The New Yorker

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"Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews"--I'm not sure those are words that make the heart beat faster. "Dylan nil a me alienum puto," as Terence put it (or would have put it, if he had lived long enough): nothing having to do with Dylan can be alien to me. Still, as an interview subject, Dylan probably ranks a few notches above Elvis, who was one of the all-time worst. The trouble with Elvis was that he had very little to say; he was mainly concerned about sounding polite. Dylan is rarely concerned about sounding polite, and he says things, but he sometimes makes them up. He also contradicts himself, answers questions with questions, rambles, gets hostile, goes laconic, and ...

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