• Review of Michael Gray, 'Outtakes on Bob Dylan'

    From Christopher Rollason@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 17 12:09:20 2022
    Published today on my blog at:
    https://rollason.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/michael-gray-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-my-review-in-the-dylan-review-3-2/
    MICHAEL GRAY, ‘OUTTAKES ON BOB DYLAN’ – MY REVIEW IN THE DYLAN REVIEW 3.2.

    I have reviewed Michael Gray’s excellent essay collection ‘Outtakes on Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021’ (Pontefract: Route, 2021), in the Dylan Review 3.2 (Fall 2021 – Winter 2022), pp. 45-52, at : https://thedylanreview.org/2022/01/15/
    review-of-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-selected-writings-1967-2021/

    I hope this review of a book by a major Dylan scholar will be of interest to Dylanites generally.

    This Dylan Review issue is extremely interesting and, alert to new events in the Dylan world, contains, among much more, reviews of Dylan’s film Shadow Kingdom and the latest Bootleg Series (No 16), Springtime in New York and a joint review of the
    recent Emma Swift and Chrissie Hynde cover albums :

    https://thedylanreview.org/

    The issue also features Dave Junker’s review of my own book ‘Read Books, Repeat Quotations: The Literary Bob Dylan’, for which see a separate entry on my blog!

    All best to all,

    Chris Rollason

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  • From General Zod@21:1/5 to Christopher Rollason on Tue Jan 18 16:03:22 2022
    On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:09:22 PM UTC-5, Christopher Rollason wrote:
    Published today on my blog at: https://rollason.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/michael-gray-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-my-review-in-the-dylan-review-3-2/
    MICHAEL GRAY, ‘OUTTAKES ON BOB DYLAN’ – MY REVIEW IN THE DYLAN REVIEW 3.2.

    I have reviewed Michael Gray’s excellent essay collection ‘Outtakes on Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021’ (Pontefract: Route, 2021), in the Dylan Review 3.2 (Fall 2021 – Winter 2022), pp. 45-52, at : https://thedylanreview.org/2022/01/15/
    review-of-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-selected-writings-1967-2021/

    I hope this review of a book by a major Dylan scholar will be of interest to Dylanites generally.

    This Dylan Review issue is extremely interesting and, alert to new events in the Dylan world, contains, among much more, reviews of Dylan’s film Shadow Kingdom and the latest Bootleg Series (No 16), Springtime in New York and a joint review of the
    recent Emma Swift and Chrissie Hynde cover albums :

    https://thedylanreview.org/

    The issue also features Dave Junker’s review of my own book ‘Read Books, Repeat Quotations: The Literary Bob Dylan’, for which see a separate entry on my blog!

    All best to all,

    Chris Rollason

    Of interest....

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  • From Willie@21:1/5 to Christopher Rollason on Tue Jan 18 18:19:17 2022
    On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:09:22 PM UTC-5, Christopher Rollason wrote:
    Published today on my blog at: https://rollason.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/michael-gray-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-my-review-in-the-dylan-review-3-2/
    MICHAEL GRAY, ‘OUTTAKES ON BOB DYLAN’ – MY REVIEW IN THE DYLAN REVIEW 3.2.

    I have reviewed Michael Gray’s excellent essay collection ‘Outtakes on Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021’ (Pontefract: Route, 2021), in the Dylan Review 3.2 (Fall 2021 – Winter 2022), pp. 45-52, at : https://thedylanreview.org/2022/01/15/
    review-of-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-selected-writings-1967-2021/

    I hope this review of a book by a major Dylan scholar will be of interest to Dylanites generally.

    This Dylan Review issue is extremely interesting and, alert to new events in the Dylan world, contains, among much more, reviews of Dylan’s film Shadow Kingdom and the latest Bootleg Series (No 16), Springtime in New York and a joint review of the
    recent Emma Swift and Chrissie Hynde cover albums :

    https://thedylanreview.org/

    The issue also features Dave Junker’s review of my own book ‘Read Books, Repeat Quotations: The Literary Bob Dylan’, for which see a separate entry on my blog!

    All best to all,

    Chris Rollason
    Thank you, Chris. The Dylan Review is quite a periodical. I intend to read your review, and that comparison of Infidels to Richard III also caught my eye.

    Question for all here, though, who have read Heylin's Double Life: Is it just me, or is the book unreadable? I don't question his brilliance. But I can't make any headway in it. It jumps about so much and the text is so dense that I keep having to
    backtrack, until I toss it aside and say, forget it.

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  • From Willie@21:1/5 to Willie on Tue Jan 18 18:48:52 2022
    On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 9:19:20 PM UTC-5, Willie wrote:
    On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:09:22 PM UTC-5, Christopher Rollason wrote:
    Published today on my blog at: https://rollason.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/michael-gray-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-my-review-in-the-dylan-review-3-2/
    MICHAEL GRAY, ‘OUTTAKES ON BOB DYLAN’ – MY REVIEW IN THE DYLAN REVIEW 3.2.

    I have reviewed Michael Gray’s excellent essay collection ‘Outtakes on Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021’ (Pontefract: Route, 2021), in the Dylan Review 3.2 (Fall 2021 – Winter 2022), pp. 45-52, at : https://thedylanreview.org/2022/01/15/
    review-of-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-selected-writings-1967-2021/

    I hope this review of a book by a major Dylan scholar will be of interest to Dylanites generally.

    This Dylan Review issue is extremely interesting and, alert to new events in the Dylan world, contains, among much more, reviews of Dylan’s film Shadow Kingdom and the latest Bootleg Series (No 16), Springtime in New York and a joint review of the
    recent Emma Swift and Chrissie Hynde cover albums :

    https://thedylanreview.org/

    The issue also features Dave Junker’s review of my own book ‘Read Books, Repeat Quotations: The Literary Bob Dylan’, for which see a separate entry on my blog!

    All best to all,

    Chris Rollason
    Thank you, Chris. The Dylan Review is quite a periodical. I intend to read your review, and that comparison of Infidels to Richard III also caught my eye.

    Question for all here, though, who have read Heylin's Double Life: Is it just me, or is the book unreadable? I don't question his brilliance. But I can't make any headway in it. It jumps about so much and the text is so dense that I keep having to
    backtrack, until I toss it aside and say, forget it.
    I'm grateful to the Dylan Review for publishing Thomas Kitts' review of Double Life. The review is very well-paced and straighforward, and inspires me to continue with Heylin.
    https://thedylanreview.org/2022/01/15/review-of-the-double-life-of-bob-dylan-a-restless-hungry-feeling-1941-1966/

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  • From K. Hematite@21:1/5 to Willie on Tue Jan 18 19:37:46 2022
    On Tuesday, 18 January 2022 at 21:48:53 UTC-5, Willie wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 9:19:20 PM UTC-5, Willie wrote:
    On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:09:22 PM UTC-5, Christopher Rollason wrote:
    Published today on my blog at: https://rollason.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/michael-gray-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-my-review-in-the-dylan-review-3-2/
    MICHAEL GRAY, ‘OUTTAKES ON BOB DYLAN’ – MY REVIEW IN THE DYLAN REVIEW 3.2.

    I have reviewed Michael Gray’s excellent essay collection ‘Outtakes on Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021’ (Pontefract: Route, 2021), in the Dylan Review 3.2 (Fall 2021 – Winter 2022), pp. 45-52, at : https://thedylanreview.org/2022/01/
    15/review-of-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-selected-writings-1967-2021/

    I hope this review of a book by a major Dylan scholar will be of interest to Dylanites generally.

    This Dylan Review issue is extremely interesting and, alert to new events in the Dylan world, contains, among much more, reviews of Dylan’s film Shadow Kingdom and the latest Bootleg Series (No 16), Springtime in New York and a joint review of
    the recent Emma Swift and Chrissie Hynde cover albums :

    https://thedylanreview.org/

    The issue also features Dave Junker’s review of my own book ‘Read Books, Repeat Quotations: The Literary Bob Dylan’, for which see a separate entry on my blog!

    All best to all,

    Chris Rollason
    Thank you, Chris. The Dylan Review is quite a periodical. I intend to read your review, and that comparison of Infidels to Richard III also caught my eye.

    Question for all here, though, who have read Heylin's Double Life: Is it just me, or is the book unreadable? I don't question his brilliance. But I can't make any headway in it. It jumps about so much and the text is so dense that I keep having to
    backtrack, until I toss it aside and say, forget it.
    I'm grateful to the Dylan Review for publishing Thomas Kitts' review of Double Life. The review is very well-paced and straighforward, and inspires me to continue with Heylin.
    https://thedylanreview.org/2022/01/15/review-of-the-double-life-of-bob-dylan-a-restless-hungry-feeling-1941-1966/


    On the other hand, a New Republic review of Heylin's book in May 2021 pretty much ripped it (and by extension, him) to shreds.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/162533/whats-wrong-bob-dylans-biographers-clinton-heylin-review

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  • From Willie@21:1/5 to K. Hematite on Wed Jan 19 18:02:29 2022
    On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 10:37:48 PM UTC-5, K. Hematite wrote:
    On Tuesday, 18 January 2022 at 21:48:53 UTC-5, Willie wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 9:19:20 PM UTC-5, Willie wrote:
    On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:09:22 PM UTC-5, Christopher Rollason wrote:
    Published today on my blog at: https://rollason.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/michael-gray-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-my-review-in-the-dylan-review-3-2/
    MICHAEL GRAY, ‘OUTTAKES ON BOB DYLAN’ – MY REVIEW IN THE DYLAN REVIEW 3.2.

    I have reviewed Michael Gray’s excellent essay collection ‘Outtakes on Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021’ (Pontefract: Route, 2021), in the Dylan Review 3.2 (Fall 2021 – Winter 2022), pp. 45-52, at : https://thedylanreview.org/2022/
    01/15/review-of-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-selected-writings-1967-2021/

    I hope this review of a book by a major Dylan scholar will be of interest to Dylanites generally.

    This Dylan Review issue is extremely interesting and, alert to new events in the Dylan world, contains, among much more, reviews of Dylan’s film Shadow Kingdom and the latest Bootleg Series (No 16), Springtime in New York and a joint review of
    the recent Emma Swift and Chrissie Hynde cover albums :

    https://thedylanreview.org/

    The issue also features Dave Junker’s review of my own book ‘Read Books, Repeat Quotations: The Literary Bob Dylan’, for which see a separate entry on my blog!

    All best to all,

    Chris Rollason
    Thank you, Chris. The Dylan Review is quite a periodical. I intend to read your review, and that comparison of Infidels to Richard III also caught my eye.

    Question for all here, though, who have read Heylin's Double Life: Is it just me, or is the book unreadable? I don't question his brilliance. But I can't make any headway in it. It jumps about so much and the text is so dense that I keep having to
    backtrack, until I toss it aside and say, forget it.
    I'm grateful to the Dylan Review for publishing Thomas Kitts' review of Double Life. The review is very well-paced and straighforward, and inspires me to continue with Heylin.
    https://thedylanreview.org/2022/01/15/review-of-the-double-life-of-bob-dylan-a-restless-hungry-feeling-1941-1966/
    On the other hand, a New Republic review of Heylin's book in May 2021 pretty much ripped it (and by extension, him) to shreds.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/162533/whats-wrong-bob-dylans-biographers-clinton-heylin-review

    Semley writes, "Heylin’s book betrays the frustration of this knowledge [WW: That figuring Dylan out is impossible]. It’s riven with the sort of nastiness that marks first-rate obsessives, whose interest in a subject calcifies in time into a thinly
    veiled hatred, as the object of their affection fails to reveal its fullness."

    You know, I've felt a little of that myself at times (that is, an annoyance at Dylan's inscrutability). But then he comes up with something like "I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" that wins back my heart.

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  • From Zod@21:1/5 to Willie on Fri Jan 21 14:39:10 2022
    On Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 9:02:31 PM UTC-5, Willie wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 10:37:48 PM UTC-5, K. Hematite wrote:
    On Tuesday, 18 January 2022 at 21:48:53 UTC-5, Willie wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 9:19:20 PM UTC-5, Willie wrote:
    On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:09:22 PM UTC-5, Christopher Rollason wrote:
    Published today on my blog at: https://rollason.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/michael-gray-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-my-review-in-the-dylan-review-3-2/
    MICHAEL GRAY, ‘OUTTAKES ON BOB DYLAN’ – MY REVIEW IN THE DYLAN REVIEW 3.2.

    I have reviewed Michael Gray’s excellent essay collection ‘Outtakes on Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021’ (Pontefract: Route, 2021), in the Dylan Review 3.2 (Fall 2021 – Winter 2022), pp. 45-52, at : https://thedylanreview.org/2022/
    01/15/review-of-outtakes-on-bob-dylan-selected-writings-1967-2021/

    I hope this review of a book by a major Dylan scholar will be of interest to Dylanites generally.

    This Dylan Review issue is extremely interesting and, alert to new events in the Dylan world, contains, among much more, reviews of Dylan’s film Shadow Kingdom and the latest Bootleg Series (No 16), Springtime in New York and a joint review
    of the recent Emma Swift and Chrissie Hynde cover albums :

    https://thedylanreview.org/

    The issue also features Dave Junker’s review of my own book ‘Read Books, Repeat Quotations: The Literary Bob Dylan’, for which see a separate entry on my blog!

    All best to all,

    Chris Rollason
    Thank you, Chris. The Dylan Review is quite a periodical. I intend to read your review, and that comparison of Infidels to Richard III also caught my eye.

    Question for all here, though, who have read Heylin's Double Life: Is it just me, or is the book unreadable? I don't question his brilliance. But I can't make any headway in it. It jumps about so much and the text is so dense that I keep having
    to backtrack, until I toss it aside and say, forget it.
    I'm grateful to the Dylan Review for publishing Thomas Kitts' review of Double Life. The review is very well-paced and straighforward, and inspires me to continue with Heylin.
    https://thedylanreview.org/2022/01/15/review-of-the-double-life-of-bob-dylan-a-restless-hungry-feeling-1941-1966/
    On the other hand, a New Republic review of Heylin's book in May 2021 pretty much ripped it (and by extension, him) to shreds.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/162533/whats-wrong-bob-dylans-biographers-clinton-heylin-review
    Semley writes, "Heylin’s book betrays the frustration of this knowledge [WW: That figuring Dylan out is impossible]. It’s riven with the sort of nastiness that marks first-rate obsessives, whose interest in a subject calcifies in time into a thinly
    veiled hatred, as the object of their affection fails to reveal its fullness."

    You know, I've felt a little of that myself at times (that is, an annoyance at Dylan's inscrutability). But then he comes up with something like "I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" that wins back my heart.

    I read some on line and found it informative.....

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