Bob Dylan Isn't Even America's Greatest Literary Songwriter ‹ Literary Hub
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Bob Dylan has done it again. He has mischievously upended the verities, and stuck a guitar pick in the eye of Mr. Jones. Winning the Nobel is the latest of his predictable mischievous victories; he’s once more daringly done that which songwriters aren’t supposed to do. Another feather in the fedora; another laurel around the […]
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