The Guardian Australia

Tangled up in Bob Dylan biographer’s attack

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May I share Howard Sounes’s disappoint­ment with Clinton Heylin’s new biography of Bob Dylan (Report, 19 April). Like him, I was savaged by Heylin, in my case for writing “a pseudo-historical work”, which sounds as if I’d been taking tips from Donald Trump. Heylin appears to have been the first journalist to access Bob Dylan’s archive in Tulsa, and he doesn’t seem to appreciate that his book potentiall­y had the USP to top them all. Instead, he has attacked a host of fellow writers. I note that “Heylin declined to comment” on your article, but a man with an ego as big as this is not going to let it lie .Spencer LeighLiver­pool

• The extraordin­ary response of fans, politician­s and commentato­rs to the European Super League plan is impressive (European Super League collapsing as all six English clubs withdraw, 21 April). Having beaten capitalism, could they now put all that energy into combating racism, homophobia and misogyny? Ruth Eversley-

Paulton, Somerset

• The Super League forgot to hire a Tory ex-minister as a lobbyist. Next time, it’ll come prepared. Gary Yershon-

London

• An academic department called the Centre for Psychedeli­c Research at Imperial College London (Opinion, 20

April)? In my day, that research was carried out in a back room at the students’ union. Albert Beale London

• We “receive” the Guardian (Letters, 20 April). It’s delivered to the front door. William Kirkland Stone, Staffordsh­ire

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 ?? Photograph: Stanley Bielecki/ASP/Getty Images ?? Bob Dylan at a press conference, London, 1965.
Photograph: Stanley Bielecki/ASP/Getty Images Bob Dylan at a press conference, London, 1965.

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