The Unguarded Dylan

Even for Bob Dylan fans who think they’ve read and heard it all, this Douglas Brinkley essay in Rolling Stone [“Dylan Unguarded,” RS 1345] is pure gold.

—Bryan Marquard, via Twitter

“This seems as near as we’ve got to a Paris Review interview with Dylan — so much unguarded, demystified talk about how he writes, or wrote at the time, in his first decade as Dylan in 1961-71; what it takes and what it means or doesn’t, and a lot that’s funny too.

—Philip Gourevitch, via Twitter