Bob's Your Nobel
Forget Paul Simon, Bob Dylan just picked up the Nobel Prize in Literature (New York Times link). I honestly don't know what to say, except Philip Roth must be pissed off.
posted by LAGuy @ 7:55 AM
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-Jonathan Klein, former CBS Executive
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3 Comments:
I really liked his book Tarantula. I was 15 but I really liked it.
Dylan is a lyrical genius, and if the Nobel Committee gave prizes for songwriting or lyric-writing, he should win.
But literature? Ian Tuttle takes down this silliness here.
On the other hand, the literature prize has often been given to a poet. Does that fit the definition of literature?
Well, at least he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. That honor, at least, has never been given to an undeserving recipient.
Ooh, you are a bad man, LK, a bad man.
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