Bob Dylan 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature, recorded in Los Angeles June 4, 2017.

For sheer nostalgia and some long range perspective of this genius, check out these Press Conferences and the interview with Bob Dylan starting from the first one in 1965 in San Francisco:

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Dylan press conference, 1986, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney

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Dylan Interview: 60 Minutes with Ed Bradley (2004) "Not Dark Yet"

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Alex Bream of the Boston Globe put it well yet succinctly:

OCT. 13, 2016, THE DAY that Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the happiest days of my life.

Literature is a big word -- the eco-lawn people like to leave "literature" on our doorstep -- and it certainly embraces Dylan's decades-long output of ballads, poetry, songs, broadsides, and prose. Although largely unnoticed, the Nobel Committee radically expanded the literature category by giving the 2015 prize to Svetlana Alexievich, a journalist (oh my!) who mixed fact and fiction (my oh my!) in her moving tales of the forgotten women and men of the Soviet Union.

Not surprisingly, self-appointed guardians of the literary flame, such as Manhattan boulevardier Gary Shteyngart, protested the Dylan Nobel. "I totally get the Nobel committee," Shteyngart tweeted, trumpily. "Reading books is hard."

Reading books like Shteyngart's derivative and overtooled "Super Sad True Love Story" is hard. Listening to Dylan can be maddening too, but more often than not his work, which Boston University literature professor Christopher Ricks has praised as an "equilateral triangle" of poetry, song, and performance, is beautiful and thought-provoking.

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A flurry of articles came out today questioning whether Dylan quoted Spark Notes on Moby Dick or the book itself. I don't get this at all....One of the great geniuses of all world literature is supposed to sit down and cull out and transcribe passages from a 900 page book he read first maybe 55 years ago? To posit that seems very petty and trivial.

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