Rockers want to write writers want to rock
The piece recalls Bob Dylan as a towering cultural figure praised by critics and peers. It notes NBCC finalist status for Chronicles Vol 1, compares him to Whitman and Twain, and traces the cross pollination of rock and literature from Dylan to Rushdie and Lethem. Cultural shifts, awards, and collaborations are highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Martin Amis
Rick Moody
Times
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain
Arthur Rimbaud
Bob Dylan
England
Lord
Dante and
Keats
Kennedy Center
Clinton
Dylan
National Book Critics Circle
John Updike
Philip Roth
Stephen Greenblatt
Ron Chernow
Alexander Hamilton
Ian
Greil Marcus
NBCC
Rolling Stone
Woody Guthrie
Chekhov
Voltaire
Rousseau
John Locke
Updike
Paperback Writer and Song Lyrics in Rock Fiction and Legend
A survey of rock and roll fiction and songs linking literature to music. Notable items include Ellison's Spider Kiss and DeLillo's Great Jones Street among novels. Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Doors and Stones songs with literary allusions. and Cave's There She Goes My Baby referencing Marx and poets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dylan
Beatles
Paul Simon
John Donne
The
Doors
Who
Tommy
T. Caraghessan Boyle
Jim
Morrison
Harlan Ellison
Don DeLillo
Jones Street
Roddy Doyle
Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Salman Rushdie
Scott Spencer
Kentucky
David Helton
Texas
Mark Shipper
Commitments
Lewis Shiner
Bob Dylan
Simon and Garfunkel
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
I Am
John Lennon
Lewis Carroll
Mick Jagger
Baudelaire
Mikhail Bulgakov
Lou Reed
Delmore Schwartz
Syracuse University
Stephen Daedalus
Leopold Bloom
James Joyce
Ulysses
Tom Joad
Bruce Springsteen
John Steinbeck
Town
Baby
Nick Cave
Karl Marx
Philip Larkin
Dylan Thomas
Century Odessa Adds New Screenings And Times
The Odessa theater lists new films including The Aviator Good Company and The Phantom of the Opera with show times spanning early evening to late night. Also scheduled are Racing Stripes Assault on Precinct 13 and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events with subtitled The Flying Daggers and Flying Daggers being shown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Precinct 13
Lemony Snicket
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Hillel Italie
Associated Press
Rushdie
Bono
Paul Muldoon
Warren Zevon
Soft Skull Press
Jonathan Lethem
Margaret Atwood
Paul Auster
One Ring Zero
Boyle
Brownsville
Sam Shepard
Eerie NM
Golder
Odessa
E. University
Dmia Aia
Ain
Spening
Serena
Warke
the Market Grill & Bar
Rill & Ba
Buffet
Andrews
Coliseum
Keith
Troy
Lavenae
Aarns
Eee
Blockbuster Video
42Nd St
Shepperd Phwy
Music City Mall
W. County
E. B. St
Enormouly
Leonardo Dicaprio
Rons
Century Theatres Century
Preston
Hollywood
Permian Palace
Willion
ALOME
Tees
Laasem
Rees
Bae
Steg Buffet
Kermit Hwy
Odessa, Texas
Vette's Sports Grill
AMC
Jbs Parkway
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