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Fast Forward Is Bob Dylan Snubbing Nobel Prize — and Why?
— American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan has not been in contact with the Swedish Academy since it awarded him the Nobel Prize for Literature last week. Dylan also has not made a public statement about the honor, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told Swedish public…
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The Schmooze That Time Bob Dylan Went To Shul Incognito
When Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature announcement hit the waves, what immediately came to mind was my mother’s oft-repeated Yiddish assurance: “az men lebt-derlebt men” (if one lives long enough…. one lives —to experience being appreciated, rewarded…) I don’t recall the dates and/or venues in 1990-91 at which I had met him—possibly a convention/concert…
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The Schmooze Sorry, Nobel Committee. Bob Dylan is a Not Taking Your Calls Right Now.
If Bob Dylan is at all excited about winning a Nobel prize in literature, he’s playing it very close to the vest. The 75-year-old musician has yet to respond to phone calls from the Nobel Committee, nor has he RSVP-ed to the prize winner’s banquet in Stockholm, the Guardian reports. “Right now we are doing…
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Culture Why Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan Has a Yiddish Soul
It was not two days ago that I was making a point in a private e-mail in which I reached for this example from the pen of the newest Nobel Laureate for Literature: “Time and love has branded me with its claws/Had to go to Florida/Dodging them Georgia laws/Poor Boy in a hotel called The…
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Culture Yes, Bob Dylan Writes Literature. Next Question?
Bob Dylan’s been a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature for many years, but I don’t think any of us really thought he’d ever win. Now that he has, the question remains, what’s left? He’s already won all the other awards – medals of honor and freedom from the American and French governments,…
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Culture 7 Bob Dylan Songs For Donald Trump
Donald Trump is president-elect. We thought you’d like to know what the bard might have to say about that. Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for literature did manage to take our minds off the political season, but only for a short while. Now that the excitement has died down, we’re back to politics as usual. And…
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Music How Twitter Responded to Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
For at least a moment or two, Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature set the world of Twitter abuzz. The announcement inspired a bevy of reactions. Some welcomed the choice as an acknowledgment that Dylan redefined what literature means in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: Putting aside world & will now listen to…
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Culture The Best and Worst Things About Bob Dylan Winning the Nobel Prize
Now that Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, we find this to be an appropriate time to consider the best and worst aspects of this amazing honor. THE BEST THINGS 1) It expands the definition of what constitutes great literature. 2) It vindicates all of us who suffered through the albums…
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Yiddish איך פֿאָר קיין צורוגאַ, יאַפּאַן, וווּ מײַן טאַטע האָט זיך געראַטעוועט פֿון די נאַציסI travel to Tsuruga, Japan, where my father was saved from the Nazis
אַן אָרטיקער מוזיי גיט איבער רירנדיקע זכרונות פֿון יענע יאָרן מצד די ייִדישע פּליטים און יאַפּאַנישע אײַנוווינער
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