Bob Dylan’s “Chronicles” is a finalist in the biography category for this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award, a rare feat for a pop culture biography.
Virtually all literary efforts by rock stars, from the Kinks’ Ray Davies to Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, are laughed off by critics, but Dylan has been praised for an unusually rich and engaging book, writing passionately about such influences as Woody Guthrie and Robert Johnson and recalling his years as a young singer-songwriter in Greenwich Village.
Other nominees here at The Seattle Times.
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