Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews. First Paperback Edition (Cover Photo: Ted Russell / Polaris)

Cott, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1932958622 / ISBN 13: 9781932958621

Published by Wenner, 2006

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445 pages, 23,5 cm, fine copy. . Dylan expert and longtime Rolling Stone contributor Jonathan Cott has compiled thirty-one interviews that, taken together, present the public transformation of a brilliant young man evading fame and its attendant invasion of privacy into a seasoned professional who has learned how to impart truth to those questioning him without giving away too much of his private self. Included in Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews are all six major interviews Rolling Stone conducted with Dylan, by Jann S. Wenner, Mikal Gilmore, Kurt Loder, and Cott himself. Other highlights include Nat Hentoff's legendary 1966 Playboy interview with the singer; Studs Terkel's 1963 radio interview on Chicago's WFMT; the interview Dylan gave to screenwriter Jay Cocks when Cocks was a Kenyon College student in 1964; a 1965 interview with director Nora Ephron; and an interview that Sam Shepard turned into a one-act play for Esquire in 1987. Each piece portrays Bob Dylan as an interview subject who, as Cott writes in his introduction, is "at once obviously reluctant, self-protecting, and self-concealing but equally often a stunningly direct, heartfelt, epiphanic, poetic, and, most important, playful expositor of his munificent and inspiring thought-dreams." 464 p.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews. First Paperback Edition (Cover Photo: Ted Russell / Polaris)
• Publisher: Wenner
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932958622
• ISBN 13: 9781932958621
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: very good
• Book Type: Buch
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biografie/Monografie/Briefe

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Synopsis

Brings together more than thirty of the most important and revealing interviews and conversations with the legendary musician, including seminal articles from the Rolling Stone, as well as Nat Hentoff's 1996 Playboy interview and other dialogues with Studs Terkel, Nora Ephron, and Sam Shepard. Reprint.

About the Author

Jonathan Cott is the author of sixteen books, including Dylan, Conversations with Glenn Gould, Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer, and Back to a Shadow in the Night: Music Writings and Interviews -- 1968–2001. He is also coeditor of The Ballad of John and Yoko. He has been a contributing editor to Rolling Stone since its inception and has written for the New York Times, Parabola, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City.