Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010

Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisited by his foremost interpreter — weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times.

The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota — his very first appearance at his alma mater — on election night 2008. In between are moments of euphoric discovery: From Marcus's liner notes for the 1967 Basement Tapes (pop music's most famous bootlegged archiv...