October 18, 2016

Nobel Prize Can’t Make Bob Dylan Feel Their Love

Bob Dylan won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” And what could be a more poetic than ghosting on your devotees and never answering their calls? The Swedish Academy is no longer knockin’ on Dylan’s door, for after a few days of calling they were left blowin’ in the wind. “We have stopped trying. We said everything we needed to his manager and friend, he knows about us being eager having confirmation from him, but we haven’t heard anything back,” said the Swedish Academy’s administrative director. But don’t think twice, it’s all right for Dylan. The Academy confirmed that “he will have the prize even if he is not there.”

Yes, I want to sound marginally more intelligent: