"""A highly informed, yet intimately personal celebration of one of our most important living writers."" -- NPR ""A nimble gloss on Dylan's lyric genius."" -- USA Today ""A masterstroke of literary detective work . . . and an exciting examination of an artist's enigmatic mind."" -- Booklist (starred review) ""Masterful, fun, passionate, learned, profound, and there's nothing like it. Thomas shows why Dylan deserves his Nobel--and how he hearkens back to, and enlists, the classics. Fantastic reading, full of gems."" -- Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University"