| January 25th, 2005 12:36 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Dylan Won't Attend Critic's Prize Fest
NEW YORK - Bob Dylan , whose memoir "Chronicles, Vol. I" is nominated for a National Book Critics Circle prize, will likely be too busy with his day job to attend the March 18 ceremony.
"Bob Dylan is honored by the NBCC nomination, however, he'll be on a concert tour in March," Simon & Schuster spokeswoman Victoria Meyer said Tuesday. Meyer added that the publisher would "work with his office to see if there's any way he can come to the NBCC ceremony."
"Chronicles" was nominated in the biography/autobiography category, with other finalists including Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton" and a biography of Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt's "Will in the World."
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 influences such as Woody Guthrie and Robert Johnson and recalling his years as a young singer-songwriter in New York's Greenwich Village.
Dylan's book, published last fall, also has enjoyed commercial success. Two more volumes are planned.
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| January 25th, 2005 05:18 PM |
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| Gazza |
"Bob Dylan is honored by the NBCC nomination, however, he'll be on a concert tour in March," Simon & Schuster spokeswoman Victoria Meyer said Tuesday. Meyer added that the publisher would "work with his office to see if there's any way he can come to the NBCC ceremony."
Mmmm....Dylan (at the minute) has no concerts confirmed at all, let alone in March.
Maybe he's letting them down gently. I'm half expecting Dylan's office to claim that "Mr Dylan will be staying in to wash his hair that night". |
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