After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace

by Robert Polito

A prevailing narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of Sixties counterculture, disappeared in the 1970s, then released arguably the worst music of his career in the 1980s--only to be resurrected in 2016, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan's concerts once began with an announcer intoning a deadpan version of just such a narrative. That is not this story.

Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, After the Flood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871402939
• ISBN13: 9780871402936
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 336 Pages