Book 9 explores the through lines of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning body of work and his continued commitment to live performance. On October 13, 2016, news broke that the Swedish Academy had awarded Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Dylan was only the twelfth American to win the Prize, joining Saul Bellow, Joseph Brodsky, Pearl Buck, T. S. Eliot,...