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How does one write a biography of one of the most definitive, elusive, and ever-changing artists in the history of popular music?

Perhaps, by abandoning any intention to include any straightforward, linear qualities that a so-called traditional biography might promise.

There have been countless books penned on the life, times, and music of Bob Dylan since he first burst onto the folk music scene of the early 1960s.

There was Dylan’s own Chronicles, Volume One (2004), a seductively fascinating selected set of tales from his own life, and an arguably successful film by Todd Haynes called I’m Not There (2007), that depicted the wildly different phases of Bob Dylan’s life by casting wildly different actors for each version of Dylan—or each character inspired by him and his songs.

If any music writer and cultural critic should be well-suited to take on the task of composing a Bob Dylan biography, i