NPR critic Tim Riley has written books on the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Madonna, and the history of rock gender. He publishes the riley rock report, an audio newsletter, where big ideas go to make the world smaller. He teaches digital journalism at Emerson College.
Photo by Alberto Cabello from Vitoria Gasteiz - Bob Dylan, CC BY 2.0.
Throughout his sixty-year-plus career, Bob Dylan has combined an “incredible skill with a wildness of spirit,” as magician Penn J…