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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Description: New York has long been a city where people go to reinvent themselves.And since the dawn of the twentieth century, New York City’s Greenwich Village has been at the center of that alchemy of reinvention. Its side streets, squares and coffeehouses have nurtured generations of artists, writers, and musicians, among them Bob Dylan.Dylan first set foot in the Village in 1961, and even as he continues to make music, you can argue that his Greenwich Village years in the 1960s were a formative period in his life and work. Dick Weissman’s new book...