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“... come down and discovered a side of depression darker than you’d ever dreamed of. We listened to Bob Dylan and the Velvets, wandered into each other’s rooms and beds, reading ancient texts, sharing joints and the latest weird science fiction. There simply wasn’t time enough to get to the end of a sentence by Henry James. We lived on allowances from ...”

“... and probably Britten (courtesy of Auden); Enid Starkie, too. But most, including the Beats, Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk, Jim Morrison and Patti Smith, took Rimbaud to be a key French import for the prosperity of imaginative dissent in their own culture, and in some cases as a fashion accessory. Easy to sneer at them, but no bad thing to bear in ...”

“... bony. I watched Scorsese’s film No Direction Home after looking at the exhibition and saw that Bob Dylan’s face has changed in much the same way. One could fancy that their lives were at the same time sources of their art and sculptors of their flesh. But one can’t push the parallel: in the film you see ...”

“... it was, in fact, a rock concert – and billed ‘as a celebration of triumph over disaster’. (Bob Dylan was to be there, but had a heart attack just beforehand.)This was the main public commemoration of the Famine in Ireland. The country grew economically in the second half of the 19th century on the strength of the land clearances, and had not ...”

“... Marcel Duchamp, William Burroughs, Frank O’Hara, Hugo Ball, Geoff Dyer, Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis.Lamb deserves​ much better than this. He deserves, most of all, an account that makes you want to read him. His prose only intermittently wears Thomas Browne and Robert Burton and Thomas Fuller and ...”

“... Peaks, was moving furniture in Laura Palmer’s bedroom when Lynch had his eureka moment: here was BOB, Twin Peaks’s embodiment of pure evil. But it’s not hard to see why MacLachlan – peachy keen, with just a hair of Lynch’s gee-wizardry – would work as his surrogate in his next film, Blue Velvet. The second gift was a financial lesson: a big budget ...”

“... have become themselves, whereas Corvo or Lowry, Hamilton or Conrad Aitken, and maybe poets like Dylan Thomas and John Berryman of more recent date, are celebrated inside their own time-warp, relished as creatures of their epoch. A disillusioned devotee is the worst that can happen to them; and although I enjoyed rereading Twenty Thousand Streets and ...”

“... pastiches of Bowie’s musical heroes of the 1960s – John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Anthony Newley, Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground. Which would make Ziggy Stardust the beautiful butterfly that emerged from the chrysalis. Paul Trynka begins his biography with a description of Bowie’s performance of ‘Starman’ on Top of the Pops on 5 July 1972. It ...”

“... a Republican senator) and her book reads like an extended feature for Vanity Fair. We learn that Bob Dylan adored her in Raintree County and that David Lynch kissed her after the 1987 Oscars (she was a fan of Blue Velvet) and that she resented Andy Warhol for making millions by turning her face into a silk screen image. What the book doesn’t do is ...”

“... home emerged. In ‘The Man Who Married Magdalene’ he managed to sound as cool and smart as Bob Dylan: I have been in this bar For close to seven days. The dark girl over there, For a modest dollar, lays. And you can get a blow-job Where other men have pissed In the little room that’s sacred To the Evangelist. In ‘The Dover Bitch’, the ...”

“... which is a bit like writing about the United States during this period and not mentioning Bob Dylan or Joan Baez, only worse. More generally, Stern never seems to have gone to a concert or a football match, talked to a cab driver, or met anyone lowlier than a full professor, major writer or government minister. By casting his memoir as a series ...”

“... couldn’t hide it.One contemporary noted the difference between Warhol and other gay artists. ‘Bob [Rauschenberg] and Jap [Johns] would even have women for dates and masked who they were,’ whereas Warhol ‘made a big effort to be, perhaps, much more swish than he really was’.Swish or not, it seemed to be fashionable not to like Warhol. A gallery owner ...”

“... place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art’), and Styles of Radical Will, were akin to Bob Dylan going electric. For a large portion of the 1960s and early 1970s the mass-market paperback of Against Interpretation, with Sontag’s face on the cover, was in every countercultural kit bag, a pocket bible to ward off vampires and philistines. In ...”

“... half-Connor? Now and again the modest but watchful Connor household would be visited by Uncle Bob, a former miner who had risen to become a high-up sort of civil servant, an OBE, no less. The boy Karl observed with admiration Bob’s air of ‘frigid Olympian quiet’, ‘the awe’ of his ‘presence’. His visits ...”

“... has been, to say nothing of many a lesser figure. In what might be called the peripheral stakes Dylan Thomas and even David Jones have had more attention in some quarters – in the case of Dylan Thomas, with a wild publicity which has had little enough to do with his work. MacDiarmid, it is true, has had a share of ...”