Bob dillon's writing is very beautiful, and it showed me a lot of his writing. I don't know what it would be like for somebody to read bob dillon's lyrics who had never heard the music. Some of the songs, i think, would not hold up. But tamborine man is the one that comes very close to holding up. It's full of pictures all the way through bnow, the haunted, frightened trees, the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. And so pictorial. So that's why, as i say, he is a great writer. O gillon is very near at the pinnacle, you know, and paul simon, jon
Acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie joins journalist Razia Iqbal to take us back in time and discuss three influential touchstones of his life: a silver ingot engraved with an unpartitioned map of India, Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr. Tambourine man’, and James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’, a slightly intimidating but powerful inspiration.
This episode was originally released in 2021 as part of Intelligence Squared’s touchstones series and produced by Head of Podcasts Farah Jassat
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