Volume 48, Number 12 · July 19, 2001
Liaisons Dangereuses
By John Leonard
Positively 4th Street:The Life and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña,and Richard Fariña
by David Hajdu
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 328 pp., $25.00
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
by Howard Sounes
Grove, 527 pp., $27.50
Bob Dylan wrote 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' in the summer of 1962, in a matter of minutes, on Wavy Gravy's typewriter, after reading William Blake. 'That song kind of roared right out of the typewriter,' Wavy Gravy remembers. 'It roared through him the way paint roared through van Gogh.'
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