Why Bob Dylan's Controversial Nobel Prize Makes Perfect Sense (And Highlights Incisive Americana At A Crucial Moment)

I'm not really a Bob Dylan fan. He's not my favorite singer-songwriter. That's Joni Mitchell. I've only seen him twice in concert. And I've never met him. Yet his Nobel Prize for Literature makes perfect sense to me. Why? Because he's clearly the most impactful and influential writer of my lifetime. More times than I've liked to recall, I have reached for a pithy phrase to sum up a situation only to realize that I was about to recycle a Dylanism. There's a reason why Dylan is arguably the most q...