Who will be the next American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

America's greatest living poet, Bill "Smokey" Robinson, was robbed.

(Fingers in ears) I CANT HEAR YOU! I CANT HEAR YOU!

Time to start the Tarantula ILB book club.

Excellent

What will the next 3 signs of the apocalypse be?

Stephen King for 2017

I hope somebody returns their award in protest

he wrote some pretty class songs imo

lol grouchies

Look, dylan to me is like clinton to you

Orhan Pamuk: I am returning this in protest of the latest recipient and because Turkey is slipping down the charts.

philip roth on his agent's sofa, sadly watching the liver going cold for the last time

if a Nobel Prize for Song existed, Dylan would deserve it, I guess.

Watching the Liver Flow

lol

good

My wife has asked me to stop shouting BOB FUCKING DYLAN angrily every couple of minutes, so i think i should best close this thread and go to bed

At least we have bonkers acceptance speech to look forward to, in which he will insult all and sundry.

i actually have no problem with this. one of the most influential writers of the last century. for literary and extra-literary reasons.

Morrissey is fuming whatdoyowannabet

A thousand think pieces about white male songwriters and I am a millennial and I don't like Bob Dylan being pitched right now

My biggest fear is that the people who has lobbied for a songwriter to be considered a great poet will move on to try and get a scriptwriter recognized as a great dramatis. Woody Allen 2020, people. It's coming.

if you asked most of the people who are on those nobel-wannabe lists and people who are living who have one a nobel if he deserved to win one they would probably say: hell yeah!

especially poets of a certain age.

braced for the incoming hot takes drawing parallels between obama's nobel and dylan's

Look, dylan to me is like clinton to you

peaked in the early '70s? challopsy

Dylan's would be like Obamas if he won it in 1962

hot take #1, keep 'em coming

man the Hillary campaign will stop at nothing when it comes to defeating Trump, eh?

Dylan's lyrics are poor as poesy. The Nobel should have gone to Caetano Veloso.

first nobel laureate to star in a superbowl halftime commercial!

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not to mention victoria's secret

oh wait that was prob it

that one yes, also chrysler and pepsi.

there really isn't anything more american than america.

yep Dylan shoulda got it before he bombed weddings in Pakistan too

or at least before the christmas album

i haven't seen this victoria's secret ad but i choose to believe it involves a lingerie-clad dylan provocatively reclining on a big brass bed

morbs gets hot take #2

I heard he was pretty good at those Afghan weddings

But yeah the ones in Pakistan he was under the weather

Obama shoulda bombed at Budokan

"Dylan's lyrics are poor as poesy. The Nobel should have gone to Caetano Veloso."

they are songs though, not poems. his lyrics work great as song lyrics. and caetano hearts dylan so hard!

this is bullshit - books get little enough exposure as it is without giving this award to dylan. i like his music but the entire idea of lyrics as poetry or literature is a fallacy.

if books meed more exposure their writers should set them to music tbh

*need

next year an app is going to win

Orhan Pamuk: I am returning this in protest of the latest recipient and because Turkey is slipping down the charts.

― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, October 13, 2016 11:20 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Quality post imo

a signed cassingle of 'de doo doo doo, de da da da' is even now winging its way toward stockholm

Lol

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"Brownsville Girl" didn't top Pearl Buck? pish tosh