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

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CupV2LxW8AA82E3.jpg

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

That would look great printed on toilet paper

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If they were going to give it to an American poet why couldn't they give it to Billy Collins? Oh wait.

lol James, that was perfect <3

so not gonna happen

^^^now in the running

Next time an advertising firm for their slogans. (j/k, I think it's fine that it went to Dylan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSdsTkqerOw

And Dario Fo died. A mere coincidence?

Good point. Better ask The Widow Gray.

i like a few bob dylan albums

but a man of letters he is not

thanks nobel prize for firmly cementing your place in some back alley trash bin

cuck

without ideas or violence?

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Don't you tell Henry James.

Nobel's got your prize

I like Bob Dylan. The Nobel committee made a strong choice imo. I hope they continue to award prizes to people I like.

Obama shoulda bombed at Budokan

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, October 13, 2016 8:43 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bob Dylan at Budokan rules btw.

I'm really excited about this. Bob Dylan deserves it.

Expanding the definition of "literature" is a good thing imo. Dylan certainly writes good words.

otm. The idea that "real" poetry is something written rather than performed is super ahistorical as well.