Bob Dylan‘s subsequent launch received’t be new music — it’ll be a e book of drawings. On Tuesday, Simon & Schuster introduced that it’s going to publish Dylan’s e book Level Clean (Fast Research), a group of black-and-white paintings made by the musician between 2021 and 2022, on Nov. 18.
The gathering, comprising roughly 100 drawings by the musician, options portraits and landscapes, together with photos of curler skaters, a suspension bridge, a karaoke singer, a Parisian canal, a person with a crooked smile, and a roll of Scotch tape.
“This e book showcases Bob Dylan’s mastery of telling tales, creating moods and scary emotions,” mentioned Sean Manning, a publishing government. “The pictures are deeply evocative, without delay harmless and world-weary, joyous and forlorn, humorous and sensual, enigmatic and acquainted.”
A number of of the drawings featured within the e book are presently on show at an exhibit at Halcyon Gallery in London, working by means of July 6. The e book can even characteristic vignettes written by Eddie Gorodetsky, Jackie Hamilton, and Lucy Sante. (Gorodetsky labored with Dylan on his radio present and 2022’s The Philosophy of Trendy Tune.)
“Dylan’s capacity to search out magnificence and thriller within the seemingly mundane is one in all his nice presents—and the present he’s frequently given to the general public over time, together with now with Level Clean,” added Manning.
Dylan stored his paintings non-public for a lot of his life, however began displaying it round 2007. He additionally revealed a e book of drawings in 2008, The Drawn Clean Collection.
Together with the e book, the e book writer can even launch an unabridged audiobook model of the memoir Chronicles: Quantity 1, narrated by Sean Penn. At the moment, solely an abridged audio model of the e book is offered.
