The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are. — David Bennun Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He is to… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
First of all, there are those who simply don't care for [Bob] Dylan, or at least, don't think he's that great. Some of the… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which it grew,… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel. — David Bennun Copy Share Image