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Wall Street Journal -- "What to Read: 10 Best Books of February"
Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, "If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?"
Brief description: Robert Polito served as president of the Poetry Foundation from 2013 to 2015. The founding director of the Graduate Writing and Writing and Democracy Programs at the New School, Polito teaches writing and literature. For his book Savage Art, he was awarded the NBCC Award in Biography.
Review Quotes: It's been a long time since I've read a book about a major artist that is as much fun -- that communicates as much excitement as the author feels for his subject -- as Robert Polito's After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace . . . The book is itself a flood of ideas, of information, of emotion . . . After the Flood renders Dylan the hardboiled protagonist of his own ever-lengthening career -- one long mystery that will never be fully solved.--Ken Tucker "NPR, Fresh Air"