Books & Meetings, Past & Present & Future
Meetings will generally be at 2 p.m. Eastern Time on the first or second Sunday of the each month.
Click on the book titles below to open pages devoted to these books,
including supplementary information & links we have collected.
If you are a member you can use forms on the member pages to suggest additional content for posting here.
Members can also access Book Impressions where we will post our reactions to the books we read, the authors who visit with us, & our discussions, including recordings of our meetings!
Our Back(ground) Pages for the books on our reading list:
2025
January 5: Louie Kemp with Kinky Friedman. Dylan & Me: 50 Years of Aventures. Hosted by Book Club Member Daniel Singer. Louie Kemp is expected to attend. A Back(Ground) page is under development…check back later!
2024
December 8: K.G. Miles, Paul Metsa, Ed Newman, Marc Percansky & Matt Steichen. Bob Dylan in Minnesota: Troubadour tales from Duluth, Hibbing, and Dinkytown (Co-authors Matt Steichen and Paul Metsa attended and Marc Parcansky sent a letter to the Book Club)
November 10: Gary Browning & Constantine Sandis, Dylan at 80 with contributing author Laura Tenschert, host of the Definitely Dylan podcast
October 13: Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song (with discussion leaders) and PoMS Part 2 (with discussion leaders)
September 8: Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song (with discussion leaders)
August: Summer Break!!! Be sure to read several good books! And look back on our first year: 12 months and 12 books.
July 7: Larry Starr, Listening to Bob Dylan: Experiencing and Re-Experiencing Dylan’s Music (Christopher Vanni will host our discussion; Larry Starr attended!).
June 9: Bob Dylan’s Malibu (EDLIS Café) (Author Martin Newman, Editor Nancy Cobb, and EDLIS members Craig Jamieson and Walter Zuk attended!)
May 5: Mary Lee Kortes, Dreaming of Dylan: 115 Dreams About Bob. (Mary Lee attended!)
April 7: Raphael Falco, No One To Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan. (Professor Falco attended!)
March 3: Graley Herren, the liner notes for Joan Baez In Concert, Part 2, & other 1960s free verse poems of Bob Dylan (Mr. Dylan was invited to attend!)
February 4: Erin Callahan & Court Carney, The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me (Erin & Court attended!)
January 14: Bob Dylan’s Hibbing (EDLIS Café) (two of the authors attended, Craig Jamieson & Walter Zuk!)
2023
December 3: Bob Dylan, On a Couch & Fifty Cents a Day, by Peter K. McKenzie (the author attended!)
November 12: Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind” by Graley Herren (the author attended!)
October 15: Dylan Goes Electric: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald
September 17: Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members, by Ray Padgett (the author attended!)
August 6: A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, by Suze Rotolo