I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be.
Jay Michaelson[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.
Jay MichaelsonUnlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.
Jay MichaelsonExcept in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.
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