Fans of Bob Dylan will get the chance to look inside the legendary singer-songwriter’s archive in a new book coming later this year.
Callaway Arts & Entertainment announced in a news release that it will publish Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine, which it describes as “the most comprehensive book yet” on the work of the musician and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. The book’s title comes from a line in Dylan’s 1965 song “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”
The book, written and edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, is a collaboration with the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is home to Dylan’s archive.
The publisher calls Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine “a richly illustrated book that is the first panoramic look at the Bob Dylan Archive, featuring nearly 1,000 images, most of which have never been seen before by the public, along with original essays from leading writers and artists.”
Those writers and artists include Peter Carey, Joy Harjo, Richard Hell, Greil Marcus, Gregory Pardlo, and Lee Ranaldo. Historian Sean Wilentz wrote the introduction for the book, and author Douglas Brinkley penned the epilogue.
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is scheduled for publication on Oct. 24.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
