Hyper-detailed and persuasive ... Is Polito’s approach challenging at times? Yes, but it’s worth it if you want a fuller sense of how the mind of one of our most challenging artists operates.
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 ... Renders Dylan the hardboiled protagonist of his own ever-lengthening career — one long mystery that will never be fully solved.
A rich portrait of an artist ceaselessly remaking himself. Dylan devotees couldn’t ask for a more thorough consideration of an under-studied part of his oeuvre
