Kris Lindgren on Bob Dylan, lyrics and illustrations

Our colleague Kris Lindgren, who knows her way around rock and roll and the book world, has a piece in today's LA Times on "Bob Dylan Revisited," a collection of illustrators' takes on Dylan's lyrics. From Lindgren's article:

"Why, one wonders, would anyone feel the need to illustrate the lyrics of the most evocative of modern songwriters? Do such Bob Dylan lines as 'Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night,' 'I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways' or 'the cracked bells and washed-out horns / blow into my face with scorn' really require graphic interpretation? That depends, of course, on the illustrators."

The book is out from W.W. Norton, and includes such illustrators as Dave McKean, Gradimir Smudja and Lorenzo Mattotti.