Bob Dylan is turning 70, and here we all come: the writers, the critics, the biographers, the song-quoters--and not one of us with a cake or a candle. Each of us thinks we know how best to celebrate the changeling who has changed our lives. Dylan has been called the voice of a generation. It's true. He's given voice to generations of writers who say he inspired them. If every person has a book in them, it seems every writer has a Dylan book--or at least an essay--in them.
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