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Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?

Perhaps you were thrilled Monday when Bob Dylan earned a special award from the Pulitzer board for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”

Or perhaps you were ambivalent, or even uneasy, and fretted that the grizzled troubadour’s authenticity was being co-opted by a body known for recognizing journalists, authors and playwrights — an institution that would steal a shot of hipness from its association with the mainstream’s most determined outsider?

If you were apprehensive, you were in the good company of Dylan aficionados still grappling with the trickster mystique of the 66-year-old singer-songwriter who see the Pulitzer as another chapter in his complicated history with the establishment, an ongoing dance of distancings and détentes.
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