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Bob Dylan archives open in Oklahoma; public center planned

JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS million to $20 million. The guitarist Keith Richards and
Associated Press foundation also snapped letters from former first lady
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Part up Guthrie’s archives in Michelle Obama, director
of music icon Bob Dylan’s 2011, paying $3 million. Martin Scorsese and Bono
once-secret 6,000-piece The Woody Guthrie Center are also in the trove.
archive, including thou- opened two years later. Then there are the audio
sands of hours of studio ses- “A couple hundred books recordings and film reels
sions, film reels and caches have been written about — enough so that it would
of unpublished lyrics, has Bob Dylan, maybe equal take around 113 days to
opened in Oklahoma, to or more books than consecutively listen to and
curators announced this have been written about watch all of the available
week. Abraham Lincoln, but none material, estimates curator
More than 1,000 pieces of the writers have had the Michael Chaiken.
spanning Dylan’s six-de- access to any of this ma- “Nobody knew Bob held
cade career are available terial,” said Stanton Doyle, onto so much stuff,” Chai-
to scholars at the Gilcrease a senior program officer ken said in an interview
Museum’s Helmerich Cen- at the foundation. “I think Wednesday. “The materials
ter for American Research people will get an insight we are opening up have
in Tulsa. into Dylan and his creative never been seen before by
The public will get a process that’s never been the public at large.” This July 22, 2012 file photo shows U.S. singer-songwriter Bob
Dylan performing on stage at “Les Vieilles Charrues” Festival in
glimpse of some of the ma- released.” Chaiken found himself do- Carhaix, western France.
terial when the Bob Dylan The archive is a goldmine ing a deep dive on the ses- Associated Press
Center opens in the city’s for Dylan fans. sions that would become
downtown Brady Arts Dis- There are pages of unre- the album titled “John that the archive was com- else was zagging.
trict in about two years. The corded verses — one for Wesley Harding.” ing to Tulsa last year, it Dylan did it his way again
center will, fittingly, occupy a song called “No Particu- “To hear the alternate raised a few highbrow eye- last year when he was
another part of a building lar Length of Time”— lyr- versions to ‘All Along the brows among those who awarded the Nobel Prize
that houses a museum de- ics scrawled across hotel Watchtower,’ it was amaz- wondered why it wasn’t in Literature, but declined
voted to Oklahoma-born stationary; pocket memo ing,” Chaiken said. going to an Ivy League to attend the traditional
Woody Guthrie, one of books of every shape and “He’s like a Miles Davis school, for example, or a Nobel Prize banquet in De-
Dylan’s major influences. color, filled with notes on character when he goes much larger city like New cember, citing other com-
The George Kaiser Fam- royalty rates and tele- into the studio, there’s so York or Los Angeles, or mitments.
ily Foundation and the Uni- phone numbers for nota- much improvisation go- even to Minnesota, where It was announced Wednes-
versity of Tulsa announced bles like Allen Ginsberg and ing on and moving things the singer is from. Curators day that he’ll accept his
last year that the collection John Lennon. Faxes from around, trying to find the explained then that the diploma and medal this
had been acquired from former President Jimmy rhythm.” move was vintage Dylan weekend while performing
Dylan for an estimated $15 Carter and Rolling Stones When it was announced —zigging when everybody concerts in Stockholm.q

Expanded audiobook of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ coming next week

HILLEL ITALIE ordeal of Offred, who had
AP National Writer recorded her story on a
NEW YORK (AP) — Marga- set of cassette tapes. “Are
ret Atwood hasn’t quite there any questions?” is the
finished telling “The Hand- final line. “The roots of ‘The
maid’s Tale.” The Canadi- Handmaid’s Tale’ are in
an author has provided ad- audio — Offred’s story was
ditional material for a spe- recorded, not written, and
cial audio edition coming even the ‘Historical Notes’
out next week exclusively are a voice — so I was ex-
from audio producer and cited to extend the story
distributor Audible.com, for Audible with additional
which is owned by Ama- material meant specifically
zon.com. The audiobook to be heard,” Atwood said
expands upon a version in a statement.
released in 2012 and nar- “’The Handmaid’s Tale
rated by Claire Danes, Au- ends’ with ‘Are there any
dible told The Associated questions?’ With this new
Press on Tuesday. Atwood’s special audio edition, I’ve
novel, as related through a added the questions and
handmaid known as “Of- answers that I think the
fred,” imagines a dysto- people at that symposium, In this June 9, 2015 file photo, author Margaret Atwood poses to promote her novel, “The Heart
pian republic named Gil- occurring in 2195, might Goes Last” in Toronto.
ead in which women have ask. It was an engrossing Associated Press
lost their rights and even challenge for me to revisit
their identities. The original that last scene of the book Tale.’”Atwood’s prize-win- that has sold strongly since aptation, released through
book ends with a section and address some ques- ning novel was first pub- the election of Donald the Hulu streaming service,
called “Historical Notes,” tions that I know many lished in 1985, but has re- Trump as president. Interest that is scheduled for re-
a 22nd-century academic readers and listeners have turned to best-seller charts in “The Handmaid’s Tale” lease April 26. The TV pro-
symposium discussing the had, over the years, after as part of a wave of works has become even greater duction stars Elisabeth Moss
now-fallen Gilead and the finishing ‘The Handmaid’s on the loss of democracy in anticipation of a TV ad- as Offred.q