There are all these stories about the uproar when Dylan went electric back in ’65, so I found this little mention from today’s Writer’s Almanac quite amusing:
It was only after he enrolled in the University of Minnesota that Dylan became interested in folk music. He heard a record by the folk singer Odetta in 1958 and immediately went out and traded his electric guitar for an acoustic.
Also amusing: early in his writing career, Michael Chabon was asked to model clothing for The Gap.
He and Dylan share a birthday today.