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VIDEO: CROSSING THE JACK RUBY CON - Author Danny Fingeroth on Dylan, JFK, Comic Books, and Oswald's Assassin

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Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Video Podcast.  My special guest today is Danny Fingeroth, who, in addition to being a fellow admirer of Bob Dylan, is a published author. His most recent book. JACK RUBY - THE MANY FACES OF OSWALD’S ASSASSIN , was published by The Chicago Review Press this past November, 21. INTERVIEW WITH DANNY FINGEROTH, DECEMBER 12, 2023 Danny Fingeroth is a biographer and cultural historian/commentator, specializing in the intersection of Jewish and American cultures. He’s the author of Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent . His acclaimed 2019 biography of Stan Lee, A Marvelous Life , is a laser-sharp look at this controversial figure—the innovative force behind the beginnings of Marvel Comics. Fingeroth has spoken at venues including the Smithsonian Institution and Columbia University, as well as on NBC’s Today Show and NPR’s All Things Considered . He has written commentaries for publications including the Los Angeles Times and the Wall St...

VIDEO: Dylan authors Michael Gray and Ray Padgett discuss their books, the Bob Dylan Center, Budokan, Shadow Kingdom, and their dogs ...

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Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Video Podcast. My guests today are two of the most respected scholars of the music and art of Bob Dylan, Michael Gray and Ray Padgett.  This cross-generational joint interview covers not only their work as authors, but we discuss such subjects as typewriters, critical theories, the Bob Dylan Center, Shadow Kingdom, Budokan, the Rough and Rowdy Way s tour … and dogs. (Boston Harold Video Podcast interview with Michael Gray and Pay Padgett) Michael Gray is a pioneer in the studies of Bob Dylan. In the early 1970s, he published Song and Dance Man , the first serious collection in book form of an exploration of what makes Dylan an important artist, one worthy of academic consideration. The book has been updated twice since then, in the early 1980s and late 1990s. That most recent version, which clocked in at over 900 pages and has been out of print for quite some time, was recently reissued by FM Press in three more manageable volumes - Vol. 1...