New & Noteworthy, From Bob Dylan to the Bay Area
May 18, 2021
Recent titles of interest:
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF BOB DYLAN: A Restless, Hungry Feeling (1941-1966), by Clinton Heylin. (Little, Brown, $30.) Heylin, the author of “Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades,” revisits his subject’s early years with access to newly archived material.
THE END OF THE GOLDEN GATE: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco, edited by Gary Kamiya. (Chronicle, paper, $17.95.) In these essays celebrating San Francisco’s enduring beauty and fluid nature, notable Bay Area writers ponder recent changes that have driven many people to flee.
MAYFLIES, by Andrew O’Hagan. (McClelland & Stewart, $22.95.) This tender, heartfelt novel centers on the friendship among a group of young Scottish men obsessed with music and movies in the 1980s, recalled from the vantage of three decades later when one learns he’s dying of cancer.