It's taken 21 years, but Bob Dylan has finished writing part-two of his memoirs, Chronicles II.
Actor Sean Penn, who narrated the abridged audiobook version of Chronicles: Volume One, said, during an appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast, that he's "about to do" the audiobook for "the second one."
In an interview in 2012, Dylan suggested that in the second book he would take a closer look at some of his early albums, including 1963's The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and 1964's Another Side of Bob Dylan.
“It would definitely start with records," said Dylan. "I stumbled into a strategy of going into the future and into the past … The whole early part of the first Chronicles was supposed to be based on some old record – maybe Another Side of Bob Dylan … Someplace in the 1960s. I was going to use that [record] and then I could go into the future.
“Well, what happened was that I … kind of just stayed there, and didn’t really go into the future. When I started writing about the early days in New York, I found it all extremely interesting. When you start doing that, it amazes you what you uncover without even trying.”
Of course, what you may be reading may not be the truth as Dylan has said that he takes a was “novelistic” approach to writing.
And that was the case with the first book with Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin saying, “I enjoy Chronicles as a work of literature, but it has as much basis in reality as Masked and Anonymous [the 2003 movie Dylan was in], and why shouldn’t it? He’s not the first guy to write a biography that’s a pack of lies.”
A source close to Dylan says Simon & Schuster will soon be announcing details of the book.