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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." The Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said Dylan, 75, "is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition." She drew parallels between his work and that of ancient Greek poets. View image on Twitter  Follow The Nobel Prize   ✔ @NobelPrize BREAKING 2016  # NobelPrize  in Literature to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” 4:00 PM - 13 Oct 2016  ·  Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden     22,131 22,131 Retweets     14,433 14,433 likes "If you look back, far back, 2,500 years or so, you discover Homer and Sappho and they wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to, that were meant to be performed, often with instruments -- and...

JEFFREY R. STAAB/CBS Bob Dylan will be at the Desert Trip ripoff fest. As he said in his last relevant song, “Lot of water under the bridge. Lot of other stuff, too.” Desert Trip is the toxic stuff at the bottom of that muddy river. Three days of cheese, money, grub and music. To paraphrase that old Woodstock slogan, that’s my take on “Desert Trip,” the three-day Coachella-esque festival featuring The Who, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and others who have not made a relevant contribution to world culture in 20 years (or 30 for the Stones and 40 for The Who). Tickets went on sale at 1 p.m. Eastern time. They aren’t merely expensive. They are outrageous. Like Woodstock, Desert Trip comprises three days. Unlike Woodstock, whose tickets were $18 (the vast majority of which were never even collected), Desert Trip's Oct. 9-11 tickets start at $399 (roughly three times the Woodstock price, in current dollars). ELISE AMENDOLA/AP Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of ...