A Complete Unknown: Bob Dylan's Forgotten Avant-Garde Novel, Tarantula - MEOW Literary Podcast, Ep. 40

This podcast is a presentation of ⁠The Meow Library⁠.

The release of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown has revived interest in Dylan's obscure 1971 "prose poetry collection,"Tarantula⁠. A Dadaist stream-of-consciousness that sits somewhere between Joyce and an early AI phishing bot, Tarantula has been widely dismissed, but has enjoyed a critical resurgence in recent years. In this podcast, we recite a lengthy passage of this strange and polarizing work. Allegedly written under the influence of a heavy dose of Benzedrine in a Tucson café, it consists entirely of variations of the word "meow."

Bob Dylan's messy, forgotten avant-garde novel - a predecessor of The Meow Library

This podcast is sustained by sales of our avant-garde "meow" translation of Nietzsche's ⁠Thus Spoke Zarathustra⁠.