Kyle Smith’s article, “He’s Not (All) There,” (PostScript, 4/13) is very amusing.
In 1994, we cringed when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Yasser Arafat.
In 2007, we laughed when the Academy Award was awarded to Al Gore for what is, in essence, a home movie starring a block of ice.
Last week, we cried when the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Bob Dylan, a talentless academic reject, for writing English prose.
What’s next? The Chef of the Year Award to Ronald McDonald?
Elio Valenti, Brooklyn
Smith shows a complete lack of understanding regarding Dylan’s songwriting.
He takes only small bits of song lyrics and tries to display them in a fashion that makes a comparison to Dewey Cox songs from the movie “Walk Hard.”
His agenda here is crystal clear. However, the biggest indictment of the article is the sloppy research.
Smith admits that he’s only writing about the first page that his Dylan lyric book happened to open to. So he admits that he didn’t even read the great body of Dylan’s works.
He then takes comments out of context to try to make his point, something that anyone who is remotely acquainted with Dylan can see through.
His biggest sin is that his research is so superficial that he couldn’t even identify Dylan’s 2001 album was “Love and Theft,” not “Modern Times.”
John Rossiter, Orlando, Fla.