During his 2022 tour of the U.S. and Europe Bob Dylan was making art in his free time, now, titled Point Blank (Quick Studies), Simon & Schuster will publish those drawings and others in an oversized art book, The book has a publishing date set for November 2025.
The nearly 100 black-and-white drawings were created in 2021 and 2022 and will be paired with prose vignettes by the writers Lucy Sante and Jackie Hamilton, and the producer Eddie Gorodetsky, who worked with Dylan on his radio show and his 2022 book “The Philosophy of Modern Song.”
Many of the drawings depict everyday objects and scenes: a roll of Scotch tape, a karaoke singer, a pair of roller skaters, a suit of armor, a suspension bridge. According to Sean Manning, Simon & Schuster’s vice president and publisher, “There’s a melancholy to them which is quite beautiful, but it’s not without a hopefulness and humor.”
For decades, Dylan kept his artwork private; he didn’t display it publicly until around 2007. Since then, he’s had exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world, including in New York, London and Shanghai, and has released other art books, including The Drawn Blank Series, which was published in 2008.
To coincide with the release of Point Blank, Simon & Schuster is also releasing a newly recorded, unabridged audiobook of Dylan’s 2004 memoir, Chronicles: Volume I, narrated by the actor Sean Penn. It runs 10 hours — twice as long as the earlier version, also narrated by Penn.
