![]() For the right writers, Morrison’s work-particularly the music he made in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and specifically Astral Weeks-is an absolutely transformational muse. While certain artists have inspired works that could fill bookshelves-Dylan, The Beatles, James Brown-Morrison’s literary footprint is less massive, but has had just as much impact. ![]() And then there’s Van Morrison, who’s probably not going to be a surprise Nobel winner-though you never know-but whose literary influence is quietly formidable. and Philip Roth’s The Counterlife right now, if they haven’t already. ends with a lyric envisioning a radically different parallel timeline for Lamar, turning the whole narrative of the album (and Lamar’s life) on its head-meaning that someone’s probably writing an academic paper juxtaposing DAMN. Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning DAMN. Bruce Springsteen’s talked about the influence of Flannery O’Connor on his album Nebraska for decades. For some musicians, the literary connections are obvious: Bob Dylan, for one, even before he ended up taking home the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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