Congratulations to the latest Nobel laureate in Literature, Bob Dylan!  After being twice considered, Dylan was finally honored this year “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Dylan now joins such previous winners as Mario Vargas Llosa, Harold Pinter, Gunter Grass, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, and Saul Bellow.

In this scene from Bob Dylan’s directorial debut, the 232-minute long Renaldo and Clara, Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg pay a visit to Jack Kerouac’s grave.