Bob Dylan is looking pretty busy with new projects beyond music. The folk music legend will be releasing a new art book of drawings, Point Blank (Quick Studies), and an audio book version of his best-selling 2004 memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, narrated by actor Sean Penn, to be released on November 18.
Point Blank (Quick Studies) will include over a hundred of black-and-white illustrations drawn by Dylan between 2021 and 2022. Some of the artworks were featured in the singer-songwriter’s exhibition at Halcyon Gallery in London.
The coffee table art book showcases Dylan’s talents and skills in creating moods and deeply evocative images. Subjects range from roller-skating lovers, a suit of armor, and a roll of Scotch tape to a man with a crooked smile and a karaoke singer.
“Bob Dylan is a master at telling stories, creating moods and provoking feelings — not only in music and the written word but also in visual art, which he has been creating since the 1960s,” written in the book’s description by publisher Simon & Schuster.
Meanwhile, an unabridged audiobook version of Dylan’s memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, will also be released by the publisher.
Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn, the 2004 memoir centers around Dylan’s career in 1961, 1970, and 1989, as he wrote and recorded the Bob Dylan, New Morning and Oh Mercy records, respectively.
Chronicles is planned to be a three-volume collection of memoirs. However, as of this writing, the planned two volumes have yet to be released.
Dylan released his last studio album in 2023 with Shadow Kingdom, his fortieth studio album and a soundtrack album to his 2021 concert film Shadow Kingdom: The Early Songs of Bob Dylan.