A new memoir, “Another Side of Bob Dylan,” features stories from a longtime sidekick of the musician’s, offering a glimpse behind the scenes before a bitter fallout in 1997.
The host of “A Prairie Home Companion” and the author, most recently, of “The Keillor Reader” collects hymnals, phrase books and tales of heroic collies.
“The Magician’s Land,” the final volume of Lev Grossman’s trilogy for grown-ups, evokes that breathless, stay-up-all-night, thrumming excitement of reading as a child.