Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan

Re:Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday October 10, 2021 @05:56PM (#28822347)

This was the point of his book (one of?) that he wanted to tell some stories but probably legally couldn’t, so he sprinkled some truths in and called the whole thing made up. It’s pretty practical way to be a celebrity IMO.

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Re:Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan by defen on Sunday October 10, 2021 @06:01PM (#28822374)

I asked him about this once. The primary reason it was structured the way it was, was that he wanted to write a novel but couldn't get any publishers to take him seriously as an author. They only wanted a memoir, so he published a metafictional one.

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Re:Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan by cool_dude85 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:30PM (#28823651)

He also claimed at one point on twitter to be writing a novel under a pen name. Wonder if that's true and if it'll ever be outed, if so.

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Re:Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan by a_bonobo on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:42PM (#28824072)

Similarly, he once met 'with the world's greatest novelist', 'He sees noone', but wouldn't say who: https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/899367320006443008?...

It could've been Thomas Pynchon or it could've been Cormac McCarthy, and now we might never know.

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Re:Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan by defen on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:48PM (#28824107)

https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/953794118139826176 (Terence Keane was the "ghostwriter" of his novel)

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