The Bob Dylan Book Club’s Book-of-the-Month for March 2026 is Michael Glover Smith’s brand new Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think. The book will be released on March 2nd, so circle that date or pre-order the book now. Our meeting is usually on the 2nd Sunday of the month, but we’ve set the date as March 22nd to give you an extra week to read. Michael will attend our meeting!
Christopher Vanni will lead our discussion. Christopher is the 2007 recipient of the Pell Award for excellence in U.S. History, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Providence College. He's the creator of a Bob Dylan Quiz, and writes about Bob Dylan. He's an ardent supporter of the music of Gene Clark.

Michael Glover Smith is a Chicago-based filmmaker, author, and college professor. His most recent feature film, HEKLA, will have its world premiere in March 2026. His previous feature, the award-winning RELATIVE, stars Wendy Robie (TWIN PEAKS) and is distributed by Music Box Films. It was the 23rd highest-grossing movie in the U.S. during its first week in release in 2022. His other work includes MERCURY IN RETROGRADE (2017), starring French film icon Roxane Mesquida (FAT GIRL), RENDEZVOUS IN CHICAGO (2018), and COOL APOCALYPSE (2015). His first book, FLICKERING EMPIRE: HOW CHICAGO INVENTED THE U.S. FILM INDUSTRY (Columbia University Press, 2015), co-written with Adam Selzer, is an acclaimed non-fiction study of film production in Chicago during the silent-movie era. His second book, BOB DYLAN AS FILMMAKER: NO TIME TO THINK, will be published by McNidder & Grace in March 2026.

Find Michael on social media:
Michael’s website: www.michaelgloversmith.com
Instagram: @whitecitycinema
Facebook: Michael Smith
X: @whitecitycinema
Blue Sky: @whitecitycinema.bksy.social

Bob Dylan as Filmmaker is getting lots of buzz because of the unique focus of the book and the renown of the author in the Dylan world! Some of the best Dylan writers—Erin Callahan, Laura Tenschert, Andrew Muir, Scott Warmuth, and Matthew Ingate—have posted supportive comments on Amazon, click HERE.
Podcasts with Michael:
Michael and Henry Bernstein discuss Tempest on Henry’s podcast Songs of Experience: HERE.
Michael and Laura Tenschert discuss Bob Dylan as Filmmaker on Laura’s pocast Definitely Dylan: HERE.
Michael and Laura Tenschert discuss A Complete Unknown on Laura’s podcast, Definitely Dylan: HERE.
Michael discusses MASKED AND ANONYMOUS with the Bob Dylan Fan Club's Kait Runevitch: HERE.
A review by Matthew Ingate HERE.
Conversation with Michael on Erin Callahan’s podcast series, Infinity Goes Up On Trial: HERE.
Review on New Books: HERE.
A brief review and announcement: HERE.
Audio review at WDCB: HERE

Bob Dylan’s restless search for artistic expression has led him to study and practice many different forms of creative expression: songs (of course), but also prose, drawing and painting, film, and iron gates. Cinema was always high on his list, as readers of his book Chronicles Volume One (2004) will know. He is inspired by film and often alludes to movie plots and characters in his songs. He has produced a series of paintings that are freeze-frame scences from Film Noir films, of which he seems to have a deep appreciation. An then there is Motorpsycho Nightmare (from his fourth album, Another Side of Bob Dylan), let this note be your excuse to put that song on your playlist!