Boy from the North Country

03/01/2026
60 min
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A son returns to his dying mother and uncovers the astonishing truths of her life, her wisdom, and her creatively intense, turbulent romance with Bob Dylan – an artist he reveres and whom strangers claim he resembles. Boy from The North Country, Sam Sussman’s acclaimed autofictional debut (“A remarkable novel” – Tony Kushner), draws on his Harper’s Magazine memoir The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son. He joins Alice Sherwood to discuss family, identity, and memory.

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Sam Sussman

Sam Sussman grew up in the Hudson Valley. He graduated with a BA from Swarthmore College and an MPhil from the University of Oxford and has lived in Berlin and Jerusalem. His writing has been recognized by BAFTA and published in Harper’s Magazine. He lives in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Manhattan and his native Hudson […]

Alice Sherwood

Alice Sherwood is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at The Policy Institute at King’s College London and author of the award-wining Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture (Harper Collins, 2022). She has served as a judge of the Wingate Literary Prize, and as a trustee of the London Library and the Hay Festival Foundation. […]

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Boy from the North Country

03/01/2026
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60 min

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Sam Sussman

Sam Sussman grew up in the Hudson Valley. He graduated with a BA from Swarthmore College and an MPhil from the University of Oxford...

Alice Sherwood

Alice Sherwood is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at The Policy Institute at King’s College London and author of the award-wining Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality...