Bob Dylan fans may be yearning for new music from the iconic singer-songwriter, but on June 24, 2025, he announced two new projects to tide them over until then: a new book of drawings by the music maverick himself titled Point Blank, and a new audiobook version of his memoir by legendary actor Sean Penn.
“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,” said the book’s description, released by publisher Simon & Schuster.
This book, however, will feature almost 100 black-and-white drawings created by Dylan between 2021 and 2022. Some of the works are already being featured as part of Dylan’s Point Blank exhibition at the Halcyon Gallery in London.
The images “vary between portraits, still lifes, and landscapes,” according to the publisher, with subjects including “roller-skating lovers, a suit of armor, a suspension bridge, a karaoke singer, a roll of Scotch tape, a Parisian canal, a man with a crooked smile,” and more.
“This book showcases Bob Dylan’s mastery of telling stories, creating moods, and provoking feelings,” said S&S VP Sean Manning of the work. “The images are deeply evocative, at once innocent and world-weary, joyous and forlorn, humorous and sensual, enigmatic and familiar.”
The publisher will also be releasing a new, unabridged version of Dylan’s memoir Chronicles: Volume One, and announced it would be narrated by Oscar-winning actor Penn. Both projects are set to release on Nov. 18, 2025, and are currently available for preorder.
Though Dylan often releases different projects, fans are most excited when it comes to his music. It has been half a decade since he’s dropped a new original album; June 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways was his most recent, and the last one before that was in 2012.
