After a two-year obligation to the “Peacetime Army” I ended up at the U of M, continuing as a junior in Liberal Arts. It was 1957, but my real education was at The Scholar. I have no bones to pick with either Bobby Zimmerman or Bob Dylan and anyway it matters not a jot what I might think of him/them. What I do find sleazy and irresponsible is your treatment of Scholar owner Clark Batho [“Desire Revisited,” April 2002] whom you assassinate as “a distrusted and despised character” on the word of others who were at that time distrusted by many of us. I would describe Batho simply as a character—which he was in every sense of the word—and that would have been true and sufficient. It may interest you to know that Clark Batho has responsibly grown and sold Christmas trees in Southwest Minneapolis for at least 15 years, and is a much more solid person than your brief, slanderous phrase leaves us with.
Bill Savran, owner
The West Bank’s now-extinct
Savran’s Books
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