On a Rolling Stone

“Let’s assume that the debate, in basketball or at the blackjack table, remains open. What’s clear is that when it comes to the life of the imagination, the hot hand is a matter of historical fact. Novelists, composers, painters, and poets are apt to experience stretches of intense creativity that might derive from any number of factors … but the streak is undeniably there.” David Remnick on Bob Dylan and the hot hand.