This is the cover of the book "The Monk's Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan and the Perilous Summer of 1966" by Robert Hudson. The book is reviewed by Mitch Finley. (CNS) Help us expand our reach! Please share this article "The Monk's Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan and the Perilous Summer of 1966" by Robert Hudson. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2018). 247 pp., $23. Robert Hudson is a writer and editor, a recognized Bob Dylan scholar and a member of the International Thomas Merton Society, and here is his starting point: "Although (Father Thomas Merton and Bob Dylan) lived their lives a thousand miles apart, their souls were next-door neighbors."