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Bob Dylan's cultural staying power is proving as potent as ever, with a huge auction featuring historic artifacts from the crooner's life and career set for Jan. 18.

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His Timothée Chalamet-lead biopic A Complete Unknown hit theaters this past Christmas. As NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour panel discussed, the film was for some people and a miss for others, and is now the subject of plenty of awards season chatter. (You can hear from the meta-Bob himself, as Chalamet talks to NPR about the challenge of portraying one of the biggest names in American pop culture.)

As for the man himself, Dylan headlined the Outlaw Music Festival last year alongside Willie Nelson, and tweets every once in a while to honor a late friend or a good restaurant. There's no verdict from him on whether he enjoyed the biopic or not.

And if you're desperate for a piece of Dylan memorabilia but don't have several thousand dollars to spend on the auction later this week, you can always purchase a handle of his very own branded whiskey.