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Bob Dylan is being sued by a France-based Croatian organization for alleged racism following an interview last year in which the music legend loosely compared Croats and Nazis.

France has strict laws against hate speech, and the Council of Croats in France says it wants an apology from Dylan.

His "comments were an incitement to hatred," Vlatko Maric, the group's secretary said, according to The Guardian.

Just last month, Dylan was awarded France's Legion d'Honneur.

Dylan's comments came in an interview with Rolling Stone in 2012, when he was asked to comment on present-day America. Dylan said the U.S. was too focused on race.

"It's a distraction. People at each other's throats just because they are of a different color. It's the height of insanity, and it will hold any nation back – or any neighborhood back. Or any anything back. Blacks know that some whites didn't want to give up slavery – that if they had their way, they would still be under the yoke, and they can't pretend they don't know that. If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood.

"It's doubtful that America's ever going to get rid of that stigmatization. It's a country founded on the backs of slaves."

If nothing else, the Republican National Committee has gotten people thinking about Rosa Parks.

Of course, the RNC also gave its political opponents a chance to mock the GOP with its poorly worded tweet Saturday marking the 58th anniversary of the African-American civil rights activist's refusal to give up her bus seat to a white person, an event that sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.

"Today we remember Rosa Parks' bold stand and her role in ending racism," read the tweet that caused Twitter rage, triggering a snark avalanche on the RNC's alleged cluelessness about racism's continued existence.

The RNC acknowledged the problem the next day: "Previous tweet should have read 'Today we remember Rosa Parks' bold stand and her role in fighting to end racism.' "

In other words, we get it, was the RNC's message.

While the gaffe was relatively minor, it plays into the damaging narrative about the Republican Party — that it only pays lip service to the notion of increasing its appeal to minority voters. Indeed, from voter ID to immigration, the party is widely viewed as hostile to minority voters. So the tweet fit a stereotype about the party.

It's the same weakness the GOP's "Growth and Opportunity Project" — also known as its post-2012 general election "autopsy" — spoke to. Even some high-profile African-Americans like J.C. Watts, the former congressman from Oklahoma, have conceded that the party's efforts, including the GOP project on the minority outreach front, have so far been more rhetoric than reality.

It may be a long time, if ever, before the GOP reaches the point where a misstep like the Rosa Parks tweet isn't read by the left like a Freudian slip. But it's probably more doable than, say, ending racism.

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

Three unpublished stories by J.D. Salinger have been leaked online, seemingly from the eBay auction of a rare and unauthorized volume called Three Stories. The stories have previously been available only for viewing in research libraries. Salinger scholar Kenneth Slawenski told BuzzFeed that the three stories seem to be genuine: "While I do quibble with the ethics (or lack of ethics) in posting the Salinger stories, they look to be true transcripts of the originals and match my own copies." One of the stories, "An Ocean Full of Bowling Balls," is a companion story to The Catcher in the Rye, and is available for supervised viewing in the Princeton University library. A Princeton spokesperson told The Guardian, "The story is probably an unauthorised version transcribed longhand in our reading room." The other two stories, "Paula" and "Birthday Boy," are at the University of Texas's Harry Ransom Center. Salinger was fiercely private, and likely would have been upset by the leak. When a group of fans tried to put together an unauthorized collection of stories in the 1970s, Salinger told The New York Times, "I wanted [the stories] to die a perfectly natural death. I'm not trying to hide the gaucheries of my youth. I just don't think they're worthy of publishing." He added, "I just want all this to stop."

In an appearance on CBS' 60 Minutes, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced prototype delivery drones, or "Octocopters," that the company hopes to use to "get packages into customers' hands in 30 minutes or less." A video of a prototype Octocopter shows a worker in an Amazon warehouse putting an order in a box and placing it on a conveyer belt. A boxy, four-legged machine then picks up the box and flies it to a customer's home. But according to Amazon's YouTube page, delivery drones won't be ready anytime soon: "Putting Prime Air into commercial use will take some number of years as we advance technology and wait for the necessary FAA rules and regulations."

Andr Schiffrin, the longtime publisher of Pantheon Books and the founder of the New Press, died Sunday at age 78. In 1990, he was fired from Pantheon for refusing to cut either his catalogue or his staff, resulting in a scandal that, as The New York Times reported, "made headlines, prompted resignations by colleagues, led to a protest march joined by world-renowned authors, and reverberated across the publishing industry in articles and debates."

The poet, translator and Soviet dissident writer Natalya Gorbanevskaya died Friday at age 77. Held in a psychiatric hospital from 1969 until 1972 as a result of her opposition to Soviet human rights abuses, she was one of the founders of the underground magazine The Chronicle of Current Events. In a poem translated into English by Daniel Weissbort, Gorbanevskaya writes:

"Poor Europe, my cemetery verses are proof of a powerlessness,

irreparable love to the end,

a last grimace of the face,

yourself, marked with a network of slits

of trenches, when soldiers don't matter

but there's freedom for the breeze,

for trucks and armored cars."