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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

Bobo Shaw

By: Lucy Sante

Tearing up time signatures.

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Edward Abbey

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A voice crying out in — and for — the American wilderness.

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Alison Steele

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Her tone invited, enfolded, and accepted you.

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Stanley Booth

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He danced with the devil.

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A Rondel for HiLo Heroes (2015)

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Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2015.

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Elisha Cook Jr.

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Tight-lipped cool and shifty-eyed rage.

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Romer Wilson

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Her characters suffer from education, rumination, privilege.

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William Demby

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He wrote a stunning semi-meta­fictional masterpiece.

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Rod Serling

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An uncanny Cold War Hawthorne.

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Muriel Rukeyser

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Poetry as a life-saving form of thought.

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Ellen Swallow Richards

By: Suzanne Fischer

She fought for a place for women in science.

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Julee Cruise

By: Devin McKinney

She was the Lady in the Radiator.

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Mary Oppen

By: Suzanne Fischer

Art, poetry, and the fight against fascism.

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Virgil Thomson

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A multifaceted composer and critic.

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Kon Ichikawa

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Gruesome tenderness, explosively joyful.

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