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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

Ray Harryhausen

By: Joe Alterio

Harryhausen’s animation is not realistic… it’s magical.

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Lafcadio Hearn

By: Tom Nealon

He documented Creole cuisine at the moment of its invention.

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Skelton Knaggs

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He transformed physical dissonance into spiritual beauty.

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Erskine Childers

By: Joshua Glenn

He pioneered the open-air adventure thriller.

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Billy Wilder

By: Brian Berger

His Cold War movies predict Pynchon’s seriocomic acuities.

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Kris Kristofferson

By: Jerrold Freitag

Takin’ ev’ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

By: Mark Kingwell

We are condemned to be free.

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Audie Murphy

By: Tucker Cummings

He won every available U.S. military combat award for valor.

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Coot Grant

By: Brian Berger

She thrived in any musical context: jazz, blues, hokum, pop.

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Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards

By: David Smay

As big as Bing, but he died in obscurity.

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Fernando Pessoa

By: Anthony Miller

“Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.”

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Irving Howe

By: Joshua Glenn

He refused to become “mature” or “realistic.”

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Howlin’ Wolf

By: Devin McKinney

Music as volatile as bare wires, as raw as a flayed body.

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Judy Garland

By: Adam McGovern

The embodiment of What You Didn’t Talk About.

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Johnny Ace

By: Devin McKinney

He gave an embryonic rock‘n’roll its supernatural cred.

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