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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

David Byrne

By: Katie Hennessey

For a guy with no sense of humor, he sure is funny.

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Thomas Gainsborough

By: Devin McKinney

He painted bizarre bone structure and fetal eyeballs.

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Bruce Rogers

By: Tom Nealon

Books can be lovely and readable at the same time.

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Gil Evans

By: Jerrold Freitag

Arranging and rearranging was his witchcraft.

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Lorine Niedecker

By: Suzanne Fischer

No layoff
from this
condensery

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Bernadette Mayer

By: Franklin Bruno

Elected to poetry like a fucking nun with a “vocation.”

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Mari Sandoz

By: Brian Berger

“Cheyenne Autumn” almost made her famous.

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Thomas Pynchon

By: Brian Berger

A military comedy, a corporate espionage tale, a wicked sex romp.

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Don Rickles

By: Dan Reines

A high-wire kind of funny.

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Randall Jarrell

By: Mark Kingwell

From his mother’s sleep he fell into the State.

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Eugenie Clark

By: Deb Chachra

No matter what, the shark research continued.

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Teddy Vann

By: Brian Berger

“Santa Claus Is A Black Man.”

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Terry Southern

By: Adrienne Crew

He mocked authority with irony and absurdity.

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Maria Leach

By: Devin McKinney

Bounteous, macabre, and inexhaustibly mysterious stories.

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Félix Guattari

By: Erik Davis

Rhizomes, assemblages, and abstract machines.

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