By: Brian Berger

His journalism about white tenant farmers became “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.”

By: Tucker Cummings

An uncontrollable fit of the giggles transitioning to bitter tears.

By: Joshua Glenn

Without his fantasy fiction, no Dungeons & Dragons

By: Tor Aarestad

Dorky chic, unmusically musical, awkwardly sexy.

By: Brian Berger

If RFK hadn’t intervened, MLK would have been “dead as Kelsey’s nuts.”

By: Brian Berger

“I’ve had a struggle all my life. I’m a colored man.”

By: David Smay

He never ceased his restless formal innovations.

By: Mark Kingwell

He called the United States a “moronic inferno,” a phrase that stuck.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

The first to see laughter as a weapon of the oppressed.

By: Lynn Peril

“Once George lays down his glasses, he is quite a different man.”

By: Peggy Nelson

An unshakable belief in the shakiness of reality.

By: Robert Wringham

The Dice canon is all about monkey business.

By: Tucker Cummings

She refused to stay silent while her people were cheated.

By: Jerrold Freitag

All of religion is crazy — not just the crazy parts.

By: Brian Berger

“I had to burn a guy a little and they gave me a little time”