John Dos Passos
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His U.S.A. trilogy is the ne plus ultra of avant-garde historical fiction.
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Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.
A Rondel for HiLo Heroes (2)
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Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2010.
Read This PostJohn Hartford
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He fused old-timey vernacular, post-Dylan poetics, and orchestral pop.
Read This PostKenneth Rexroth
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He wrote poetry of love glimpsed as a mystery from within the teeth of sex.
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Fritz Lang
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He tapped into the era’s anxieties — crime, mechanization, new media.
Read This PostAnna Freud
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She cataloged the means by which the ego limits anxiety and displeasure.
Read This PostAnn Stanford
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Much has been said of those like gods. Now hear her speak of Nixon and Reagan.
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