By: Douglas Wolk

One of his production jobs was hilariously disrespectful.

By: Tor Aarestad

Are great chess players brilliant thinkers?

By: Brian Berger

Poet, Jargon Society publisher, inspirator…

By: Franklin Bruno

G.P.’s writing is both ludic and lucid, and anything but inhuman.

By: Lucy Sante

His best stuff hits the ear like music — dirty saloon music.

By: Joshua Glenn

“She told the poor what life is about/And so the rich have rubbed her out.”

By: Lynn Peril

Even if you didn’t know his name, you knew his “Kustom Monsters.”

By: Katie Hennessey

He emerged from the UK like a silly uncle.

By: Greg Rowland

Seuss’ politics aren’t liberal — they’re Situation­ist.

By: Brian Berger

Everybody say “Day-O”!

By: Mark Kingwell

Silent film, German expressionism, and off-kilter Lynchian absurdism

By: Mark Kingwell

His was a hermeneutic approach to phenomen­ology.

By: Douglas Wolk

She’s the secret weapon of American comics

By: Matthew Battles

He attempt­ed the re-enchant­ment of every aspect of modern life.

By: Ingrid Schorr

“I am the king of the divan!”