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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

Alex Chilton

By: David Smay

He got an early education in rock’n’roll cynicism.

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Chris Ware

By: William Nericcio

Clockwork micro and macro tragedies awash in self-awareness.

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Mike Watt

By: Tor Aarestad

Both a singular artist and a mensch.

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Arthur C. Clarke

By: Robert Wringham

His was a nuts-and-bolts science fiction.

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Jane Austen

By: Amanda French

Who is your Jane Austen?

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Rudolph von Laban

By: Karinne Keithley Syers

Dance as a place of attuning one’s relation­ship to bio­physical life.

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Stewart Brand

By: Erik Davis

Since the ’60s, a grain-traversing thinker-doer.

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Thomas McGuane

By: Mark Kingwell

Life lessons and manhood-tutorials.

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Emily Dickinson

By: Mark Kingwell

Her slant rhymes were radically proto-modernist.

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John Cassavetes

By: Mike Fleisch

Performances congruent with camera.

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Roy DeCarava

By: Brian Berger

“We must get to the painting of ourselves, our history…”

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Simon Munnery

By: Robert Wringham

A cocktail of wit and chaos.

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Margaret Cho

By: Tucker Cummings

“I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else.”

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Anton Webern

By: Brian Berger

His genius thrived in stages: chromatic, atonal, serial.

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Sarah Silverman

By: Adam McGovern

It’s never too late to be too soon.

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