By: Lucy Sante

Luc Sante on Spoonie Gee’s “Spoonin’ Rap” (1979)

By: HILOBROW

Kicking off this summer’s ENTHUSIASM series!

By: Joshua Glenn

His pet lobster was guerrilla street theater

By: William Nericcio

The monkey grammarian plagued by conjunctions and disjunctions.

By: Matthew Battles

He appealed to the bright canoe.

By: William Nericcio

The Cuban writer who was the toast of 1960s-70s Paris.

By: Amanda French

A poetess with a talent for assured incongruity.

By: Alix Lambert

His wit, his sculpture, and his being have proven influential.

By: Tucker Cummings

He was dis­illusioned by the materialism of modern Japan.

By: Brian Berger

The painter’s substantial literary achievement is less well-known.

By: Joshua Glenn

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2012.

By: Jerrold Freitag

Everything was a reagent for her compositions.

By: Tucker Cummings

His poetry still seems experimental and forward-thinking today.

By: Greg Rowland

“Žižek the ‘Z’, Super-Fast-Special Word-Bee!”

By: Greg Rowland

“U is Umberto, likes comics and prose”