CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (10)
JOHN LURIE, DISRUPTOR
PLANET OF PERIL (53)
Career novels for boys — they did exist!
27th
May
May
Death Becomes Us
HORROR IS CRUCIAL to human experience. Like sex, innocence, and despair, the fear of death is a wellspring of all kinds of creative activity;...
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26th
May
May
Pam Grier
PAM GRIER (b. 1949) was the Joan of Arc of late-night UHF-TV, when such a thing still existed. Starting with The Big Dollhouse (1971),...
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25th
May
May
Miles Davis
MILES DAVIS (1926-91) was the son of a dentist, but visited a primal Oedipal rebellion upon the smug bourgeois sadism of his father’s profession....
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24th
May
May
Joseph Brodsky
I know it’s a bold claim, but JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-96) just might be the greatest poet ever to be rejected by the Soviet School...
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24th
May
May
Hilo Heroes, May 24-30
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. MAY 24 I know...
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23rd
May
May
Hergé
— Text and illustration by Joe Alterio. To view a gallery of Alterio’s HiLobrow illustrations, click here. *** On his or her birthday, HiLobrow...
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