CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (10)

JOHN LURIE, DISRUPTOR

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By Deborah Wassertzug

PLANET OF PERIL (53)

Career novels for boys — they did exist!

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By Lynn Peril

11th
May

Richard Feynman

Was he the original cyberpunk?
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By Tor Aarestad

11th
May

Phil Silvers

Both PHIL SILVERS (1911-1985) and his best-known character, Sergeant Bilko, were driven by a manic energy that sought to control, disrupt, and ultimately collapse...
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By Greg Rowland

11th
May

Venetia Phair (1919–2009) or, Alien Naming Conventions

VENETIA PHAIR (née Burney), who named the planet Pluto, died on April 30 in Banstead, Surrey. She was 90. In March 1930, Eleven-year old...
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By Matthew Battles

11th
May

Hilobrow Cover Art (10)

This is the final installment in our HiLobrow Cover Art series. Thanks to Luc Sante, Jonathan Lethem, and everyone else who sent in examples....
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By Joshua Glenn

10th
May

Marcel Mauss

Dreyfusard and socialist, political activist, gregarious, bohemian and bon vivant, inspiration to Georges Bataille and the Situationists: although his Uncle Emile (Durkheim) was an...
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By Tor Aarestad

10th
May

Donovan

Unfairly dismissed by Sixties rock critics as a fey and twee Dylan wannabe, DONOVAN (born 1946) was clearly the unacknowledged legislator of all things...
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By David Smay

10th
May

Fred Astaire

Choreography is just an idea — the execution is the manifestation.
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By Peggy Nelson

10th
May

HiLo Heroes, May 10-12

HiLobrow gives thanks and praise to Peggy Nelson, David Smay, Mimi Lipson, Tor Aarestad, James Parker, and Greg Rowland, who contributed shout-outs to the...
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