By: Alex Gerasev

Margarita rode slowly through the air up to a chalk cliff.

By: Alex Gerasev

After her flew the completely insane waltz.

By: Alex Gerasev

Holding a chess knight in his right paw…

By: Alex Gerasev

“Yesterday you were so good as to do some conjuring tricks…”

By: Alex Gerasev

The man who called himself a master worked feverishly on his novel…

By: Alex Gerasev

“Poet,” Ivan confessed.

By: Alex Gerasev

Huge as a hog, black as soot or as a rook.

By: Alex Gerasev

“Good man! Believe me…”

By: Alex Gerasev

“May I sit down?” the foreigner asked politely.

By: Alex Gerasev

At the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared…

By: Joshua Glenn

Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE FATAL EGGS

By: Joshua Glenn

Mikhail Bulgakov’s HEART OF A DOG

By: Tor Aarestad

In The Master and Margarita MIKHAIL BULGAKOV (1891-1940) created a gang of villains so fantastical and vivid in their descriptions — stocky Azazello with his straw patch of flaming hair hanging down, solitary fang protruding […]

By: HILOBROW

HiLobrow.com thanks Mimi Lipson, David Smay, Peggy Nelson, and Tor Aarestad for these shoutouts to high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes born on the following dates. Click here for more HILO birthdays. Starting next week, […]