One of his key ideas is “anomalous monism.”

“I left Memphis to spread the news / Memphis women don’t wear no shoes”

“The first writer to discover what ‘other planets’ are really good for.”

In comparison to the Beliebers, he is a cipher.

His is an unwieldy and rarely screened oeuvre.

Woozy chromaticism, electronica goofs, shaggy-dog ragas.

Thirteen ways of looking at HiLo Heroes named GEORGE

The ghost in Cash’s machine was Sturm und Drang Romanticism.

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

“The greatest blues singer that I ever knew.”

He spurned all avant-gardes but his own.

He is the best at “over­confident because I’m over­compensating.”

No disparity between what’s funny and what hurts.

You will take the kangaroo seriously.

His smiles, tears, and wall-punching are the best.

His contradictions cohere in his personal anthem to “Question Everything.”

The aviatrix who taught Amelia Earhart how to fly.

“The fingering and pedaling are often of a revolutionary character.”

Informal rule-making and systems of obligation are everywhere.

Prescient in her arguments for a plant-based diet.

A poetess with a talent for assured incongruity.

One of the first real scientists to write science fiction. FWIW.

Forget everything you thought you knew about “Half-Pint” Jaxon.

“I have no desire to cuddle my audience.”