By: Lucy Sante

She could make a rising inflection transcend all the bitterness.

By: Lucy Sante

In American humor, she discerned “a deep-lying mood of dis­severance.”

By: Lucy Sante

He was a model for the “gentleman cambrioleur” Arsène Lupin.

By: Lucy Sante

Jules Verne on laudanum, and four other writers rolled into one.

By: Lucy Sante

A founding member of the Bouzingos.

By: Lucy Sante

He was called “the musketeer of anarchy.”

By: Lucy Sante

One of his novels argues that theft is a reasonable career path.

By: Lucy Sante

He was poet laureate of the live ones.

By: Lucy Sante

Robbed a train, recorded with the Sex Pistols.

By: Lucy Sante

He was a great writer and a cautionary tale.

By: Lucy Sante

He was a poet of the urban night.

By: Lucy Sante

Poet, boxer, and enigmatic pioneer of self-invention.

By: Lucy Sante

“Bookworm parrot Legba biker orphan pirate poet.”

By: Lucy Sante

His untranslatable wordplay never fails to dazzle.

By: Lucy Sante

Like knives, the beats cut through layers of murk.