Ray Harryhausen By: Joe Alterio Harryhausen’s animation is not realistic… it’s magical. Read This Post
Lafcadio Hearn By: Tom Nealon He documented Creole cuisine at the moment of its invention. Read This Post
Skelton Knaggs By: Jacob Mikanowski He transformed physical dissonance into spiritual beauty. Read This Post
Billy Wilder By: Brian Berger His Cold War movies predict Pynchon’s seriocomic acuities. Read This Post
Kris Kristofferson By: Jerrold Freitag Takin’ ev’ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home. Read This Post
Audie Murphy By: Tucker Cummings He won every available U.S. military combat award for valor. Read This Post
Coot Grant By: Brian Berger She thrived in any musical context: jazz, blues, hokum, pop. Read This Post
Fernando Pessoa By: Anthony Miller “Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.” Read This Post
Howlin’ Wolf By: Devin McKinney Music as volatile as bare wires, as raw as a flayed body. Read This Post
