By: Devin McKinney

He gave Surrealism its smell.

By: Tucker Cummings

“I was half-crazy with anger… a woman on fire.”

By: Annie Nocenti

“I’m a whore. I go where I’m kicked.”

By: Alix Lambert

“Pain… calls me over and wants to know the secret of reaching you”

By: William Nericcio

His presence is his lasting act of resistance.

By: Lucy Sante

He brought Surrealism into being.

By: William Nericcio

She clawed a fiction out of the very soul of the Americas.

By: David Smay

The wrong kind of feminist, the wrong kind of novelist.

By: Chris Lanier

He revealed a disquieting intimacy between humans and other animals

By: Mark Kingwell

The philosopher who discovered the hermeneutic circle.

By: Mike Fleisch

“I got a million of ’em.”

By: Anthony Miller

He mixed total irreverence with profound compassion.

By: Alix Lambert

From sharecropping to sharing crops.

By: Tor Aarestad

Topped with dark humor, his social messages went down easily.

By: Tucker Cummings

He loved a good story, no matter what form it took.