By: Brian Berger

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

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Flourish Klink

In comparison to the Beliebers, he is a cipher.

By: Franklin Bruno

His is an unwieldy and rarely screened oeuvre.

By: Erik Davis

Woozy chromaticism, electronica goofs, shaggy-dog ragas.

By: Eli Battles

Thirteen ways of looking at HiLo Heroes named GEORGE

By: Jerrold Freitag

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

By: William Nericcio

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

By: Brian Berger

“The greatest blues singer that I ever knew.”

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He spurned all avant-gardes but his own.

By: Tucker Cummings

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

By: Jerrold Freitag

No disparity between what’s funny and what hurts.

By: Flourish Klink

You will take the kangaroo seriously.

By: Jerrold Freitag

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

By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

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