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“I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows.”

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Shockingly vital and hysterical, yet serenely stoic

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A founding member of the Bouzingos.

By: Peggy Nelson

From a contradiction, you can deduce everything.

By: Franklin Bruno

A brilliant, principled actress typecast as a ditz or naïf.

By: Brian Berger

A composer and song collector about whom you’ve never heard.

By: Brian Berger

His empathy made Ives a superior artist.

By: Amanda French

What linked her lowbrow mysteries and highbrow scholarship?

By: Adrienne Crew

Beware!!! It’s… the avatar of lowbrow schlock-producers!!!

By: Joshua Glenn

A child’s garden of verses overrun by drunken mermaids!

By: Mark Kingwell

He ended up a cocoa-butter shell of a man.

By: Franklin Bruno

“I use all my skills to make situations as chaotic as possible.”

By: Lynn Peril

An almost unbearably emotive voice.

By: Tor Aarestad

German history, anti-norm­ativity, and structur­alism.

By: Adam McGovern

In the end, his assassin proved more influential than he did.