Dave Hickey is one of contemporary art's most unpretentious critics. He has written for Rolling Stone, Art in America and Artforum, and he's published a slew of books on art and pop culture. He's far more interested in the democratic aspects of the art world--the way people make and buy objects simpl

Playful, Psychedelic, Sardonic, Witty

One of the preeminent figures of contemporary literature, David Foster Wallace has assembled the variety of his influences – Jorge Luis Borges, John Barth, Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon – and saved them from the self-immolation it seemed that academia was increasingly drawing them t

Anxiety, Citational, Complex, Expansive, Layered, Postmodern fiction, Sincere, Slangy, Smart, Subtle, Witty

Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their rele

Atmospheric, Bubblicious, Distorted, Ecstatic, Experimental, Funny, Hypnotic, Layered, Loose, Perceptual, Playful, Psychological, Sophisticated, Surreal, Wise assy, Witty

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions

Baroque, Erotic, Feminist, Intimate, Open-ended, Playful, Polychromatic, Sophisticated, Spiritual, Sublime, Witty