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

Bolano’s works are a wash of multiplicities. Art and literature are woven into crime and atrocity; literary culture is a whore to its own vainity; vanity is a strung out pimp in the middle of a thunderstorm; the story of person a: poet, custodian, radical transvestite briefly intersects with and is

Angry, Beautiful , Catastrophe, Chance, Cool, Dark, Death, Enigmatic, Epic, Erotic, Expansive, Experimental, Funny, Gritty, Grotesque, Hypnotic, Loose, Overflowing, Parody, Pathos, Political, Rebel, Saturated, Social revolution, Sophisticated, Spectral, Sublime, Tragic, Violent, Visceral

A minimalist jazz pianist who took bebop to even higher heights, Thelonious Sphere Monk was a unique character and a maverick in the music industry. How else can we describe a man who kept his grand piano in his kitchen? Not interested in using his music to please people, Monk strove to discover ways

Beats, Bebop, Enigmatic, Improvised, Loose, Playful, Quirky, Slangy

While it may seem like a contradiction to speak of chaos and precision in the same sentence, the work of Jackson Pollock demands it. At the same time that his paintings depict disorder, frenetic abandon, and a turbulence of nearly cosmic proportions, they demonstrate perfect balance. The manner in wh

Abstract expressionism, Expansive, Formless, Loose, Playful, Post-war literature, Repetition, Rhythmic