Lowlifes

It was his star power, rather than his power to command the stage, that made every hand in the crowd shoot up when Future said, “All my lowlifes for life, put your hands up right now,” as he introduced “Low Life,” his song with The Weeknd.

Each film shook up a tired, bloated movie industry and used a world of lively lowlifes to reflect how dull other movies had become.

What of the characters who don't change or grow but simply bristle onto the page, even the colorful lowlifes pontificating like fevered students in the seminars Bellow taught at the University of Chicago?