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Joshua Glenn is an editor, publisher, and a freelance writer and semiologist. He does business as KING MIXER, LLC. He's cofounder of the websites HiLobrow, Significant Objects, and Semionaut; and cofounder of HiLoBooks, which will reissue six Radium Age sci fi novels in 2012. In 2011, he produced and co-designed the iPhone app KER-PUNCH. He's coauthored and co-edited TAKING THINGS SERIOUSLY, THE IDLER'S GLOSSARY, THE WAGE SLAVE'S GLOSSARY, the story collection SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS (forthcoming from Fantagraphics), and the kids' field guide to life UNBORED, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. In the '00s, Glenn was an editor and columnist at the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; he started the IDEAS blog Brainiac. In the '90s, he published the seminal intellectual zine Hermenaut; co-directed the DIY social networking site Tripod.com; and was an editor at Utne Reader. He has written frequently for Slate, n+1, Cabinet, io9, The Baffler, Feed, and The Idler. Glenn manages the secret society Hermenautic Circle. He was born and raised in Boston, where he lives with his wife and sons. Click here for more info.