4Q2015 Sneak Peek
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September 27, 2015
Here’s a preview of HILOBROW’s publishing plans for October, November, and December 2015.
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Beginning in October, and running three times a week for eighteen weeks…
HiLobrow stalwart John Hilgart has asked 54 people to contribute to the HERMENAUTIC TAROT — a comic-book rorschach creative writing experiment in symbol-making and oracular speechifying. The tarot deck in question, which draws on imagery from Hilgart’s own 4CP archive, actually exists. In addition to divination, the Hermenautic Tarot can be used for other purposes, e.g., as a generative device or game. But you’ll want to use it for divination, we promise.
Contributors to this series will include HiLobrow regulars and friends. So far, for example:
HERMENAUTIC TAROT SERIES: INTRODUCTION by John Hilgart | Annie Nocenti on THE KUBRICK | Deborah Wassertzug on AS YOU LIKE IT | Douglas Rushkoff on PIXELATED | Kim Cooper on THE GREAT INTEGRATION | Tom Nealon on THE MYOPIC CAPTAIN | Stephanie Burt on ENTANGLEMENT | Mark Kingwell on THE WARY WATCHERS | Allegra Huston on PARANOIA | Flourish Klink on THE MULTIFACETED MAN | Jason Grote on THE UNEXPECTED | Jessamyn West on THE SHIFT | John Hilgart on THE B-MOVIE MONSTER | Josh Glenn on THE SELL-OUT | Judith Zissman on THE EXPLODING SUPERNOVAS | Mandy Keifetz on THE INVISIBLE MAN | Gary Panter on THE PASSAGE | Jordan Ellenberg on THE FALSE FACE | Jonathan Lethem on THE GRAVE ROBBERS | Douglas Wolk on DEXTERITY | John Holbo on THE HEAVIEST HEADS | Colin Dickey on KAIROS | Molly Sauter on THE GRAND EXIT | Matthew Battles on ADUMBRATION | Anindita Basu Sempere on THE DETECTIVE | Gordon Dahlquist on THE STREAMER | Jen Collins on OFF COURSE | Karinne Keithley Syers on THE HIGH BEAMS | Sara Ryan on RORSCHACH (NOT THAT ONE) | Deb Chachra on FLYING | Mimi Lipson on EUPHORIA | Cintra Wilson on FEELING CORNERED? | Alice Boone on THE FLAWS | Shelley Jackson on HESITATING HORSE | Jacob Covey on THE PANE | Claire Lehmann on THE APPARITION | Kio Stark on THE FLIGHT RISK | Joanne McNeil on THE RELUCTANT COMMUTER | Lynn Peril on THE WAITING MAN | Jenny Offill on THE VALLEY OF UNREST | Luc Sante on THE OLD DARK HOUSE | Erik Davis on FORBIDDEN FRUIT | Devin McKinney on THE ATOMS | Dan Fox on THE OBFUSCATOR | Patrick Cates on THE MASKED ASSESSOR | Chris Spurgeon on OVERWHELMING TEMPTATION | Jenny Davidson on THE ALL-SEEING EYE | Lauren Oliver on THE HERO COMPLEX | Brian Berger on THE WHITE VISITATION | Tim Spencer on DISILLUSIONMENT | Chelsey Johnson on THE BEARD OF SHADOWS | Alix Lambert on THE EYE FLOATER | Ed Park on THE TWINS | James Parker on THE NO-NO-NOBOT | Amy Thielen on VELOCITY | Lisa Jane Persky on EXPECTATIONS | Veda Hille on THE DUSTY REVEAL | Wayne Chambliss on THE RIDE-ALONG | Kenya (Robinson) on BALANCE BEAM | Ken Layne on THE DOPPELGÄNGER | David Levine on THE GROOVY | Joe Alterio on THE DROP-OFF | Jennifer Krasinski on PREDATORY VIGILANCE | Libi Rose on ELECTROMAGNETISM | Carl Wilson on THE TRACKER | Mimi Zeiger on THE RED MOON | Vanessa Berry on DARK MATTER | Peter Doyle on THE CHAIN OF FOOLS | Joy Press on THE WAYLAYER | Sarah Weinman on IN THE CORNER | Stephanie De Gooyer on THE INVASION | James Hannaham on THE URBAN HAWK | Annalee Newitz on THE PUBLIC CHARIOT | Jace Clayton on THE BLEACHED FLAG | Chenjerai Kumanyika on THE VEIL | Mike Watt on THE FLOCK | Molly Wright Steenson on PILE-ON PYLON | Melissa Gira Grant on THE FRONT DESK | Madeline Ashby on THE DEVILS.
This series will, we expect, eventually be published in print form as part of an instructional and inspirational booklet. CHECK OUT THE 4CP ARCHIVE.
Over the course of 4Q2015, we will add a couple dozen new installments to our long-running HILO HEROES series, including the following:
Tor Aarestad on Richard Hell. Brian Berger on Dick Gregory, Victoria Spivey, and Dory Previn. Erik Davis on Wassily Kandinsky. Suzanne Fischer on Mary Oppen and Ellen Swallow Richards. Amanda French on Bob Mould and Sylvia Plath. Mark Kingwell on Henri Bergson and Lewis Mumford. Devin McKinney on Gore Vidal, Arlene Smith, Laud Humphreys, and Julee Cruise. Anthony Miller on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Paul Thek. Tom Nealon on Kool Keith. Karinne Keithley Syers on Muriel Rukeyser.
NOTE: Although we may still add a few posts to this series, going forward, as of the end of 2015 we’re more or less wrapping up the HILO HEROES series. It’s been an amazing run: Over 1,400 posts, since 2009!
In 4Q2015, we’ll publish the following lit lists, assembled and annotated by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn:
- A 65th-anniversary list of the 10 Best Adventures of 1950 — from Mickey Spillane’s My Gun is Quick to Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train to C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
- A 55th-anniversary list of the 10 Best Adventures of 1960 — from Geoffrey Household’s Watcher in the Shadows to Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade to Hergé’s Tintin in Tibet.
- A 50th-anniversary (as of 2016) list of the 10 Best Adventures of 1966 — from Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 to Lionel Davidson’s hunted-man adventure A Long Way to Shiloh to Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17.
- A 45th-anniversary list of the 10 Best Adventures of 1970 — from Philip K. Dick’s A Maze of Death to Peter Dickinson’s The Devil’s Children to James Dickey’s Deliverance.
- A 35th-anniversary list of the 10 Best Adventures of 1980 — from Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed to Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker.
HiLoBooks will continue to serialize the following adventures, here at HILOBROW:
- Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1928 sci-fi novella When the World Screamed. In the fifth and final Professor Challenger adventure, Challenger proposes to drill his way eight miles beneath the planet’s epidermis. Our serialization will conclude in November.
- James Branch Cabell’s 1919 comical fantasy Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice. The titular protagonist seduces women everywhere he travels — including into Arthurian legend and Hell itself. Our serialization will conclude in March.
We’ll have a think about whether we want to begin serializing any other adventures, in 4Q2015. We might decide to take a break. For more information about HiLoBooks, and the 10 Radium Age science fiction novels we’ve reissued in gorgeous paperback format, please visit the HiLoBooks homepage.
October, November, and December 2015 will see the publication of new installments in various ongoing HiLobrow series, as well as some new series, too.
- We’ll launch JOSHENILIA, a series dedicated, for better or worse, to Josh Glenn’s juvenilia.
- We’ll post new installments in the semiotic CODE-X series, which surfaces and dimensionalizes a few of the “codes” that make up the a priori network of classifications, categories, and concepts through which each of us intuitively makes sense of everyday life.
- We’ll post new installments in the RADIUM AGE 100 series, which aims to identify the best science fiction from 1904–33. Installments will include: Gustave Le Rouge’s Le Prisonnier de la Planète Mars (1908), Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915), Olaf Stapledon’s The Last and First Men (1930), Maurice Renard’s The Blue Peril (1910), Frigyes Karinthy’s Voyage to Faremido: Gulliver’s Fifth Voyage (1916), H. Rider Haggard’s When the World Shook (serialized 1918–1919), Philip Gordon Wylie’s Gladiator (1930), J.D. Beresford’s The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911), Edward Shanks’s The People of the Ruins (1920), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), David Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1921), and Karel Čapek’s R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots (1920/21).
- We’ll post new installments in Douglas Wolk’s LIMERICKANIA series, featuring limericks inspired by comic-book details from John Hilgart’s 4CP archive.
- Hopefully, we’ll launch a curated series of TV and movie writing posts published elsewhere by HiLobrow contributor Jacob Mikanowski….
- Plus other series.
Stay tuned!
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