HiLobrow 3Q2015

By: HILOBROW
September 30, 2015

Here are a few of HILOBROW’s highlights from July, August, and September 2015!

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CROM YOUR ENTHUSIASM

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In August, we published a series of 25 posts, by 25 contributors, on the topic of our favorite fantasy novels from the Thirties (1934–1943). CROM YOUR ENTHUSIASM — which takes its moniker from Robert E. Howard’s Conan mythos — was our fifth annual ENTHUSIASM series. Here’s the series lineup:

Erik Davis on Jack Williamson’s DARKER THAN YOU THINK | Sara Ryan on T.H. White’s THE SWORD IN THE STONE | Mark Kingwell on C.S. Lewis’s OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET | David Smay on Fritz Leiber’s THIEVES’ HOUSE | Natalie Zutter on Robert E. Howard’s QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST | James Parker on J.R.R. Tolkien’s THE HOBBIT | Adrienne Crew on Dion Fortune’s THE SEA PRIESTESS | Gabriel Boyer on Clark Ashton Smith’s ZOTHIQUE stories | John Hilgart on H.P. Lovecraft’s THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD | Barbara Bogaev on William Sloane’s TO WALK THE NIGHT | Rob Wringham on Flann O’Brien’s THE THIRD POLICEMAN | Dan Fox on Hergé’s THE SEVEN CRYSTAL BALLS | Flourish Klink on C.S. Lewis’s PERELANDRA | Tor Aarestad on L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt’s THE ROARING TRUMPET | Anthony Miller on H.P. Lovecraft’s THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH | Suzanne Fischer on E.R. Eddison’s MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES | Molly Sauter on Herbert Read’s THE GREEN CHILD | Diana Leto on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s TARZAN AND THE LION MAN | Joshua Glenn on Robert E. Howard’s THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON | Andrew Hultkrans on H.P. Lovecraft’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS | Lynn Peril on Fritz Leiber’s CONJURE WIFE | Gordon Dahlquist on H.P. Lovecraft’s THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME | Adam McGovern on C.L. Moore’s JIREL OF JOIRY stories | Tom Nealon on Fritz Leiber’s TWO SOUGHT ADVENTURE | John Holbo on Robert E. Howard’s CONAN MYTHOS.

Josh Glenn is editor of the CROM YOUR ENTHUSIASM series. Thanks, John Holbo, for suggesting the series and title!

PREVIOUS ENTHUSIASMS: KIRB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2011), KIRK YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2012), HERC YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2013), and KERN YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2014).

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AGAINST GROOVY

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In September, HiLobrow published “Daniel Clowes — Against Groovy” — a generational schema-flexing essay contributed by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn to The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations (Fantagraphics, 2013), edited by Ken Parille.

MORE CLOWES on HILOBROW: Josh Glenn’s 1999 Q&A with Daniel Clowes | Josh Glenn’s 2002 Q&A with Daniel Clowes | Daniel Clowes as HiLo Hero.

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ODD ABSURDUM

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In August, HiLobrow published a sixth installment — a coda, really — in Adam McGovern’s Odd Couple-analyzing series ODD ABSURDUM. Whereas the previous installments looked back at themes of the 1970s TV show, this one gets under the hood of the new Matthew Perry/Thomas Lennon iteration.

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SCIENCE FICTION BEST-OF LISTS

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During 3Q2015, HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn created the following pages, here at HILOBROW:

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HILO HEROES

Since July 1, we’ve published over 30 new installments in the HILO HEROES series, bringing the series’ grand total — since we kicked it off back in 2009 — to just about exactly 1,400 items. We’re grateful to the following contributors for the following 3Q2015 HILO HEROES items.

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  • Brian Berger on Ted Joans, Bill Challis, Albert Ayler, Wynona Carr, Alice Coltrane. Barbara Bogaev on Madame Blavatsky. Suzanne Fischer on Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Mike Fleisch on Ben Gazzara.
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  • Josh Glenn on Doug E. Fresh. Mark Kingwell on Henry David Thoreau, Berenice Abbott, Herbert Marcuse, Hank Williams, Paulo Freire. Anthony Miller on James Tiptree Jr.
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  • Devin McKinney on Guy Endore, Ian Curtis, M.R. James, Charles Fort, Cisco Houston, Christopher Isherwood, Ann Bannon. Jacob Mikanowski on Witold Gombrowicz and E.J. Bellocq. Tom Nealon on Terminator X. William Nericcio on Carmen Mondragon and Gus Arriola. Marilyn Berlin Snell on Hans Scharoun.

Josh Glenn is editor of this series.

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CURATED SERIES

In July, August, and September we published the following curated series — by friends of HiLobrow.

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  • We published the remaining installments in POP WITH A SHOTGUN, a series we’ve curated from HiLobrow friend and contributor Devin McKinney’s music-criticism blog of that name.
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  • We published the remaining installments in FALSE MACHINE, a series that analyzes sci-fi and fantasy models and minis in terms of how they utilize mass and space. We’ve curated the series from British blogger Patrick Stuart’s website of that title.

CURATED SERIES at HILOBROW: UNBORED CANON by Josh Glenn | CARPE PHALLUM by Patrick Cates | MS. K by Heather Kasunick | HERE BE MONSTERS by Mister Reusch | DOWNTOWNE by Bradley Peterson | #FX by Michael Lewy | PINNED PANELS by Zack Smith | TANK UP by Tony Leone | OUTBOUND TO MONTEVIDEO by Mimi Lipson | TAKING LIBERTIES by Douglas Wolk | STERANKOISMS by Douglas Wolk | MARVEL vs. MUSEUM by Douglas Wolk | NEVER BEGIN TO SING by Damon Krukowski | WTC WTF by Douglas Wolk | COOLING OFF THE COMMOTION by Chenjerai Kumanyika | THAT’S GREAT MARVEL by Douglas Wolk | LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE by Chris Spurgeon | IMAGINARY FRIENDS by Alexandra Molotkow | UNFLOWN by Jacob Covey | ADEQUATED by Franklin Bruno | QUALITY JOE by Joe Alterio | CHICKEN LIT by Lisa Jane Persky | PINAKOTHEK by Luc Sante | ALL MY STARS by Joanne McNeil | BIGFOOT ISLAND by Michael Lewy | NOT OF THIS EARTH by Michael Lewy | ANIMAL MAGNETISM by Colin Dickey | KEEPERS by Steph Burt | AMERICA OBSCURA by Andrew Hultkrans | HEATHCLIFF, FOR WHY? by Brandi Brown | DAILY DRUMPF by Rick Pinchera | BEDROOM AIRPORT by “Parson Edwards” | INTO THE VOID by Charlie Jane Anders | WE REABSORB & ENLIVEN by Matthew Battles | BRAINIAC by Joshua Glenn | COMICALLY VINTAGE by Comically Vintage | BLDGBLOG by Geoff Manaugh | WINDS OF MAGIC by James Parker | MUSEUM OF FEMORIBILIA by Lynn Peril | ROBOTS + MONSTERS by Joe Alterio | MONSTOBER by Rick Pinchera | POP WITH A SHOTGUN by Devin McKinney | FEEDBACK by Joshua Glenn | 4CP FTW by John Hilgart | ANNOTATED GIF by Kerry Callen | FANCHILD by Adam McGovern | BOOKFUTURISM by James Bridle | NOMADBROW by Erik Davis | SCREEN TIME by Jacob Mikanowski | FALSE MACHINE by Patrick Stuart | 12 DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE | 12 MORE DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE | 12 DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE (AGAIN) | ANOTHER 12 DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE | UNBORED MANIFESTO by Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen | H IS FOR HOBO by Joshua Glenn | 4CP FRIDAY by guest curators

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LIT LISTS

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The following lit lists assembled by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn appeared in 3Q2015.

  • 10 Best Adventures of 1905 from Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel and Kipling’s With the Night Mail to Jack London’s White Fang
  • 10 Best Adventures of 1910 from John Buchan’s Prester John to Louise Gerard’s The Golden Centipede to P.G. Wodehouse’s The Intrusion of Jimmy.
  • 10 Best Adventures of 1920, from Karel Čapek’s R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots to Jeffery Farnol’s Black Bartlemy’s Treasure to Max Brand’s The Night Horseman.
  • 10 Best Adventures of 1930, from Philip Gordon Wylie’s Gladiator to Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon to Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons.

JOSH GLENN’S *BEST ADVENTURES* LISTS: BEST 250 ADVENTURES OF THE 20TH CENTURY | 100 BEST OUGHTS ADVENTURES | 100 BEST RADIUM AGE (PROTO-)SCI-FI ADVENTURES | 100 BEST TEENS ADVENTURES | 100 BEST TWENTIES ADVENTURES | 100 BEST THIRTIES ADVENTURES | 75 BEST GOLDEN AGE SCI-FI ADVENTURES | 100 BEST FORTIES ADVENTURES | 100 BEST FIFTIES ADVENTURES | 100 BEST SIXTIES ADVENTURES | 75 BEST NEW WAVE SCI FI ADVENTURES | 100 BEST SEVENTIES ADVENTURES | 100 BEST EIGHTIES ADVENTURES | 75 BEST DIAMOND AGE SCI-FI ADVENTURES | 100 BEST NINETIES ADVENTURES (in progress) | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | NOTES ON 21st-CENTURY ADVENTURES.

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SERIALIZED FICTION

HiLoBooks serialized the following adventure novels and stories, in 3Q2015.

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  • Hammond Innes’s 1951 espionage/Robinsonade novel Air Bridge. Our serialization wrapped up in July.
  • John Buchan’s 1899 sci-fi novella No Man’s Land. Our serialization wrapped up in September.
  • E.M. Forster’s 1909 sci-fi novella The Machine Stops. Our serialization wrapped up in September.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1928 sci-fi novella When the World Screamed. Our serialization will continue into 4Q2015.
  • James Branch Cabell’s 1919 comical fantasy adventure Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice. Our serialization will continue into 4Q2015 and 1Q2016.

For more information about HiLoBooks, and the 10 Radium Age science fiction novels we’ve reissued in gorgeous paperback format, visit our homepage.

SERIALIZED BY HILOBOOKS: Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague | Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail (and “As Easy as A.B.C.”) | Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Poison Belt | H. Rider Haggard’s When the World Shook | Edward Shanks’ The People of the Ruins | William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land | J.D. Beresford’s Goslings | E.V. Odle’s The Clockwork Man | Cicely Hamilton’s Theodore Savage | Muriel Jaeger’s The Man With Six Senses | Jack London’s “The Red One” | Philip Francis Nowlan’s Armageddon 2419 A.D. | Homer Eon Flint’s The Devolutionist | W.E.B. DuBois’s “The Comet” | Edgar Rice Burroughs’s The Moon Men | Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland | Sax Rohmer’s “The Zayat Kiss” | Eimar O’Duffy’s King Goshawk and the Birds | Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Lost Prince | Morley Roberts’s The Fugitives | Helen MacInnes’s The Unconquerable | Geoffrey Household’s Watcher in the Shadows | William Haggard’s The High Wire | Hammond Innes’s Air Bridge | James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen | John Buchan’s “No Man’s Land” | John Russell’s “The Fourth Man” | E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” | John Buchan’s Huntingtower | Arthur Conan Doyle’s When the World Screamed | Victor Bridges’ A Rogue By Compulsion | Jack London’s The Iron Heel | H. De Vere Stacpoole’s The Man Who Lost Himself | P.G. Wodehouse’s Leave It to Psmith | Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” | Houdini and Lovecraft’s “Imprisoned with the Pharaohs” | Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Sussex Vampire.”

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MORE HILOBROW SERIES

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In July, August, and September 2015, we published new installments in various ongoing HiLobrow series:

  • HILOBROW’s RADIUM AGE 100 series aims to identify the 100 science fiction novels published during the genre’s Radium Age (1904–33) that are most worth reading. During 3Q2015, we published items about Edgar Rice Burroughs’s The Moon Maid, Thea von Harbou’s Metropolis, Monteiro Lobato’s The Negro President, Muriel Jaeger’s The Man With Six Senses, H.P. Lovecraft’s The Color Out of Space, E.E. “Doc” Smith’s The Skylark of Space, Vladimir Mayakovsky’s The Bedbug, Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star, and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s Insatiability (1930), among others. The complete Radium Age 100 list (in progress) is here.
  • HILOBROW’s semiotic CODE-X series 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. This series took most of 3Q2015 off, but it will return in 4Q2015. Posts from 3Q2015 include: Performance Chic, For Your Sins, and Mommy Man.
  • HILOBROW’s 10-post REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD series is dedicated to New Wave-era (1964–1983) science fiction book covers depicting blown minds and deconstructed heads; and HILOBROW’s 10-post CIRCLE GAME series is dedicated to circles used as metaphors on vintage book and LP covers, and movie posters.

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Stay tuned!

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