3Q2015 Sneak Peek
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June 28, 2015
Here’s a preview of HILOBROW’s publishing plans for July, August, and September 2015.
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- In August, we’ll publish 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 — will be 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, HiLobrow friend and contributor 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).
- Over the course of 3Q2015, we will add a couple dozen or so new installments to our HILO HEROES series, including the following:
- From time to time, HiLobrow curates a series of essays, for example — or reviews, images, Q&As, blog posts, etc. — originally published elsewhere by one of our friends and/or contributors. In July, August, and September we’ll publish the following curated series.
- The following lit lists assembled by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn will appear in 3Q2015.
- HiLoBooks will continue to publish public-domain adventures, here at HILOBROW, in serialized fashion. Currently, we’re serializing — and planning to serialize — the following titles.
- July, August, and September will see the publication of new installments in various ongoing HiLobrow series, and we’ll launch one or two new series as well.
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. Mark Kingwell on Henry David Thoreau, Berenice Abbott, Herbert Marcuse, Hank Williams, and Paulo Freire. Anthony Miller on James Tiptree Jr.
Devin McKinney on Guy Endore, Ian Curtis, M.R. James, Charles Fort, Cisco Houston, Christopher Isherwood, and Ann Bannon. Jacob Mikanowski on Witold Gombrowicz and E.J. Bellocq. Tom Nealon on Terminator X. William Nericcio on Carmen Mondragon and Gus Arriola. Lynn Peril on Marc Bolan. Marilyn Snell on Hans Scharoun.
Josh Glenn is editor of the HILO HEROES series.
In August, we’ll kick off SCREEN TIME, a series of posts about film and television by HiLobrow friend and contibutor Jacob Mikanowski that we’ve curated from various sources.
We’ll publish 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.
We’ll publish 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
A 110th-anniversary list of the 10 Best Adventures of 1905 — from Baroness Orczy’s historical (18th c.) adventure The Scarlet Pimpernel to Edwin Lester Arnold’s Radium Age science fiction adventure Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation.
A 105th-anniversary list of the 10 Best Adventures of 1910 — from Louise Gerard’s crime adventure The Golden Centipede to L. Frank Baum’s Oz fantasy adventure The Emerald City of Oz.
A 95th-anniversary list of the 10 Best Adventures of 1920 — from Karel Čapek’s Radium Age science fiction play R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots to E. Phillips Oppenheim’s espionage adventure The Great Impersonation.
An 85th-anniversary list of the 10 Best Adventures of 1930 — from Dashiell Hammett’s hardboiled crime/treasure-hunt adventure The Maltese Falcon to Arthur Ransome’s YA adventure novel 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.
From July through September, we’ll serialize E.M. Forster’s 1909 sci-fi novella The Machine Stops. Published between the author’s much more famous works A Room With A View and Howards End, science fiction scholars remind us that The Machine Stops predicted the Internet and instant messaging… as well as a WALL-E-type dystopia.
Beginning in September, we’ll serialize Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1928 sci-fi novella When the World Screamed. The fifth and final Professor Challenger adventure, it takes us eight miles beneath the planet’s epidermis, where Challenger tests his hypothesis that the world is itself a living organism!
Our serialization of Hammond Innes’s 1951 espionage/Robinsonade adventure Air Bridge will conclude in July.
Our serialization of James Branch Cabell’s 1919 comical fantasy adventure Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice will continue until next March.
Our serialization of John Buchan’s 1899 sci-fi novella No Man’s Land will continue through early September.
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”.
We’ll continue to publish new installments in the following series: Josh Glenn’s 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; Josh Glenn’s RADIUM AGE 100 series, which aims to identify the best science fiction from 1904–33; and LIMERICKANIA, a series in which Douglas Wolk writes limericks inspired by comic-book details from the 4CP archive.
We’ll kick off CIRCLE GAME, a new gallery series. It’s dedicated to vintage paperbacks and LPs whose cover illustrations use circles metaphorically.
Stay tuned!
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