HiLobrow 2Q2015
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July 1, 2015
Here are a few of HILOBROW’s highlights from April, May, and June 2015.
For a list of the 10 most visited posts of 2Q2015, click here.
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- We published two more installments in HiLobrow friend and contributor Tom Nealon’s popular secret-history-of-food series, STUFFED.
- 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 April, May, and June we published the following curated series.
- Since April 1, we’ve published over 20 new installments in the HILO HEROES series, bringing the series’ grand total — since we kicked it off back in 2009 — to some 1,370 items. We’re grateful to the following contributors for the following 2Q2015 HILO HEROES items.
- Over the course of 2Q2015, we added new installments to the following HiLobrow series.
- In April, May, and June, HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn assembled the following lists of his favorite adventure novels.
- HiLoBooks continued to publish public-domain adventures, here at HILOBROW. In 2Q2015 we serialized the following titles.
POTATO CHIPS AND DEMOCRACY: Is the former a reliable gauge of the latter?
PIE SHAPES: An architectural investigation. Note that this post is not only the most visited HiLobrow post of 2Q2015, but of 2015 overall (so far).
We’re excited to announce that Tom has landed a secret-history-of-food book contract! The downside, for us, is that he’ll need to take several months off from writing STUFFED. Hurry up, already, Tom.
STUFFED SERIES: THE MAGAZINE OF TASTE | AUGURIES AND PIGNOSTICATIONS | THE CATSUP WAR | CAVEAT CONDIMENTOR | CURRIE CONDIMENTO | POTATO CHIPS AND DEMOCRACY | PIE SHAPES | WHEY AND WHEY NOT | PINK LEMONADE | EUREKA! MICROWAVES | CULINARY ILLUSIONS | AD SALSA PER ASPERA | THE WAR ON MOLE | ALMONDS: NO JOY | GARNISHED | REVUE DES MENUS | REVUE DES MENUS (DEUX) | WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE | THE THICKENING | TRUMPED | CHILES EN MOVIMIENTO | THE GREAT EATER OF KENT | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH CHEF WATSON | KETCHUP & DIJON | TRY THE SCROD | MOCK VENISON | THE ROMANCE OF BUTCHERY | I CAN HAZ YOUR TACOS | STUFFED TURKEY | BREAKING GINGERBREAD | WHO ATE WHO? | LAYING IT ON THICK | MAYO MIXTURES | MUSICAL TASTE | ELECTRIFIED BREADCRUMBS | DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION | THE ISLAND OF LOST CONDIMENTS | FLASH THE HASH | BRUNSWICK STEW: B.S. | FLASH THE HASH, pt. 2 | THE ARK OF THE CONDIMENT | SQUEEZED OUT | SOUP v. SANDWICH | UNNATURAL SELECTION | HI YO, COLLOIDAL SILVER | PROTEIN IN MOTION | GOOD RIDDANCE TO RESTAURANTS.
MUSEUM OF FEMORIBILIA: Lynn Peril exhumes and interrogates forgotten curiosities and outmoded technologies of womanhood.
FALSE MACHINE: British blogger Patrick Stuart analyzes sci-fi and fantasy models and minis in terms of how they utilize mass and space. We’ll finish publishing this series in 3Q2015.
POP WITH A SHOTGUN: Devin McKinney records his reactions to music and music-related stimuli. We’ll finish publishing this series in 3Q2015.
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
Brian Berger on Stanley Turrentine, Carmen McRae, Miklos Rozsa, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Julian Beck, George Russell, Nat Hiken. Tucker Cummings on Andy Serkis. Erik Davis on Gerald Gardner. Joshua Glenn on Daniel Clowes, J.P. Donleavy.
Mark Kingwell on Gyorgy Lukacs, Charlie Chaplin. Adam McGovern on Billie Holiday, Malcolm X. Devin McKinney on Nella Larsen, Ethel Lina White, Arthur Alexander, Vilmos Zsigmond, Paul Thomas Anderson. Anthony Miller on Moebius, Aby Warburg. Lynn Peril on Anita Loos.
The most visited HiLo Hero posts of 2Q2015, so far: Gerald Gardner, Moebius, Billie Holiday, and Daniel Clowes.
Josh Glenn is editor of the HILO HEROES series.
LIMERICKANIA: Limericks by Douglas Wolk, inspired by comic book details from the 4CP archive.
RADIUM AGE 100: Josh Glenn aims to identify the best science fiction from 1904–33.
CODE-X: Josh Glenn 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.
RADIUM AGE: CONTEXT: Ephemera that illuminates the social and cultural context within which Radium Age (1904–33) science fiction was produced and received. We wrapped up this long-running series in June.
In April, we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the 10 Best Adventures of 1945, from George Orwell’s dystopian talking-animal adventure Animal Farm to Tove Jansson’s fantasy adventure The Moomins and the Great Flood.
In May, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the 10 Best Adventures of 1955, from Graham Greene’s espionage adventure The Quiet American to J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy adventure The Return of the King.
In June, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the 10 Best Adventures of 1975, from J.G. Ballard’s atavistic adventure High-Rise to Samuel R. Delany’s science fiction adventure Dhalgren.
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.
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.
Our serialization of Helen MacInnes’s 1944 espionage adventure The Unconquerable concluded in April.
Our serialization of John Russell’s 1956 hunted-man adventure story The Fourth Man concluded in April.
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.”
On to 3Q2015! Click here for a sneak peek.
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