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

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).

AGAINST GROOVY

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.

ODD ABSURDUM

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.

SCIENCE FICTION BEST-OF LISTS

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

50 Best Scientific Romances (1864–1903), from Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth to Alfred Jarry’s The Supermale.
Golden Age Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 1934–1963, from E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Triplanetary to Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
75 Best New Wave Sci-Fi (1964–1983) Novels, from Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip to Greg Bear’s Blood Music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CURATED SERIES

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

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.

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.

LIT LISTS

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.

SERIALIZED FICTION

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

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.

MORE HILOBROW SERIES

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.

Stay tuned!

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