Joshenilia (9)
By:
February 8, 2016
One in a series of posts exhuming the juvenilia and significant objects of HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn.
When, in the 9th or 10th grade, John Dooley Cradock and I started writing and self-publishing avant-garde, absurdist poetry and fiction — under the imprimatur of Paradise Publications — we were also playing a lot of Dungeons & Dragons. Leafing through our publications now, I see that we not infrequently incorporated D&D ephemera (diagrams of booby traps, annotated sketches of player and non-player characters) willy-nilly into our booklets.
Good for us! In presenting ourselves to the world as writers and poets, as aesthetes with sophisticated opinions and tastes, we didn’t seek to occlude our nerdy pastime. Why should we have?
READ MORE essays by Joshua Glenn, originally published in: THE BAFFLER | BOSTON GLOBE IDEAS | BRAINIAC | CABINET | FEED | HERMENAUT | HILOBROW | HILOBROW: GENERATIONS | HILOBROW: RADIUM AGE SCIENCE FICTION | HILOBROW: SHOCKING BLOCKING | THE IDLER | IO9 | N+1 | NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | SEMIONAUT | SLATE