Joshenilia (13)

By: Joshua Glenn
March 28, 2016

One in a series of posts exhuming the juvenilia and significant objects of HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn.

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High school back-of-notebook doodle, c. 1985. A heady mixture of pretentiousness (a quote from Racine’s Phaedra, a meaningless made-up Latin phrase) and self-mockery. Plus: Self-portrait as a New Waver, with skinny tie, earring, and untucked shirt.

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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

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Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Boston.