HILOBROW 2018

By: HILOBROW
January 3, 2019

Here’s what HILOBROW published during 2018. Many thanks to our first-time contributors, as well as to our loyal, generous regular contributors and long-time friends!

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ENTHUSIASMS

This year’s weekly ENTHUSIASM series, here at HILOBROW, was: WOWEE ZOWEE. We asked 52 of HILOBROW’s friends and contributors to wax enthusiastic about their favorite albums from the Nineties (1994–2003). Here’s the 2018 lineup:

Josh Glenn is the editor of WOWEE ZOWEE; he is very grateful to the series’ contributors.

During August, HILOBROW published 25 (+2) installments in TUBE YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series analyzing and celebrating some of our favorite TV shows from the Fifties (1954–1963). Here’s the lineup:

Josh Glenn is editor of the TUBE YOUR ENTHUSIASM series. He is very grateful to the series’ contributors — many of whom donated their fees to the ACLU.

PROJECT OBJECT

Rob Walker and Josh Glenn are the editors of HILOBROW’s ongoing PROJECT:OBJECT. During 2018, they published two new volumes: FLAIR and FOSSILS. Rob and Josh are very grateful to 2018’s PROJECT:OBJECT contributors, many of whom contributed their fees to the ACLU.

FLAIR features 100% true tales about significant accoutrements and appurtenances. Here’s the FLAIR lineup:

FOSSILS features 100% true tales about significant objects that evoke a vanished era. Here’s the FOSSILS lineup:

SPECIAL SERIES

Adam McGovern published eight PANEL ZERO Q&As with comics creators — using comics as the nexus point for ripples or vectors through the culture. Here’s the PANEL ZERO lineup:

We also published Adam McGovern’s TEXTSHOW, a four-installment series of round-table discussions of movies, TV, comics, and more. Here’s the TEXTSHOW lineup:

WORLDS UNSPOKEN (Christopher-Rashee Stevenson, Diana Leto, and Joe Corallo) | THE LOST INNOCENCE PROJECT (Juan Recondo and Mark Russell) | WALKING IT BACK (Maria Hoey, Holly Interlandi, Aldo Perez) | EMPOWER FANTASY (John Jennings, Stacey Robinson, Emily Asher-Perrin)

During 2018 we wrapped up the new series of 24 HERMENAUTIC TAROT cards, with four final installments: Mike Watt on THE FLOCK | Molly Wright Steenson on PILE-ON PYLON | Melissa Gira Grant on THE FRONT DESK | Madeline Ashby on THE DEVILS.

John Hilgart and Josh Glenn co-edited the HERMENAUTIC TAROT series. They are very grateful to the HERMENAUTIC TAROT’s 78 contributors.

MONTHLY SERIES

Lynn Peril’s series PLANET OF PERIL is devoted (mostly) to historical examples of what she has named “pink think”: ideas and attitudes about what constitutes proper female behavior. Here’s 2018’s PLANET OF PERIL lineup:

James Parker continued to bastardize THE KALEVALA, a Finnish sequence of folkloric songs, runes, and charms. Here’s the 2018 lineup:

INTRODUCTION: Laughter in the Womb of Time, or Why I Love the Kalevala | RUNE 1: “The Birth of Vainamoinen” | RUNE 2 (departure): “Vainamoinen in November” | RUNE 5 (departure): “Smüt the Dog Praises His Seal Queen” | RUNE 17 (1–98): “The Dreaming Giant” | RUNE 45 (259–312, departure): “The Wizard’s Secret”.

Tom Nealon’s apophenic food-history series STUFFED returned, after a year’s hiatus. Here’s 2018’s STUFFED lineup:

I CAN HAZ YOUR TACOS | STUFFED TURKEY | BREAKING GINGERBREAD

LIT LISTS

We finished up NEW WAVE SCI-FI 75, a series aiming to identify Josh Glenn’s 75 favorite science-fiction novels published during the Sixties (1964–1973) and Seventies (1974–1983). The 2018 NEW WAVE SCI-FI 75 lineup includes:

The complete NEW WAVE SCI-FI 75 list (a work in progress) is here.

As part of the ongoing BEST ADVENTURES series, during 2018 Josh recommended over 150 favorite 20th-century adventures:

BEST 1908 ADVENTURES, from G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday to Edith Nesbit’s The House of Arden
BEST 1913 ADVENTURES, from Earl Derr Biggers’s Seven Keys to Baldpate to Marie Belloc Lowndes’s The Lodger
BEST 1918 ADVENTURES, from Owen Gregory’s Meccania: The Super-State to Sax Rohmer’s Brood of the Witch Queen
BEST 1923 ADVENTURES, from E.V. Odle’s The Clockwork Man to Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk
BEST 1928 ADVENTURES, from Ashenden and The Skylark of Space to The Trumpeter of Krakow
BEST 1933 ADVENTURES, from Lost Horizon and The Thin Man to The Werewolf of Paris
BEST 1938 ADVENTURES, from The Sword in the Stone and Brighton Rock to Rebecca
BEST 1943 ADVENTURES, from Laura and Double Indemnity to Red Rackham’s Treasure.
BEST 1948 ADVENTURES, from The Franchise Affair to Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
BEST 1953 ADVENTURES, from Savage Night to The Long Goodbye
BEST 1958 ADVENTURES, from Our Man in Havana to Have Space Suit — Will Travel
BEST 1963 ADVENTURES, from A Wrinkle in Time to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
BEST YA & YYA LIT 1968, from Robert C. O’Brien’s The Silver Crown to Ted Hughes’s The Iron Man
BEST 1969 ADVENTURES, from Ishmael Reed’s Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down to Philip K. Dick’s Ubik.
BEST 1973 ADVENTURES, from Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising to George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman at the Charge.
BEST 1978 ADVENTURES, from Ross Thomas’s Chinaman’s Chance to Paula Gosling’s A Running Duck.
BEST 1983 ADVENTURES, from John Sladek’s Roderick at Random to Diane Duane’s So You Want to Be a Wizard.

During 2018, Josh Glenn produced two new adventure lit lists (works in progress):

CURATED SERIES

HILOBROW curated the following series, from work previously published elsewhere:

RADIUM AGE INTRODUCTIONS: Matthew Battles vs. Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague | Matthew De Abaitua vs. Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail (and “As Easy as A.B.C.”) | Joshua Glenn vs. Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Poison Belt | James Parker vs. H. Rider Haggard’s When the World Shook | Tom Hodgkinson vs. Edward Shanks’s The People of the Ruins | Erik Davis vs. William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land | Astra Taylor vs. J.D. Beresford’s Goslings | Annalee Newitz vs. E.V. Odle’s The Clockwork Man | Gary Panter vs. Cicely Hamilton’s Theodore Savage | Mark Kingwell vs. Muriel Jaeger’s The Man with Six Senses | Bruce Sterling vs. Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail (Afterword) | Gordon Dahlquist vs. Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Poison Belt (Afterword)

Douglas Wolk’s ALL OF THE MARVELS tumblr documents what he’s been reading for his forthcoming book. He contributed three curated series to HILOBROW during 2018: MARVEL VS. MUSEUM, featuring Marvel Comics panels in which fine art makes an appearance | STERANKOISMS, featuring tributes by comics artists to Jim Steranko’s 1966–1970 Marvel Comics output | TAKING LIBERTIES, a Statue of Liberty-themed series.

The series 12 DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE (AGAIN) and ANOTHER 12 DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE reprinted stories originally written — by 12 HILOBROW contributors and friends — for Josh Glenn and Rob Walker’s 2009–2010 anthropological-literary experiment SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS.

OUTBOUND TO MONTEVIDEO excerpts a public Fellowship Journal maintained on tumblr by Mimi Lipson when she was exploring Montevideo, Uruguay — as an apexart International Fellow.

HILOBROW friend Tony Leone is not only an award-winning graphic designer, he’s an award-winning model tank builder, too. TANK UP is a series showcasing ten of his favorite builds.

Also, HiLoBooks serialized H. De Vere Stacpoole’s 1918 Avenger/Artful Dodger-type adventure novel The Man Who Lost Himself; and Jack London’s Radium Age sci-fi novel The Iron Heel (1908).

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