HILOBROW 3Q2024
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September 29, 2024
Here’s what HILOBROW published during July, August, and September 2024. We’re grateful to our many stalwart contributors, and also to first-time contributors Adelina Vaca and — thanks to the COLOR CODEX series, cross-posted from SEMIOVOX — Audrey Bartis, Maciej Biedziński, Natasha Delliston, Whitney Dunlap-Fowler, Rachel Lawes, William Liu, Chirag Mediratta, Clio Meurer, and Alfredo Troncoso.
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During 3Q2024, we published VURT YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series of 25 enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, on the topic of science fiction novels and comics from the Eighties (1984–1993). Here’s the lineup:
Mark Kingwell on SNOW CRASH | Mandy Keifetz on THE GENOCIDAL HEALER | Matthew De Abaitua on SWAMP THING | Carlo Rotella on THE PLAYER OF GAMES | Lynn Peril on GEEK LOVE | Stephanie Burt on THE CARPATHIANS | Josh Glenn on DAL TOKYO | Deb Chachra on THE HYPERION CANTOS | Adam McGovern on KID ETERNITY | Nikhil Singh on THE RIDDLING REAVER | Judith Zissman on RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE | Ramona Lyons on PARABLE OF THE SOWER | Jessamyn West on the MARS TRILOGY | Flourish Klink on DOOMSDAY BOOK | Matthew Battles on THE INTEGRAL TREES | Tom Nealon on CLAY’S ARK | Sara Ryan on SARAH CANARY | Gordon Dahlquist on CONSIDER PHLEBAS | Alex Brook Lynn on VURT | Miranda Mellis on STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND | Nicholas Rombes on RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH | Adelina Vaca on NEUROMANCER | Marc Weidenbaum on AMERICAN FLAGG! | Peggy Nelson on VIRTUAL LIGHT | Michael Grasso on WILD PALMS.
Josh Glenn is the VURT YOUR ENTHUSIASM series editor. He is very grateful to the series’ contributors, many of whom donated their honoraria to Covenant House, which provides housing and supportive services to youth facing homelessness.
Tom Nealon continued to contribute new installments to CONDIMENT ABECEDARIUM, an apophenic food-history series. Here’s the 3Q2024 lineup:
XO SAUCE / XNIPEK | YOGHURT / YEMA.
Adam McGovern continued to deliver over-the-transom, on-tangent essays, dialogues and subjective scholarship via his monthly-ish series OFF-TOPIC. Here’s the 3Q2024 lineup:
CON-VERSATION PIECE: The several life stories of CON CHRISOULIS.
Josh Glenn’s SEMIOPUNK is an irregular series dedicated to surfacing examples (and predecessors) of the sf subgenre that HILOBROW was the first to name “semiopunk.” Here’s the 3Q2024 lineup:
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ | SNOW CRASH | VURT.
FIRST TIME AS COMEDY is a series dedicated to surfacing examples of comedies remade as earnest dramas. Here’s the 3Q2024 lineup:
JOHNNY BRAVO vs. ROCK STAR | THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS vs. THE MATRIX | CAVEMAN vs. SASQUATCH SUNSET.
Additional ongoing HILOBROW series: SCHEMATIZING | SCREENSHOTS | PHOTO DUMP | NOT TODAY, EBAY
The series COLOR CODEX — cross-posted from SEMIOVOX, HILOBROW’s sister website — investigates what specific colors signify — via specific material contexts — to 25 semiotics practitioners from around the world. Here’s the lineup:
Martha Arango (Sweden) on FALUKORV RED | Audrey Bartis (France) on KYOTO MOSS | Maciej Biedziński (Poland) on SKIN-DEEP ORANGE | Natasha Delliston (England) on MARRAKECH MINT | Whitney Dunlap-Fowler (USA) on RESURRECTION CANARY BLUE | Josh Glenn (USA) on TOLKIEN GREEN | Aiyana Gunjan (India) on LETTERBOX RED | Sarah Johnson (Canada) on ARMY GREEN | Lucia Laurent-Neva (England) on TEAL BLUE VOYAGER | Rachel Lawes (England) on DEVIL GREEN | Charles Leech (Canada) on STORMTROOPER WHITE | William Liu (China) on PINING GREEN | Ramona Lyons (USA) on GOTH PURPLE | Sónia Marques (Portugal) on RUNAWAY BURRO | Max Matus (Mexico) on CALIFORNIAN BLUE | Chirag Mediratta (Canada / India) on AUROVILLE ORANGE | Clio Meurer (France) on PARIS LUMINOUS GREY | Serdar Paktin (Turkey / England) on AMBIENT AMBER | Maria Papanthymou (Russia / Greece) on AGALMATOLITE WHITE | Vijay Parthasarathy (USA) on ALPHONSO YELLOW | Greg Rowland (England) on LAUNDROMAT FUTURA | Tim Spencer (England) on ELECTRO-EROTIC COBALT | Ximena Tobi (Argentina) on VILLA MISERIA BRICK | Alfredo Troncoso (Mexico) on BORGES GLAUQUE | Adelina Vaca (Mexico) on MEXICAN PINK.
As editor of the COLOR CODEX series, Josh is grateful to its contributors — the majority of whom, amazingly enough, he was able to thank in person at Semiofest Porto this past May!
On what would have been the literary canon-maker Harold Bloom’s 94th birthday (July 11), HILOBROW friend Anthony Miller contributed the post THE LOST CHELSEA HOUSE BOOKS — a list of books that Bloom admired but didn’t get around to including in one of his Chelsea House series of critical-essay anthologies.
HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn is editor of the RADIUM AGE series of reissued proto-sf adventures from the MIT Press.
During 3Q2024, the following new RADIUM AGE series titles were published:
- Edward Shanks’ THE PEOPLE OF THE RUINS (August 6, introduced by Paul March-Russell). “A penetrating tale of near-future disillusion that gazes upon a future made by World War I. Shanks, in 1920, is us, now.” — John Clute. Cover illustration by Seth. See this title at the MIT Press website.
- Francis Stevens’ THE HEADS OF CERBERUS AND OTHER STORIES (September 17, edited and introduced by Lisa Yaszek). “The stories in this collection are richly evocative of their time’s vision for our possible future, and their influence on the genre continues to broadly underpin the language by which contemporary works now explore today’s futures.” — Suzanne Palmer. Cover illustration by Seth. See this title at the MIT Press website.
Here at HILOBROW, meanwhile, we continued publishing the series RADIUM AGE ART. Here’s the 3Q2024 lineup:
1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926.
Also, as we have done for over ten years now, we continued to serialize some of Josh’s favorite Radium Age proto-sf stories and novels. Here’s the 3Q2024 lineup:
- Irene Clyde’s Beatrice the Sixteenth (1909)
- Van Tassel Sutphen’s The Doomsman (1905–1906)
- Charlotte Haldane’s Man’s World (1926)
- E. and H. Heron’s “The Story of the Grey House” (1898)
HILOBROW also published further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a sampling of the 3Q2024 lineup:
Wallace Stevens’ “RATIONALISTS, WEARING SQUARE HATS” | Herbert Read’s EQUATION | William Empson’s INVITATION TO JUNO | Kathleen Millay’s RELATIVITY | Aleksei Kruchenykh’s DYR BUL SHCYL | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s TO MY PEGASUS | Michael Roberts’ SIRIUS B | Osbert Sitwell’s THE END.
RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 1Q2024 | 2Q2024 | 3Q2024 | 4Q2024 | 2024. FULL SERIES INFO.
On to 4Q2024…