1Q2025 SNEAK PEEK
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December 28, 2024
Here’s a preview of HILOBROW’s publishing plans for January, February, and March 2025.
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During 1Q2025, HILOBROW will publish MacGYVER YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series of enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, analyzing and celebrating favorite TV shows from the Eighties (1984–1993). Here’s the lineup:
Michael Grasso on MAX HEADROOM | Heather Quinlan on MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 | Mark Kingwell on CHINA BEACH | Judith Zissman on SANTA BARBARA | Adelina Vaca on TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | Deborah Wassertzug on MOONLIGHTING | Josh Glenn on VOLTRON | Adam McGovern on A VERY BRITISH COUP | Alex Brook Lynn on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION | Nikhil Singh on CHOCKY | Sara Ryan on REMINGTON STEELE | Vanessa Berry on THE YOUNG ONES | Dan Reines on GET A LIFE | Susannah Breslin on PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE | Marc Weidenbaum on LIQUID TELEVISION | Elina Shatkin on PERFECT STRANGERS | Lynn Peril on THE SIMPSONS | David Smay on THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF MOLLY DODD | Annie Nocenti on THE SINGING DETECTIVE | Tom Nealon on MIAMI VICE | Anthony Miller on ST. ELSEWHERE | Gordon Dahlquist on BLACKADDER | Peggy Nelson on SEINFELD | Nicholas Rombes on TWIN PEAKS | Ramona Lyons on ÆON FLUX
Josh Glenn is the MacGYVER 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.
Adam McGovern (shown above) will continue to deliver over-the-transom, on-tangent essays, dialogues and subjective scholarship via his monthly-ish series OFF-TOPIC.
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 1Q2025 lineup:
Samuel R. Delany’s THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION | Roger Zelazny’s LORD OF LIGHT | Philip K. Dick’s UBIK
HILOBROW friend (and brother-in-law) Lawry Hutcheson will return with a fourth year’s worth of gorgeous linocut calendar art — via the series LINOCUT 2024.
As we do every year, on January 18th we will celebrate MICAWBER DAY.
Additional ongoing HILOBROW series: SCREENSHOTS | PHOTO DUMP | NOT TODAY, EBAY
HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn is editor of the RADIUM AGE series of reissued proto-sf adventures from the MIT Press. During 1Q2025, the following titles will be published:
- J.D. Beresford’s THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER (March 2025, with a new introduction by Ted Chiang). “Extravagance… but of so remarkable a character that it keeps you almost spell-bound. What follows is philosophy, psychology, poetry, allegory, what you will.” — The Bookman (1911) | See this title at the MIT Press website.
- John Taine’s THE GREATEST ADVENTURE (March 2025, with a new introduction by S.L. Huang). “A mixture of H. Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Roy Chapman Andrews, and a bottle of excellent gin.” — California Tech (1929) | See this title at the MIT Press website.
Exciting projects for Fall 2025 and beyond are also in the works…
Also, as we have done for over ten years now, we will continue to serialize some of Josh’s favorite Radium Age proto-sf stories and novels. Here’s the 1Q2025 lineup:
- Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford’s The Inheritors (1901)
- Naomi Mitchison’s “The Goat: Cardiff, A.D. 1935” (1929)
- Frank L. Pollock’s “The Skyscraper in B Flat” (1904)
HILOBROW also will publish further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a sampling of the 1Q2025 lineup:
Valery Bryusov’s THE VOICE OF OTHER WORLDS | Farfa’s TRIANGLE | Harriet Monroe’s A POWER-PLANT | Igor Severyanin’s STRANGE | Agnes Lee’s RADIUM | Robinson Jeffers’ SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC | Vasilisk Gnedov’s POEM OF THE END.
RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 1Q2025. FULL SERIES INFO.
The following will be cross-posted to HILOBROW from elsewhere, during 1Q2025.
12 DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE is an ongoing, seasonal series of stories originally written — by HILOBROW contributors and friends — for Josh Glenn and Rob Walker’s 2009–2010 anthropological-literary experiment SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS. Here are the series installments that will appear (as part of the tenth edition of this series) in January 2025:
Sari Wilson on PENGUIN CREAMER | Sloane Crosley on RAINBOW SAND ANIMAL | Teddy Blanks on PORCELAIN SCOOTER | Terese Svoboda on HEART-SHAPED CANDLE | Todd Levin on ZIGGY HEART.
On to 1Q2025…