2Q2025 SNEAK PEEK
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March 23, 2025
Here’s what HILOBROW will publish in April, May, and June 2025.
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During 2Q2025, HILOBROW will publish DEFER YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series of enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, on our favorite… late-breaking obsessions, avoided discoveries, and devotions delayed! Here’s the lineup:
Mandy Keifetz on FAITH | Heather Quinlan on THE GRATEFUL DEAD | Carlo Rotella on SMOOTHER GROOVES | Art Wallace on MICHIGAN | Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons on TAYLOR SWIFT | Josh Glenn on ART | James Scott Maloy on BE-BOP DELUXE | Jake Zucker on LIGHT SLEEPER | Gabriela Pedranti on THE BIG BANG THEORY | Adam McGovern on DOGS | Tana Sirois on COLLABORATIVE EVOLUTION | Rani Som on LED ZEP | Holly Interlandi on HOT SAUCE | Jeff Lewonczyk on TWIN PEAKS | Nikhil Singh on PRE-TEEN DAVID LYNCH PROBLEMS | Christopher Rashee Stevenson on O’NEILL & THE SEA | Fran Pado on SHARKS | Juan Recondo on BEN GRIMM’S INNER LIFE | Miranda Mellis on KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD | Mimi Lipson on SOBRIETY | William Nericcio on ELYSIUM | Crockett Doob on SLEATER-KINNEY | Marlon Stern Lopez on PAT THE BUNNY | …and more!
Adam McGovern is the DEFER series editor. He is very grateful to the series’ contributors, many of whom donated their honoraria to Annunciation House, which provides sanctuary and support to new arrivals to America at the Texas border.
In 2010–11, HILOBROW serialized Cocky the Fox, a swearing-animal novel by our friend James Parker (with illustrations by Kristin Parker). During 1Q2025, James began re-telling the Cocky saga… in the form of an opera, here at HILOBROW!
During 2Q2025, we’ll publish three further installments of COCKY: THE OPERA.
Adam McGovern (shown here) 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 2Q2025 lineup:
Thomas Pynchon’s GRAVITY’S RAINBOW | Ken MacLeod’s COSMONAUT KEEP | Yoon Ha Lee’s NINEFOX GAMBIT
The 10-part series LOGOLOGY will feature selected excerpts from Josh Glenn’s 2024 contribution — a top-of-mind, semiotics-adjacent analysis of fast food and cannabis brand logos and pack design — to issue no. 1 of the marketing-culture zine Cash & Carry.
During 2023, we published three dozen installments in the series HERMENAUTICA, which featured pages from Hermenaut, a DIY intellectual zine/journal published by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn from 1992 through 2000-01. In 2Q2025, the series will make a brief comeback…
The series NOT TODAY, EBAY will continue to share recent examples of stuff that Josh was tempted to purchase from eBay… but, heroically, didn’t.
Josh’s other HILOBROW series include: SCREENSHOTS | PHOTO DUMP
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 2Q2025 lineup:
- Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford’s The Inheritors (1901), cont.
- Frank L. Pollock’s “The Skyscraper in B Flat” (1904), cont.
- Christopher Blayre’s “Aalila” (1921)
- George S. Schuyler’s Black No More (excerpt, 1931)
- Algernon Blackwood’s “Playing Catch” (1924)
HILOBROW will publish further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a sampling of the 2Q2025 lineup:
Paul Valéry’s THE YOUNG FATE | Álvaro de Campos’s TIME’S PASSAGE | Vladimir Mayakovsky’s OUR MARCH | Enrico Cavacchioli’s THE MISSILE | Kenneth Rexroth’s “FROM ANY EVENT INTERVALS…” | Amy Lowell’s “IF A SAND-STORM WOULD COME…” | Archibald MacLeish’s THE END OF THE WORLD | Wallace Stevens’ A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO | Stanley G. Weinbaum’s TWO SUNSETS | Olaf Stapledon’s “IS MAN A DISEASE…”.
RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 1Q2025. FULL SERIES INFO.
On to 2Q2025…