HILOBROW 4Q2024
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December 29, 2024
Here’s what HILOBROW published during October, November, and December 2024. We’re grateful to our many stalwart contributors, and also to first-time contributors Kenny Simek and Colin Campbell.
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Also see: HYPOCRITE IDLER 4Q2024.
During 4Q2024, we published SCREAM YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series of 25 enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, on the topic of horror movies. Here’s the lineup:
INTRODUCTION by Heather Quinlan | Crockett Doob on THE SHINING | Dean Haspiel on TOURIST TRAP | Fran Pado on M3GAN | Erin M. Routson on THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT | Adam McGovern on THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER | Michele Carlo on THE EXORCIST | Tony Pacitti on JAWS | Josh Glenn on INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) | Kathy Biehl on HALLOWEEN | Annie Nocenti on ROSEMARY’S BABY | Carolyn Campbell on WAIT UNTIL DARK | Marc Weidenbaum on DAWN OF THE DEAD | Amy Keyishian on SHAUN OF THE DEAD | Gabriela Pedranti on [•REC] | Mariane Cara on PARANORMAL ACTIVITY | Trav SD on FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY | Colin Campbell on EVIL DEAD (2013) | Lynn Peril on NIGHT GALLERY | Heather Quinlan on THE CHANGELING | Kenny Simek on REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA | Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons on IT (1990) | James Scott Maloy on CONTAGION | Nick Rumaczyk on THE BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF | Max Alvarez on THE INNOCENTS | Michael Campochiaro on BLACK CHRISTMAS.
Heather Quinlan is the SCREAM YOUR ENTHUSIASM series editor. She 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.
During 4Q2024, Tom Nealon wrapped up his food-history series CONDIMENT ABECEDARIUM. Here are its final installments:
Z IS FOR ZHOUG / ZA’ATAR | GOOD-BYE TO ALL TZAT(ZIKI).
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 4Q2024 lineup:
SCAREWARE, 2024!: Prematurely opening the Halloween pop-candy to watch out for | THE WRITE-IN VOTE: Comicbook writers talk Election 2024! | V FOR TRANSCENDENT: Communing with RAM V about the Newest Gods.
Let’s pause to acknowledge the truly impressive effort that Adam’s WRITE-IN VOTE installment represents. He convened the extraordinary comics creators Mark Russell, Rodney Barnes, Annie Nocenti, Julio Anta, and Magdalene Visaggio… and led them in an insightful, funny, moving discussion of the 2024 presidential election. Wow!
Plus: A few short “detours,” including: STAGE FRIGHTS: The miracle of live (and embalmed) theatre! | SPINS MAD: Music from the past week! | THE GREAT… GASKELL?: Finishing some thoughts with TOM SCIOLI
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 4Q2024 lineup:
Iain M. Banks’s FEERSUM ENDJINN | Grant Morrison’s run on DOOM PATROL | Philip K. Dick’s THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH
FIRST TIME AS COMEDY, a series dedicated to surfacing examples of comedies remade as earnest dramas, wrapped up this month. Here’s the 4Q2024 lineup:
LITTLE BIG MAN vs. DANCES WITH WOLVES | THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO vs. BE KIND REWIND | LEN DEIGHTON vs. LEN DEIGHTON
During 4Q2024, we wrapped up SCHEMATIZING. Since January 2023, Josh’s series has sought to articulate — in a variety of humorous, yet serious ways — the intellectual and emotional highs and lows of developing a semiotic schema. We published the final SCHEMATIZING installment — an overview of what Josh learned from this process — earlier this month.
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 4Q2024, Josh and the MITP production team sent the series’ two Spring 2025 tiles to press:
- 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.
Also, Josh and the MITP production team moved the series’ two Fall 2025 titles into the production process:
- Marietta S. Shaginyan’s Yankees in Petrograd (August 2025, translated from Russian and introduced by Jill Roese). “A novel of our time, in which major events succeed each other with purely cinematographic speed….” — Nikolai Meshcheryakov, “Foreword to the First Edition” (1924) | See this title at the MIT Press website.
- Before Superman: Superhumans of the Radium Age (August 2025, edited and introduced by Josh). An anthology of proto-sf stories and novel excerpts exploring the uncanny (and then brand-new) concept of the “superhuman.” | See this title at the MIT Press website.
Here at HILOBROW, meanwhile, we wrapped up Josh’s series RADIUM AGE ART, which is dedicated to proto-sf-adjacent artworks from c. 1900–1935.
Here’s the RADIUM AGE ART 4Q2024 lineup:
1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935.
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 4Q2024 lineup:
- Charlotte Haldane’s Man’s World (1926)
- E. and H. Heron’s “The Story of the Grey House” (1899)
- Raymond Roussel’s “The Demoiselle” (from Locus Solus, 1914); in Josh’s translation
- Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford’s The Inheritors (1901)
HILOBROW also published further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a sampling of the 4Q2024 lineup:
Alexander Blok’s “INTO CRIMSON DARK” | J. Lewis Milligan’s THE SUPER-MAN | John Davidson’s “MATTER INCANDESCENT” | Archibald MacLeish’s SIGNATURE FOR TEMPO | Anna Akhmatova’s “ALL IS SOLD, ALL IS LOST” | Robinson Jeffers’ NOVA.
RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 1Q2025. FULL SERIES INFO.
On to 1Q2025…