1Q2016 Sneak Peek
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December 29, 2015
Here’s a sneak peek at some of the items we’ll be publishing at HILOBROW in January, February, and March 2016!
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HiLobrow friend and regular contributor Adam McGovern (pictured above) will continue to make a Monday-morning incursion into high- and lowbrow culture — writing about new theater, music, comic books, TV, and more.
MORE POSTS by ADAM McGOVERN: OFF-TOPIC (2019–2024 monthly) | textshow (2018 quarterly) | PANEL ZERO (comics-related Q&As, 2018 monthly) | THIS: (2016–2017 weekly) | PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HELL, a 5-part series about characters in McGovern’s and Paolo Leandri’s comic Nightworld | Two IDORU JONES comics by McGovern and Paolo Leandri | BOWIEOLOGY: Celebrating 50 years of Bowie | ODD ABSURDUM: How Felix invented the 21st century self | CROM YOUR ENTHUSIASM: C.L. Moore’s JIREL OF JOIRY stories | KERN YOUR ENTHUSIASM: Data 70 | HERC YOUR ENTHUSIASM: “Freedom” | KIRK YOUR ENTHUSIASM: Captain Camelot | KIRB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: Full Fathom Five | A 5-part series on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World mythos | Reviews of Annie Nocenti’s comics Katana, Catwoman, Klarion, and Green Arrow | The curated series FANCHILD | To see all of Adam’s posts, including HiLo Hero items on Lilli Carré, Judy Garland, Wally Wood, and others: CLICK HERE
In October, we kicked off the HERMENAUTIC TAROT series, a comic-book rorschach creative writing experiment in symbol-making and oracular speechifying. Each contributor was randomly assigned a card from a tarot deck that was created (by Tom Hart, of the Sequential Artists Workshop) using images from our friend John Hilgart’s 4CP archive.
Over the course of 1Q2016 we’ll finish up this amazing series, with posts from Luc Sante on THE OLD DARK HOUSE | Erik Davis on FORBIDDEN FRUIT | Devin McKinney on THE ATOMS | Dan Fox on THE OBFUSCATOR | Patrick Cates on [TBD] | Chris Spurgeon on OVERWHELMING TEMPTATION | Jenny Davidson on THE ALL-SEEING EYE | Lauren Oliver on [TBD] | Brian Berger on THE WHITE VISITATION | Tim Spencer on DISILLUSIONMENT | Chelsey Johnson on THE BEARD OF SHADOWS | Alix Lambert on THE EYE FLOATER | Ed Park on THE TWINS | James Parker on THE NO-NO-NOBOT | Amy Thielen on VELOCITY.
Josh Glenn will continue to add installments to the RADIUM AGE 100 series, via which he is slowly but steadily working to identify the 100 science fiction novels published during the genre’s Radium Age (1904–33) that are (in his opinion) most worth reading.
1Q2016 installments will include: G.K. Chesterton’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912), Sax Rohmer’s espionage/science fiction adventure The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913), Homer Eon Flint’s The Devolutionist (1921), George Allan England’s The Vacant World (1912), George Bernard Shaw’s Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch (1921), Edwin Balmer and Philip Gordon Wylie’s When Worlds Collide (1932), Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique (1932-on), Edgar Rice Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars (1912), Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague (1912), and Karel Čapek’s Krakatit (1922).
Josh Glenn will continue to add installments to the BEST ADVENTURES series of posts via which he aims to identify his 10 favorite adventure novels published each year from 1904–1983. Over the course of 1Q2016, we’ll see posts on: Best YYA Lit of 1966, 10 Best Adventures of 1916, 10 Best Adventures of 1941, 10 Best Adventures of 1921, and 10 Best Adventures of 1926.
New installments in Douglas Wolk’s Limerickania series. New installments in Josh Glenn’s Code-X and Joshenilia series. Tom Nealon’s STUFFED food history/conspiracy series will return. We’ll finish up our serialization of James Branch Cabell’s 1919 comical fantasy adventure Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice. We’ll celebrate Micawber Day, like we do every year. And we’ll publish three final HiLo Heroes posts (Stanley Booth, Alison Steele, Edward Abbey), not to mention Josh’s final Rondel for HiLo Heroes.
As of the first week of January, in 1Q2016 we’re also planning to publish: a series of Kalevala translations and a series of poems about the Bourne movies, by James Parker; a monthly column by Lynn Peril; and we’ll republish Joanne McNeil’s weekly ALL MY STARS newsletter, in which she recommends books, films, exhibitions, and more.
And that’s just what we know we’re going to publish, in 1Q2016.
Stay tuned!
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