HILOBROW 4Q2023
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December 27, 2023
Here’s what HILOBROW published during October, November, and December 2023.
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Also see: HYPOCRITE IDLER 4Q2023.
During 4Q2023, we published STOOGE YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series of 25 enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, on the topic of proto-punk records from the Sixties (1964–1973). Here’s the lineup:
INTRODUCTION by Josh Glenn | Mandy Keifetz on The Trashmen’s SURFIN’ BIRD | Nicholas Rombes on Yoko Ono’s MOVE ON FAST | David Cantwell on ? and the Mysterians’ 96 TEARS | James Parker on The Modern Lovers’ SHE CRACKED | Lynn Peril on The Pleasure Seekers’ WHAT A WAY TO DIE | Lucy Sante on The Count Five’s PSYCHOTIC REACTION | Jonathan Lethem on The Monkees’ YOUR AUNTIE GRIZELDA | Adam McGovern on ELP’s BRAIN SALAD SURGERY | Mimi Lipson on The Shaggs’ MY PAL FOOT FOOT | Eric Weisbard on Frances Faye’s FRANCES AND HER FRIENDS | Annie Zaleski on Suzi Quatro’s CAN THE CAN | Carl Wilson on The Ugly Ducklings’ NOTHIN’ | Josh Glenn on Gillian Hill’s TUT, TUT, TUT, TUT… | Mike Watt on The Stooges’ SHAKE APPEAL | Peter Doyle on The Underdogs’ SITTING IN THE RAIN | Stephanie Burt on Pauline Oliveros’s III | Marc Weidenbaum on Ornette Coleman’s WE NOW INTERRUPT FOR A COMMERCIAL | Anthony Miller on Eno’s NEEDLES IN THE CAMEL’S EYE | Gordon Dahlquist on The Sonics’ STRYCHNINE | David Smay on The New York Dolls’ HUMAN BEING | Michael Grasso on the 13th Floor Elevators’ YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME | Holly Interlandi on Death’s ROCK’N’ROLL VICTIM | Elina Shatkin on Bobby Fuller’s I FOUGHT THE LAW | Brian Berger on The Mothers of Invention’s WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE? | Peggy Nelson on The Kingsmen’s LOUIE LOUIE.
Josh Glenn is the STOOGE 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.
PS: Thanks to DISQUIET and NO FENCES REVIEW for the STOOGE series shout-outs. NO FENCES: “No matter your interests, Josh has probably devoted a series to it and lined up some great writers to boot — Lucy Sante, Carl Wilson, and Douglas Wolk are just a few of his stable of regular contributors.”
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 4Q2023 lineup:
TRAILER TRASHTALK returns, with: What to expect from ECHO | NO LAST STAN: Revisitations of STAN LEE with graphic biographer TOM SCIOLI | AULD LANXIETY: New Year’s 2024: The future must be walked backwards.
Tom Nealon continued to contribute new installments to CONDIMENT ABECEDARIUM, an apophenic food-history series. Here’s the 4Q2023 lineup:
PIKLIZ / PYLSUSINNEP SAUCE | QIZHA / QUESO | RED-EYE GRAVY / RANCH DRESSING | SAMBAL / SAUERKRAUT.
South African artist, writer and musician Nikhil Singh contributed an illustrated series — ARCADE KID — that revisits his formative years in the ’90s.
Via the series HERMENAUTICA, HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn continued to present pages scanned from back issues of Hermenaut, the DIY intellectual zine/journal that he edited and published from 1992–2001.
As of November, we have wrapped up this series — for now, at least.
Josh’s other ongoing series include: SCHEMATIZING, SCREENSHOTS, PHOTO DUMP.
HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn is editor of the RADIUM AGE series of reissued proto-sf adventures from the MIT Press. Here at HILOBROW, during 4Q2023 we continued to serialize some of Josh’s favorite Radium Age proto-sf. Here’s the lineup:
- J. Schlossel’s “Invaders from Outside” (1925; serialization cont. from 3Q2023)
- John Buchan’s “Space” (1911)
- Perley Poore Sheehan and Robt. H. Davis’s “Blood and Iron” (1917)
- J.D. Beresford’s “A Negligible Experiment” (1921)
HILOBROW also published further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a sampling of the 4Q2023 lineup:
Valery Bryusov’s DUSK | John Lehmann’s THIS EXCELLENT MACHINE | Jean Toomer’s HER LIPS ARE COPPER WIRE | D.H. Lawrence’s RELATIVITY | Clark Ashton Smith’s AFTERWARDS | Rudyard Kipling’s MACDONOUGH’S SONG | Archibald MacLeish’s EPISTLE TO BE LEFT TO THE EARTH | and others.
To see the full lineup from this series, organized thematically into such categories as CATASTROPHE and FAR-OUT MATHEMATICS, visit this page.
RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 1Q2023 | 2Q2023 | 3Q2023 | 4Q2023. FULL SERIES INFO.
The series HADRON AGE 75 — about the 75 best sf adventures published during the genre’s Hadron Age era (from 2004–2023, according to HILOBROW’s periodization schema) — during 4Q2023 returned from its brief hiatus. Here’s the lineup:
R.F. Kuang’s BABEL | Charlie Jane Anders’s VICTORIES GREATER THAN DEATH | Ann Leckie’s TRANSLATION STATE | Ray Nayler’s THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA | Aliette de Bodard’s THE RED SCHOLAR’S WAKE | Annalee Newitz’s THE TERRAFORMERS.
These installments conclude the HADRON AGE series! Here’s the complete list.
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 4Q2023 lineup:
A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS | THE MAN WITH SIX SENSES | THE SPACE MERCHANTS | ODD JOHN | TIME OUT OF JOINT.
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 seven series installments that appeared (as part of the ninth edition of this series) in December 2023:
R.K. Scher’s INDIAN MAIDEN | Christopher Sorrentino’s MR. PICKWICK COAT HOOK | David Shields’s MILITARY FIGURE | Josh Kramer’s FAKE BANANA | Laura Lippman’s MOTEL ROOM KEY | Jim Hanas’s WIRE BASKET | Stephanie Reents’s OCEAN SCENE GLOBE
Note: In 2023, Jim Hanas published Lou Reed’s Nephew, a “wickedly smart, highly entertaining” email serial about work, art, tech, and scrimshaw. Soon to be a book from Coffee House Press.
PS: FAKE BANANA was the 100th post in this series….
On to 1Q2024…