HILOBROW 1Q2024
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March 30, 2024
Here’s what HILOBROW published during January, February, and March 2024. We’re grateful to our many stalwart contributors, and also to first-time contributors Alycia Chillemi, Rene Rosa, Christopher Cannon, MÖSH contest winner Tony Pacitti, and MÖSH contest runner-up James Scott Maloy.
BEST OF HILOBROW: 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 1Q2024 | 2Q2024 SNEAK PEEK | 2Q2024.
Also see: HYPOCRITE IDLER 1Q2024.
MÖSH YOUR ENTHUSIASM is a series of 25 enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, on the topic of heavy metal songs from the Eighties (1984–1993, in our periodization scheme). Here’s the lineup:
INTRODUCTION by Heather Quinlan | Crockett Doob on Metallica’s ENTER SANDMAN | Dean Haspiel on Mötley Crüe’s HOME SWEET HOME | Jack Silbert on Poison’s TALK DIRTY TO ME | Adam McGovern on Dio’s INVISIBLE | Mariane Cara on Faith No More’s EPIC | Heather Quinlan on Blue Öyster Cult’s SHOOTING SHARK | Steve Schneider on UFO’s DIESEL IN THE DUST | Carlo Rotella on Primus’ JERRY WAS A RACE CAR DRIVER | Erik Davis on St. Vitus’ BORN TOO LATE | Greg Rowland on Motörhead’s ACE OF SPADES (remix) | Kathy Biehl on Twisted Sister’s WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT | Nikhil Singh on G.I.S.M.’s GAS BURNER PANIC | Erin M. Routson on Metallica’s ESCAPE | Holly Interlandi on Helmet’s MILQUETOAST | Marc Weidenbaum on Celtic Frost’s I WON’T DANCE (THE ELDERS’ ORIENT) | Amy Keyishian on Living Colour’s CULT OF PERSONALITY | Josh Glenn on Scorpions’ STILL LOVING YOU | Alycia Chillemi on Danzig’s SOUL ON FIRE | James Parker on Godflesh’s CHRISTBAIT RISING | Miranda Mellis on The Afflicted’s HERE COME THE COPS | Rene Rosa on Type O Negative’s BLACK NO. 1 | Tony Leone on Slayer’s SOUTH OF HEAVEN | Christopher Cannon on Neurosis’s LOST | Brian Berger on Black Sabbath’s HEADLESS CROSS | MÖSH CONTEST-WINNING ENTRY: Tony Pacitti on Metallica’s THE CALL OF KTULU. PLUS: CONTEST RUNNER-UP: James Scott Maloy on Accept’s MIDNIGHT MOVER.
Heather Quinlan is the MÖSH 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. Heather is also grateful to everyone who entered the MÖSH essay contest!
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 1Q2024 lineup:
NO ISLAND IS A MAN: The past is prophecy: EDEL RODRIGUEZ speaks and shows | ALL THE WORLDS: Lucy Sante’s I HEARD HER CALL MY NAME and other twice-told lives
Tom Nealon continued to contribute new installments to CONDIMENT ABECEDARIUM, an apophenic food-history series. Here’s the 1Q2024 lineup:
TZATZIKI / TARTAR SAUCE | UMEBOSHI / UNAGI SAUCE.
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 1Q2024 lineup:
THE SOFT MACHINE | SOLARIS | CAMP CONCENTRATION | CAT’S CRADLE | FRIDAY | BABEL-17.
HILOBROW friend (and brother-in-law) Lawry Hutcheson returned with a third year’s worth of gorgeous linocut calendar art — via the series LINOCUT 2023.
Additional ongoing HILOBROW series: SCHEMATIZING, SCREENSHOTS, and PHOTO DUMP.
HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn is editor of the RADIUM AGE series of reissued proto-sf adventures from the MIT Press. During 1Q2024, the following titles were published:
- THE INHUMANS AND OTHER STORIES: A SELECTION OF BENGALI SCIENCE FICTION, edited and translated by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. Cover illustration by Seth. “A genuine moment of science fiction’s arrival in interwar Bengal.” — Anindita Banerjee. See this title at the MIT Press website.
- Charlotte Haldane’s MAN’S WORLD (1926), with a new introduction by Philippa Levine. Cover illustration by Seth. “A volatile admixture of feminist revelations with racially biased eugenic theorizing.” — Alexandra Minna Stern. See this title at the MIT Press website.
During 1Q2024, we began publishing RADIUM AGE ART, a series exploring sf-adjacent artwork created during the genre’s emergent Radium Age (1900–1935). Here’s the 1Q2024 lineup:
1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908.
HILOBROW published further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a selection from the 1Q2024 lineup:
William Stanley Braithwaite’s DEL CASCAR | F.V. Brandford’s THE MOON | Michael Roberts’ PERSPECTIVE | William Empson’s LETTER I | Amy Lowell’s MIDDAY AND AFTERNOON | Wallace Stevens’s FABLIAU OF FLORIDA | and others.
To see the full RADIUM AGE POETRY lineup, visit this page.
As we have done for over ten years now, we’ve continued to serialize some of Josh’s favorite Radium Age proto-sf stories and novels. Here’s the 1Q2024 lineup:
- May Sinclair’s “Where Their Fire is Not Quenched” (1922)
- Irene Clyde’s Beatrice the Sixteenth (1909)
- Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “The Ray of Displacement” (1903)
- Van Tassel Sutphen’s The Doomsman (1905–1906)
- Rudyard Kipling’s “Unprofessional” (1930)
RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 1Q2024. FULL SERIES INFO.
The series FIRST TIME AS COMEDY investigates the first-time-as-comedy phenomenon. As HILOBROW friend Greg Rowland once pointed out to us, this is a pop-culture syndrome wherein a satirical or comedic entertainment is remade — without acknowledgment, typically — as a sentimental, earnest, and (often, not always) middlebrow tragedy, drama, or melodrama. Here’s the 1Q2024 lineup:
SUPERDUPERMAN vs. WATCHMEN | WILD IN THE STREETS vs. PREZ | EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES vs. M.
The following was cross-posted to HILOBROW from elsewhere.
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 five series installments that appeared (as part of the ninth edition of this series) in January 2024:
Tom Vanderbilt on MARINES LOGO MUG | Adam Harrison Levy on STAR OF DAVID PLATE | Aimee Bender on SEAHORSE LIGHTER | Bruce Holland Rogers on UMBRELLA TRINKET | Bruno Maddox on THAI HOOKS.
On to 2Q2024…