4Q2024 SNEAK PEEK

By: HILOBROW
September 25, 2024

Here’s a preview of HILOBROW’s publishing plans for October, November, and December 2024.

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ENTHUSIASMS


During 4Q2024, we will publish 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:

Crockett Doob on THE SHINING | Dean Haspiel on TOURIST TRAP | Fran Pado on M3GAN | Erin 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.


CONDIMENT ABCs


Tom Nealon (shown above) will wrap up CONDIMENT ABECEDARIUM, a long-running apophenic food-history series.


OFF-TOPIC


Adam McGovern (shown above) will continue to deliver over-the-transom, on-tangent essays, dialogues and subjective scholarship via his monthly-ish series OFF-TOPIC.


ONGOING SERIES


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

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FIRST TIME AS COMEDY is a series dedicated to surfacing examples of comedies remade as earnest dramas. Here’s the 4Q2024 lineup:

LITTLE BIG MAN vs. DANCES WITH WOLVES | THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO vs. BE KIND, REWIND | THE IPCRESS FILE vs. THE IPCRESS FILE

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Additional ongoing HILOBROW series: SCHEMATIZING | SCREENSHOTS | PHOTO DUMP | NOT TODAY, EBAY


RADIUM AGE PROTO-SF


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 will send the series’ two Spring 2025 tiles to press. These include:

  • 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)
  • 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)

Also, Josh and the MITP production team will move the Fall 2025 titles along into the production process. These include: Marietta S. Shaginyan’s Yankees in Petrograd (August 2025, translated and introduced by Jill Roese) and the anthology Before Superman: Superhumans of the Radium Age (August 2025, edited and introduced by Josh).

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Emil Bisttram’s “Metropolis” (1929)

Here at HILOBROW, meanwhile, we will wrap up the series RADIUM AGE ART. Here’s the 4Q2024 lineup:

1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935

Also, 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 3Q2024 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 will also publish 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” | Angela Morgan’s TO MADAME CURIE.

More RADIUM AGE POETRY.

RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 1Q2024 | 2Q2024 | 3Q2024. FULL SERIES INFO.

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On to 4Q2024…

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