4Q2025 SNEAK PEEK
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September 26, 2025
Here’s what HILOBROW will publish in October, November, and December 2025.
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During 4Q2025, HILOBROW will publish SKANK YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series of enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, on our favorite… ska songs! Here’s the lineup:
Lucy Sante on Margarita’s WOMAN COME | Douglas Wolk on Millie’s MAYFAIR | Lynn Peril on Prince Buster’s TEN COMMANDMENTS | Mark Kingwell on The [English] Beat’s TEARS OF A CLOWN | Annie Nocenti on Jimmy Cliff’s MISS JAMAICA | Mariane Cara on The Selecter’s ON MY RADIO | Adam McGovern on The Specials’ GHOST TOWN | Josh Glenn on The Ethiopians’ TRAIN TO SKAVILLE | Susannah Breslin on The [English] Beat’s MIRROR IN THE BATHROOM | Carl Wilson on Prince Buster / Madness’s ONE STEP BEYOND | Carlo Rotella on The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ THE IMPRESSION THAT I GET | Rani Som on The Bodysnatchers’ EASY LIFE | David Cantwell on Desmond Dekker’s 007 (SHANTY TOWN) | Annie Zaleski on The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ SOME DAY I SUPPOSE | Mimi Lipson on Count Ossie’s OH CAROLINA | Alix Lambert on The Specials’ TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG | Marc Weidenbaum on Dandy Livingstone’s RUDY, A MESSAGE TO YOU | Heather Quinlan on Fishbone’s MA & PA | Will Hermes on The English Beat’s WHINE & GRINE / STAND DOWN MARGARET | Peter Doyle on The Skatalites’ GUNS OF NAVARONE | James Parker on The [English] Beat’s SAVE IT FOR LATER | Brian Berger on The Upsetters’ RETURN OF DJANGO | Francesca Royster on Joya Landis’ ANGEL OF THE MORNING | Deborah Wassertzug on The Bodysnatchers’ TOO EXPERIENCED | Dan Reines on The Untouchables’ I SPY FOR THE FBI.
Josh Glenn is the SKANK series editor. He is very grateful to the series’ contributors, many of whom will donate their honoraria to Covenant House, which provides housing and supportive services to youth facing homelessness.
In 2010–11, HILOBROW serialized Cocky the Fox, a swearing-animal novel by our friend James Parker (with illustrations by Kristin Parker). Earlier this year, James began re-telling the Cocky saga… in the form of an opera, here at HILOBROW!
During 4Q2025, we’ll publish three further installments of COCKY: THE OPERA.
Adam McGovern (shown here) will continue to deliver over-the-transom, on-tangent essays, dialogues and subjective scholarship via his monthly-ish series OFF-TOPIC.
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 4Q2025 lineup:
THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA | GLASSHOUSE | THE DIFFERENT GIRL
WITHOUT CARE is a four-part series, by HILOBROW friend Colin Dickey, on the subject of “The Devoid,” a 21st century Gothic.
University of Toronto philosopher Mark Kingwell and HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn are coauthors of The Idler’s Glossary (2008), The Wage Slave’s Glossary (2011), and The Adventurer’s Glossary (2021). In 2022, they engaged in an epistolary exchange about science fiction. Via the series BROKEN KNOWLEDGE, the title of which references Francis Bacon’s philosophy, HILOBROW will share a lightly edited version of their exchange with our readers.
The series NOT TODAY, EBAY will continue to share recent examples of stuff that Josh was tempted to purchase from eBay… but, heroically, didn’t.
Josh’s other HILOBROW series include: SCREENSHOTS | PHOTO DUMP | HERMENAUTICA
HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn is editor of the RADIUM AGE series of reissued proto-sf adventures from the MIT Press. During 4Q2025, the team will continue to prepare the series’ Spring 2026 titles for publication. These are:
- E. and H. Heron’s Flaxman Low: Occult Detective (March 10), edited and introduced by Alexander B. Joy. “Flaxman Low is the Sherlock Holmes of the ghost world.” — The London Quarterly Review (1900)
- Irene Clyde’s Beatrice the Sixteenth (March 31), introduced by Lucy Sante. “A gynarchic state, Armeria, where women marry each other and buy the babies on whom the future of Armeria depends… Readable and suggestive.” — The Occult Review (1909)
Exciting projects for Fall 2026 and beyond are also in the works…
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 4Q2025 lineup:
- Leslie F. Stone’s “The Fall of Mercury” (1935), cont.
- Alfred Jarry’s The Supermale (1902), excerpt, trans. Josh Glenn
- Fernande Blaze de Bury’s The Storm of London (1904), excerpt
- Marita Bonner’s The Purple Flower (1928)
HILOBROW will publish further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a sampling of the 4Q2025 lineup:
Kochia Tseng’s FIRE IN THE SKY | Carrie W. Clifford’s WARNING | Max Jacobs’ HELL IS GRADUATED | Angela Weld Grimké’s TENEBRIS | Hirato Renkichi’s HOT-BLAST | D.H. Lawrence’s HOLD BACK! | Olaf Stapledon’s “IF GOD HAS NOT NOTICED…” | Edward Silvera’s INTROSPECTION | Mykola Bazhan’s AERO-MARCH | Kurt Heynicke’s HUMAN BEING | Maurice N. Corbett’s THE FUTURE.
RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 1Q2025 | 2Q2025 | 3Q2025 | 4Q2025. FULL SERIES INFO.
On to 4Q2025…