The Book is a Weapon (4)
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Sculpture by unknown artist — image found on Flickr and sent into us. If you have info, please drop us a line. *** Fourth in an occasional series.
Read This PostAuthor: Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Kingston, NY.
Mad househusbands
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Editor’s note: This is one of the most popular posts, traffic-wise, ever published on HiLobrow. Click here to see a list of the Top 25 Most Popular posts (as of October 2012); and click here […]
Read This PostThe Book is a Weapon (3)
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Artist: Broder, S. Title: “Books are weapons in the war of ideas : books cannot be killed by fire” Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O. : Distributed by Division of Public Inquiry, O.W.I., Date: 1942. […]
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I’m thrilled to announce the Significant Objects Story Contest. In partnership with the editors of Slate, Rob Walker and I (who are running an experiment called Significant Objects) invite submissions of a 500-word story featuring […]
Read This PostFrank Herbert
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Alia, a telepathic four-year-old girl who, in the bestselling science fiction novel of all time, roams the battlefields of Arrakis slitting the throats of imperial stormtroopers, gained her powers in utero because her mother drank […]
Read This PostThe Book is a Weapon (2)
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From John Holbo’s Pulp Mystery photostream on Flickr. *** Second in an occasional series.
Read This PostMiddlebrow Bestsellers — Week of 9/27/09
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1) THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $15.) A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Sentimental, uplifting, a favorite gift from compassionate conservatives to their […]
Read This PostMIDDLEBROW BESTSELLERS — THIS WEEK
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Same as last week, except Gladwell Moore’s Clunk enters the list at no. 8, knocking out Don Piper’s 90 Minutes in Heaven. 1) THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, […]
Read This PostEngaged vs. Disengaged Irony
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A quick note about Neo-Dadaists and Pop Art. This item is excerpted from yesterday’s essay on the Postmodernist Generation. Neo-Dada artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Yves Klein were born between 1924-33. Reacting […]
Read This PostJohn Brunner
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The popularity of apocalyptic fiction in the Sixties (1964-73), it has been suggested, indicates that SF writers had become bored and suspicious of utopian idylls promising that ameliorative reforms could right modern civilization’s manifold wrongs; […]
Read This PostPostmodernists: 1924-33
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Those born from 1924-33 are nearly impervious to Middlebrow’s discourse.
Read This PostAmbivalent about New Age?
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HILOBROW is superficially similar, as we’ve noted, to Middlebrow. So HiLobrow despises Middlebrow for the same reason that idlers detest slackers, and punks detest rockists: we’re afraid that we’re really just like them. No wonder, […]
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