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Our circle of hermenautic comrades has turned up several other examples of esteemed authors published in racy paperback editions. Enjoy! Check out the entire series. *** *** *** NB: Hoagland’s Cat Man won the 1954 […]
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On Thursday, the editors of HILOBROW discussed the particulars of our project during a weekly meetup with Brian and Tom Nealon, proprietors of the excellent Pazzo Books (located in the Boston neighborhood of West Roxbury). […]
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Speaking of brows. You know Cadbury’s 2009 viral ad, “Eyebrows”? The one in which two children — peculiarly self-composed, knowing, mysterious, alien-like children — wiggle their eyebrows to the beat of Freestyle Express’s “Don’t Stop […]
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We learned about this chair — it’s called L’Astiko — from the current issue of Wallpaper. It’s a chic lounger in the midcentury style, but the seat is woven from rubber inner tubes. This experiment […]
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Happy Birthday, Vivienne Westwood! MORE HILO BIRTHDAYS THIS MONTH
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File the following under: Warning: Contents Not Nearly as Sexy as You Might Think, or Petards, Prurient Paperback Purchasers Hoisted by Own Check out the entire series. *** — Thanks, C.S., for this one. *** […]
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The circle of hermenauts to which HiLobrow.com’s editors belong doesn’t know when to quit. We keep turning up more hilobrow cover art. Check out the entire series. *** *** *** *** HILOBROW COVER GALLERY: Orwell’s […]
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Some of our ideas about hilobrow found their first expression elsewhere. Here’s an item that was published — in a slightly different version — at the blog Brainiac on 10/24/06. The October issue of Elle […]
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Our circle of hermenautic friends has conjured up a dozen more highbrow (or at least classic) novels with lowbrow cover art. Here’s a selection — thanks, Luc, for the first two. Check out the entire […]
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More hilobrow cover art! Check out the entire series. *** Mad props to Jonathan Lethem for this one. And for reminding us of the following hardboiled-style treatments of Faulkner and Fitzgerald. Readers, please keep the […]
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Check out the entire series. *** *** HiLobrow.com offers thanks and praise to Luc Sante for these images from his collection. Do Murger and Zola count as highbrow? Not sure. Still… *** *** HILOBROW COVER […]
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Long Island, Summer of 1954 — what’s that hardcover book that Marilyn is reading? Daphne du Maurier’s Mary Anne? Irving Stone’s Love is Eternal? Can’t… quite… make it out. Can we zoom in, please? Oh!
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OK, maybe “highbrow” is not the way to describe the books we’re going to display in this series. But esteemed, anyway. Check out the entire series. *** *** *** HILOBROW COVER GALLERY: Orwell’s 1984 | […]
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