Author: 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.
Say it ain’t so, Yoe!
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Craig Yoe’s most recent Arf book (published by Fantagraphics) may be his last. In a March 6 email to those of us who’ve reviewed previous installments of his brilliant series of attractive and engaging books […]
Read This PostKindle
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HiLobrows are emotional, yes; sentimental, (mostly) no. Which means that although we may worship, we try not to fetishize. Or scapegoat, which is the negative form of fetishization. Which brings us to Kindle, and the […]
Read This PostHi-Lo
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Hi-Lo Foods is a Jamaica Plain, Mass., supermarket whose sign we’ve always found inspirational.
Read This PostNew York Mag recognizes hilobrow talent
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… every once in a while. In the magazine’s annual Best of New York issue, Ethan Lipton And His Orchestra were named Best Lounge Act. HiLobrow — one of whom named the video for EL&HO’s […]
Read This PostDo what thou Wilt
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This morning I read Tom Sharpe’s 1976 campus novel, Wilt, because an AbeBooks survey of British readers named it one of the 10 funniest books ever. I was convalescing, and therefore receptive to inspiration. There’s […]
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