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.

Hilobrow Cover Art (2)

By: Joshua Glenn

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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Hilobrow Pinup

By: Joshua Glenn

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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Say it ain’t so, Yoe!

By: Joshua Glenn

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 […]

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Kindle

By: Joshua Glenn

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 […]

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Hi-Lo

By: Joshua Glenn

Hi-Lo Foods is a Jamaica Plain, Mass., supermarket whose sign we’ve always found inspirational.

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New York Mag recognizes hilobrow talent

By: Joshua Glenn

… 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 […]

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Do what thou Wilt

By: Joshua Glenn

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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