HiLobrow is a p-HILO-sophical blog edited by Joshua Glenn.
Boston, Mass.
Joined February 2009
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It's #ScienceFictionDay! Looking for your next great sci-fi read?
Edited by @HILOBROW, our Radium Age series features reissues of proto-science fiction stories from the underappreciated era between 1900 and 1935.
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What's your favorite sci-fi novel? 👇
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Lost objects can leave behind an unfillable hole in an ex-owner’s heart. @notrobwalker and @hilobrow persuaded 50 people to share stories about the things they’ve lost. trib.al/5SxGIdU
I like this new newsletter ZINE MUNCH — a zine about the history of zines. zinemun.ch/p/yum?r=4ie0&s=r&…
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Radium Age series - classic sci-fi reimagined for new audiences. So glad these are out there. Two more coming in May.
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New essay I've written on "The Brilliant Vision of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s 'Sultana’s Dream'" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t… #Literature #ScienceFiction via @mitpress
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Join @madstreetbooks on March 15 at 7 pm ET for a virtual talk on the Radium Age book series featuring Joshua Glenn (@hilobrow) in conversation with Annalee Newitz (@annaleen).
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"These nerds are libraries in human form, and all the more so collectively: capacious reservoirs of information, information collated idiosyncratically, perhaps, but available generously, gregariously." @disquiet with NERD Your Enthusiasm's grand finale: hilobrow.com/2021/12/27/nerd…
"Ten minutes later, having absorbed the picturesque cockpit view – a luxury not generally afforded to modern travelers – I exit Rio airport." Vijay Parthasarathy ventures on some virtual globetrotting for NERD Your Enthusiasm: hilobrow.com/2021/12/23/nerd…
"My angerless Nintendo nerd credentials were called into question thanks to a recent discovery": @RussellBennetts jumps into the Mode 7 wars between Nintendo and Sega/Genesis for NERD Your Enthusiasm hilobrow.com/2021/12/20/nerd…
Heather Kapplow nerds out about nothing. But is that nothing as "nothing" or nothing as "something"...? Maybe both, on today's NERD Your Enthusiasm: hilobrow.com/2021/12/15/nerd…
I just wrote a @AbundantHomesMA letter: Supporting Parking Zoning Reform in Boston. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/su…
Frugal friends — the website Compulsive Reader is running an ADVENTURER’S GLOSSARY giveaway contest… instagram.com/p/CXcEro2P-ty/…
"Coupled with the attack on consumerism is the equally American ethic of wantonly throwing shit away" Charlie Mitchell on the absurdist appeal of Repo Man for NERD Your Enthusiasm hilobrow.com/2021/12/07/nerd…
"Was there ever a time when I wasn’t watching Seinfeld? Presumably there was. But it doesn’t feel like it. Which is of course the point." James Parker on watching Seinfeld in the 2020's for NERD Your Enthusiasm: hilobrow.com/2021/12/10/nerd…
James Parker shares his nerdy enthusiasm for “Seinfeld” — today at HILOBROW! instagram.com/p/CXUU4bzPnfG/…
The Adventurer's Glossary is a word-nerd exploration of the theory and practice of all sorts of adventure boingboing.net/2021/12/09/th…
"Coupled with the attack on consumerism is the equally American ethic of wantonly throwing shit away:" @charli3mitchell on the eternal absurdist appeal of Repo Man for NERD Your Enthusiasm hilobrow.com/2021/12/07/nerd…
"Ostensibly, it can expand to infinity." @kiostark offers up three epiphanies from deep within the Library of Congress Classification Codes in today's NERD Your Enthusiasm: hilobrow.com/2021/12/02/nerd…
"I’ll never complete my research, nor curtail my references." Fall into the joy of rabbitholes with @eweisbard for NERD Your Enthusiasm: hilobrow.com/2021/11/29/nerd…
