The Big Sleep
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
Josh Glenn is a Boston-based consulting semiotician. He is cofounder of the consultancy Semiovox, editor of the websites SEMIOVOX and HILOBROW, and series editor of The MIT Press's RADIUM AGE. He is an adjunct instructor at RISD and convenor of the monthly online "Semiofest Sessions." His books include The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the family activities guide Unbored. In the ’90s, Josh published the zine/journal Hermenaut; in the 2000s, he was a Boston Globe staffer and columnist.
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
“One soldier more or less doesn’t make any difference, you know.”