From 1992 through 2001 Glenn was publisher and coeditor of Hermenaut, a philosophy and cultural criticism periodical, described as "a zine that gives voice to indie intellectual thought... a scholarly journal minus the university, a sounding board for thinking folk who operate outside the ivory tower".

[1][2] Glenn wrote a feature in each issue on a single "hermenaut" (or "outsider intellectual") including Theodor W. Adorno, Philip K. Dick, Bruce Lee, Oscar Wilde, Abbie Hoffman, and Simone Weil.

"[7] When the TV newsmagazine Nightline did an episode on Tripod, Glenn pranked the show's producers by making up digital newspeak "Let's get FTP connectivity hyped up to the hilt.

[10][11][12] In 2007, Glenn coedited Taking Things Seriously, a collection of 75 photos of and essays about objects of "unexpected significance", which made Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" in October 2007.

[25] In 2022, Hat & Beard Press announced a forthcoming book Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss and Why They Matter by Glenn and Walker.

[26] Glenn and Malcolm Evans, a British semiotician, launched Semionaut in 2010, an international website about semiotic cultural and brand analysis, with contributors from Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan, Russia and Saudi Arabia.

In 2011, Glenn and Mark Kingwell published The Wage Slave's Glossary, which "looks at the language we use to make sense of the interconnected world of work and leisure.

"[27] In 2021, McGill-Queen’s University Press published a third book in the series, The Adventurer’s Glossary written by Glenn and Mark Kingwell, with illustrations by Seth.

"[31][32] In 2012 Glenn and Hilobrow co-editor Matthew Battles printed a series of public domain Radium Age titles beginning in 2012 on their own imprint HiLo Books.