John Tottenham

Failed Visionary

  • About John Tottenham
  • ART

    • Emptyscapes
    • Street Scenes
    • Victorian Choking Paintings
    • Walker Paintings
  • ART TICKLES

    • A New Philosophy of Shorts
    • Agents Of Misfortune
    • Blues, Smoke and Mirrors
    • Dinner with the Beardos
    • Disappearing
    • Down From The Mountain
    • Everybody Wants Some
    • Gone to the Dogs
    • Heroin Heroism
    • It's About Time
    • Land of Disenchantment
    • Memory, Narrative, Liminality and Bloviation
    • MILF as Muse
    • On The Road, Again
    • Paul McCarthy's Caribbean Pirates
    • Pleasures Of The Plague
    • Poets House
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.1
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.10
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.10
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.2
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.3
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.4
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.5
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.6
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.7
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.8
    • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.9
    • Punk's Inglorious Second Act
    • Requiem for a Fallen Racetrack
    • Respect for Acting
    • River of Demented Fun
    • Stop Being Supportive
    • Streets of Bakersfield
    • Suicide by Kickstarter
    • The Battle of Forevermore
    • The Death That Won't Die
    • The Demand for Less
    • The Portlandization of Los Angeles
    • The Truth about Minimalism
    • The Undesirables at Manson Family blog
    • The Undesirables in Entropy
    • The V Generation at Vons
    • Tinnitus, Dead Horses and other Vital Issues of the Day
    • To Hell and Back
  • FLICKERINGS

    • A Richer Victory
    • Antiepithalamium 1
    • Dull Night at Zebulon (8/19)
    • Gold Diggers 10/10/21
    • Hate Poems Book Release 12/18
    • Inertia Variation XXI
    • LARB: La Luz 7/13
    • Live on Radio Ragazza
    • Mountain Bar 2010
    • REGRET (animation)
    • Rita House 9/1/22
    • San Francisco 9/12
    • Standard Hotel 8/10
    • Standard Hotel, West Hollywood 11/11
    • The Goldberg Variations: A Minor Trilogy
    • The Lydian Spin
    • Trading Inertias
  • SERVICE NOTICES

    • 3:AM Magazine: Excerpt
    • AnOther magazine: anxiety, pain, loneliness and madness
    • Buzz: The 'Struggling Writer' Theme
    • Daily Mail: Laugh Out Loud Literary Fiction
    • Daily Telegraph: Best Novels of November
    • Financial Times: savage, furious, hilarious and melancholic
    • Interview: An Ode to Bohemia
    • Irish Times: Inventive and Humorous
    • LA Review of Books: An Accommodation Between Futility and Necessity
    • LA Review of Books: Journey to the End of Autofiction
    • Literary Hub: excerpt
    • Literary Review: Nibbling at the Edge of the Literary Life
    • Maudlin House: undercutting the tired auto-fiction game
    • New Zealand Herald: 'I disliked this book a great deal'
    • NY Review of Books: Social Contract Hypocrisies Exposed
    • Observer: A Discomfiting Farce of Male Midlife Desire
    • Paris Review Favorite Books of 2025: a discourse on the vagaries of writing
    • Rain Taxi: Flight into Fiction (interview)
    • Readings: Laughing and Squirming
    • Spectator Australia: Bookshop Blues
    • The Baffler: Against Selling Out
    • Times Literary Supplement: Autofiction Satirized in a Superlative Work of Autofiction
    • Washington Post: A strong entry in the canon of antisocial fiction
    • Zona Motel: A Book About What It’s Like When It All Turns Out Bad
    • Zona Motel: A Transaction with Reality
  • VARIOUS VACILLATIONS

    • Antiepithalamia on Amazon
    • Farcebook
    • Hate Poems on Amazon
    • Inertia Variations on Amazon
    • Instagram
    • K-Bomb Publishing
    • Penny-Ante Editions
    • Twitter: A Revolution of the Mind
  • VEILED VANITIES

    • 'Sing Of Human Unsuccess' LARB 4/19
    • A Failed Visionary, A Demythifier, A Plagiarist
    • A Lack of Elegy
    • Dangerous Minds Valentine's 2019
    • Deep Sentiments about the State of the World
    • Disinterred View
    • Dourness, Bleakness and Overtly Depressing Tones
    • Educated Outsider
    • Hand To Mouth
    • Interview with an Arch-Miserabilist and Beer-Cadger
    • Laughing at the Artwork
    • Magical Cynicism
    • Magnanimous Misanthropy
    • My Proudest Moment
    • NY Review of Books review
    • Poet of Procrastination
    • Scroll down for fulsome praise
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A soft insidious plea

Self-Sabotage

If anyone’s interested in acquiring any of the drawings
featured on these pages, it can be done fairly painlessly
by contacting me at this address: otiosity@sbcglobal.net

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Posted on February 21, 2014 at 9:41 pm in Art Damage, Scratchy Ink Drawings, Shameless self-promotion   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL

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  • 'Sing Of Human Unsuccess' LARB 4/19
  • 3:AM Magazine: Excerpt
  • A Failed Visionary, A Demythifier, A Plagiarist
  • A Lack of Elegy
  • A New Philosophy of Shorts
  • A Richer Victory
  • Agents Of Misfortune
  • AnOther magazine: anxiety, pain, loneliness and madness
  • Antiepithalamia on Amazon
  • Antiepithalamium 1
  • Blues, Smoke and Mirrors
  • Buzz: The 'Struggling Writer' Theme
  • Daily Mail: Laugh Out Loud Literary Fiction
  • Daily Telegraph: Best Novels of November
  • Dangerous Minds Valentine's 2019
  • Deep Sentiments about the State of the World
  • Dinner with the Beardos
  • Disappearing
  • Disinterred View
  • Dourness, Bleakness and Overtly Depressing Tones
  • Down From The Mountain
  • Dull Night at Zebulon (8/19)
  • Educated Outsider
  • Emptyscapes
  • Everybody Wants Some
  • Farcebook
  • Financial Times: savage, furious, hilarious and melancholic
  • Gold Diggers 10/10/21
  • Gone to the Dogs
  • Hand To Mouth
  • Hate Poems Book Release 12/18
  • Hate Poems on Amazon
  • Heroin Heroism
  • Inertia Variation XXI
  • Inertia Variations on Amazon
  • Instagram
  • Interview with an Arch-Miserabilist and Beer-Cadger
  • Interview: An Ode to Bohemia
  • Irish Times: Inventive and Humorous
  • It's About Time
  • K-Bomb Publishing
  • LA Review of Books: An Accommodation Between Futility and Necessity
  • LA Review of Books: Journey to the End of Autofiction
  • Land of Disenchantment
  • LARB: La Luz 7/13
  • Laughing at the Artwork
  • Literary Hub: excerpt
  • Literary Review: Nibbling at the Edge of the Literary Life
  • Live on Radio Ragazza
  • Magical Cynicism
  • Magnanimous Misanthropy
  • Maudlin House: undercutting the tired auto-fiction game
  • Memory, Narrative, Liminality and Bloviation
  • MILF as Muse
  • Mountain Bar 2010
  • My Proudest Moment
  • New Zealand Herald: 'I disliked this book a great deal'
  • NY Review of Books review
  • NY Review of Books: Social Contract Hypocrisies Exposed
  • Observer: A Discomfiting Farce of Male Midlife Desire
  • On The Road, Again
  • Paris Review Favorite Books of 2025: a discourse on the vagaries of writing
  • Paul McCarthy's Caribbean Pirates
  • Penny-Ante Editions
  • Pleasures Of The Plague
  • Poet of Procrastination
  • Poets House
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.1
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.10
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.10
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.2
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.3
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.4
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.5
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.6
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.7
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.8
  • Publication in the Age of Negation pt.9
  • Punk's Inglorious Second Act
  • Rain Taxi: Flight into Fiction (interview)
  • Readings: Laughing and Squirming
  • REGRET (animation)
  • Requiem for a Fallen Racetrack
  • Respect for Acting
  • Rita House 9/1/22
  • River of Demented Fun
  • San Francisco 9/12
  • Scroll down for fulsome praise
  • Spectator Australia: Bookshop Blues
  • Standard Hotel 8/10
  • Standard Hotel, West Hollywood 11/11
  • Stop Being Supportive
  • Street Scenes
  • Streets of Bakersfield
  • Suicide by Kickstarter
  • The Baffler: Against Selling Out
  • The Battle of Forevermore
  • The Death That Won't Die
  • The Demand for Less
  • The Goldberg Variations: A Minor Trilogy
  • The Lydian Spin
  • The Portlandization of Los Angeles
  • The Truth about Minimalism
  • The Undesirables at Manson Family blog
  • The Undesirables in Entropy
  • The V Generation at Vons
  • Times Literary Supplement: Autofiction Satirized in a Superlative Work of Autofiction
  • Tinnitus, Dead Horses and other Vital Issues of the Day
  • To Hell and Back
  • Trading Inertias
  • Twitter: A Revolution of the Mind
  • Victorian Choking Paintings
  • Walker Paintings
  • Washington Post: A strong entry in the canon of antisocial fiction
  • Zona Motel: A Book About What It’s Like When It All Turns Out Bad
  • Zona Motel: A Transaction with Reality
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