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John Tottenham
Failed Visionary
ART
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
- Publication in the Age of Negation Vol 2 part four
- Publication in the Age of Negation Vol 2 part one
- Publication in the Age of Negation Vol 2 part three
- Publication in the Age of Negation Vol 2 part two
- 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
- Maudlin House: Convo (2025)
- 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
- The Measure of a Man
- Trading Inertias
- We Said, They Said: Conv0 (2025)
SERVICE NOTICES
- 3:AM Magazine: Excerpt
- AnOther magazine: anxiety, pain, loneliness and madness
- Buzz: The 'Struggling Writer' Theme
- Buzzmag UK: 'bone-dry but still dazzling'
- Daily Mail: Laugh Out Loud Literary Fiction
- Daily Telegraph: Best Novels of November
- Financial Times: savage, furious, hilarious and melancholic
- Full Stop: Cyril Connolly Blew My Mind
- Guardian: 'a long, very repetitive monologue'
- 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'
- Noel's Newsletter: a counterweight to the overabundance of dick and honey
- 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
- Sam Still Reading: 'Definitely not an uplifting read'
- 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
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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- '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
- Buzzmag UK: 'bone-dry but still dazzling'
- 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
- Full Stop: Cyril Connolly Blew My Mind
- Gold Diggers 10/10/21
- Gone to the Dogs
- Guardian: 'a long, very repetitive monologue'
- Hand To Mouth
- Hate Poems Book Release 12/18
- Hate Poems on Amazon
- Heroin Heroism
- Inertia Variation XXI
- Inertia Variations on Amazon
- 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: Convo (2025)
- 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'
- Noel's Newsletter: a counterweight to the overabundance of dick and honey
- 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
- Publication in the Age of Negation Vol 2 part four
- Publication in the Age of Negation Vol 2 part one
- Publication in the Age of Negation Vol 2 part three
- Publication in the Age of Negation Vol 2 part two
- 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
- Sam Still Reading: 'Definitely not an uplifting read'
- 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 Measure of a Man
- 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
- We Said, They Said: Conv0 (2025)
- 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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