1,359 words
Jonathan Bowden
Apocalypse TV
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2007
Apocalypse TV was published in August 2007 by the Spinning Top Club. It runs to 239 pages and contains a pencil sketch of the author in the frontispiece or prelims by Michael Woodbridge. It is quite different to the other books which I have reviewed by this author — novels and plays, etc. . . . — by being directly non-fictional in character. (more…)
1,033 words
Jonathan Bowden
Al-Qa’eda MOTH
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008
This picaresque novel was published in August 2008 by the Spinning Top Club in England. The novel is a slightly unusual departure for Bowden in that it is a Western — albeit of a spectral or ghoulish sort. It could be best described as a supernatural western crossed with an intellectual treatise.
907 words
Jonathan Bowden
Kratos and Other Works
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008
The book Kratos was published by the Spinning Top Club in very early 2008. It extends over 157 pages. It consists of four independent stories of around the same length.
903 words
Jonathan Bowden
The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008
This book was published in 2008 by the Spinning Top Club in London. It is a Gothic or picaresque novel of 178 pages. This book can be considered in two basic ways. The first revolves around purely literary considerations. These have to do with an external or diachronic quality which Wyndham Lewis first explicated in the ’20s or before. (more…)
1,078 words
Jonathan Bowden
A Ballet of Wasps
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008
A Ballet of Wasps is a collection of four short stories and a play. (more…)
872 words
Jonathan Bowden
Louisiana Half-Face
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2010
Louisiana Half-Face was published in the first half of 2010. (more…)
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Jonathan Bowden
Lilith Before Eve
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009
This book contains four plays which are more likely to be read than played in the theater. (more…)
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Jonathan Bowden
Goodbye, Homunculus!
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009
This volume consists of four stories of approximately equal length. Their titles are “Goodbye, Homunculus!,” “Iron Breath,” “Armageddon’s Village,” and “Noughts are Crosses.” Each one of them deals with extreme takes on the imagination, and the entire book teeters on the edge of various genres. (more…)