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Books by Greg Bottoms
  | | Lowest White Boy(1st Edition) (In Place) by Greg Bottoms Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2019 by West Virginia University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-946684-96-7, ISBN: 1-946684-96-1 "An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Johnson’s observation during the civil rights era: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket.”Greg Bottoms writes about growing up white and working class in Tidewater, Virginia, during school desegregation in the 1970s. He offers brief stories that accumulate to ..." |
 | | Spiritual American Trash Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith by Greg Bottoms, W. David Powell Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-059-7, ISBN: 1-61902-059-9 "In Spiritual American Trash, Greg Bottoms goes beyond the examination of eight "outsider artists" and inhabits the spirit of their work and stories in engaging vignettes. From the janitor who created a holy throne room out of scraps in a garage, to the lonely wartime mother who filled her home with driftwood replicas of Bible scenes, Bottoms illustrates the peculiar grace in madness. Using facts as scaffolding he constructs intimate nar ..." |
 | | Pitiful Criminals by Greg Bottoms, David Powell Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2014 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-311-6, ISBN: 1-61902-311-3 "In "Pitiful Criminals," Greg Bottoms offers thirteen genre-bending chapters from his past that take a close look at the lives of small-time criminals driven, often by confusion and desperation, to deeds that range from the absurd to the heinous. We meet the author's schizophrenic arsonist brother, a depressed pot grower, a damaged ex-dealer who barely escaped a violent burglary, a born-again teenage shooter, and other alienated American ..." |
 | | Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks Stories from the New South by Greg Bottoms Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2007 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-130-1, ISBN: 1-59376-130-9 "Provocatively blurring the lines between autobiography, short fiction, and essay, Greg Bottoms presents a series of fifteen honest and beautifully spare tales of class, poverty, violence, and racism set in the margins of the urban and suburban New South.An ode to Pulitzer-nominee Breece D'J Pancake's life and untimely death, the title story deftly interweaves Bottoms's personal history to insightful result. In the transformative The Me ..." |
 | | The Colorful Apocalypse(1st Edition) Journeys in Outsider Art by Greg Bottoms Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06687-5, ISBN: 0-226-06687-8 " The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel the country. Beginning in Georgia with a trip to Finster’s famous Paradise Gardens, his journey—of which The Colorful Apocalypse is a masterly chronicle—is an unparalleled look into t ..." |
 | | Swallowing the Past Scenes from the Postmodern South by Mr. Greg Bottoms Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2011 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-60-1, ISBN: 1-933896-60-4 "Swallowing the Past is a prose collection about ordinary lives in the ever-changing, postmodern South. A teenage killer ends up a smiling adult bridesmaid. A conservative Christian couple tells the story of a hate crime. A parable about a stolen bike illuminates how lying can be a survival technique. Meeting an old friend at an ATM turns into a meditation on how some people should die. The book closes with “Grace Street,” a dre ..." |
 | | The Colorful Apocalypse(1st Edition) Journeys in Outsider Art by Greg Bottoms Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06685-1, ISBN: 0-226-06685-1 "The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel the country. Beginning in Georgia with a trip to Finster's famous "Paradise Gardens", his journey - of which "The Colorful Apocalypse" is a masterly chronicle - provides an unparalleled ..." |
 | | Angelhead(2nd Edition) My Brother's Descent into Madness by Greg Bottoms Paperback, 227 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06764-3, ISBN: 0-226-06764-5 "When he was 10 years old, the author watched as his brother Michael lost his mind. High on LSD and screaming uncontrollably because God was torturing him, the 14-year-old smashed everything in his bedroom, his feet red with blood from broken glass. Michael collected snakes and let them slither around his naked body; he beat Greg nearly senseless, then smashed his own forehead into a sharp branch in repentance; he stayed up all ..." |
 | | Angelhead(1st Edition) My Brother's Descent into Madness by Greg Bottoms Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Three Rivers Press (Ca) ISBN-13: 978-0-609-80714-9, ISBN: 0-609-80714-5 |
 | | Angelhead(1st Edition) My Brother's Descent into Madness by Greg Bottoms Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Crown ISBN-13: 978-0-609-60626-1, ISBN: 0-609-60626-3 ""My brother saw the face of God. You never recover from a trauma like that."So begins Angelhead, a taut, powerful memoir of the madness and crime that rips a family apart. "I didn't see God, of course, but I saw my brother seeing God; I saw how petrified he was, how convinced."Set in Tidewater, Virginia, in the 1980s and early 1990s, Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled, schizophrenic descent of the author's brother, Michael. Co ..." |
 | | Fight Scenes by Greg Bottoms, David Powell Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2008 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-129-5, ISBN: 1-59376-129-5 "In an intricately linked series of poetic, short tales set in a 1983 suburb, Greg Bottoms portrays his life as one of two "at-risk" boys as they attempt to learn how to be--and what it means to be--men. By turns funny, disquieting, and moving, Fight Scenes takes an unsparing look at juvenile disaffection and the dark side of white, working-class masculinity. By narrating his experiences with childhood buddy Mark, Bottoms shows how many ..." |
 | | Sentimental Heartbroken Rednecks(1st Edition) Stories by Greg Bottoms Hardcover, 235 Pages, Published 2001 by Context Books ISBN-13: 978-1-893956-15-5, ISBN: 1-893956-15-6 "This powerful collection of rich, skillfully crafted stories by the author of Angelhead chronicles the lives of eccentrics--from a senile old woman to a crackhead thief--with tenderness and honesty." |
 | | The Colorful Apocalypse(Large Print) (1 Volume Set): Journeys in Outsider Art (Paperback) by Greg Bottoms Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2011 by Readhowyouwant Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-1432-1, ISBN: 1-4596-1432-1 "The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel the country. Beginning in Georgia with a trip to Finster's famous Paradise Gardens, his journey-of which The Colorful Apocalypse is a masterly chronicle-is an unparalleled look into the ..." |
 | | Pitiful Criminals by Greg Bottoms 204 Pages, Published 2014 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-386-4, ISBN: 1-61902-386-5 "Bookending these pieces is the story of Bottoms’ own brother, who, in a spiraling schizophrenic episode, set fire to the house with his sleeping family inside, convinced the home would be purged of his demons if he could just burn them ..." |
 | | Spiritual American Trash Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith by Greg Bottoms 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Catapult ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-210-2, ISBN: 1-61902-210-9 "It was taken sometime in the '90s by a photographer named Ted Degener, who has documented many outsider artists and outsider art environments. I'm looking at it because I'm trying to fathom the final, dark turn his psychology took ..." |
 | | The Colorful Apocalypse Journeys in Outsider Art by Greg Bottoms Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06688-2, ISBN: 0-226-06688-6 |
 | | Fight Scenes by Greg Bottoms, David Powell 144 Pages, Published 2008 by Counterpoint Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-652-4, ISBN: 1-58243-652-5 "In a pared-down, highly readable style that brings to mind the work of Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie, and Denis Johnson, Bottoms has created a work of literature that shows how even the most accepted forms of ?toughnessOCO can have a ..." |
 | | Angelhead - My Brother's Decent Into Madness by Greg Bottoms Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Headline Book Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7472-5271-9, ISBN: 0-7472-5271-8 "Set in Tidewater, Virginia, in the 1980s and early 1990s, this volume documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into paranoid schizophrenia." |
 | | Angelhead(Updated) My Brother's Descent into Madness - Bottoms, Greg - Paperback by Greg Bottoms Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by Headline Review ISBN-13: 978-0-7472-5272-6, ISBN: 0-7472-5272-6 "When he was 10 years old, the author watched as his brother Michael lost his mind. High on LSD and screaming uncontrollably because God was torturing him, the 14-year-old smashed everything in his bedroom, his feet red with blood from broken glass. Michael collected snakes and let them slither around his naked body; he beat Greg nearly senseless, then smashed his own forehead into a sharp branch in repentance; he stayed up all night, wa ..." |
 | | The WRUV Reader Now in Color by The Best Vermont, Greg Bottoms, Suzi Wizowaty, Tina Escaja, Tony Magistrale, Nancy Welch, Isaac Cates, Benjamin Aleshire, Angela Patten, Lisa Schnell, Philip Baruth, Theodora Ziolkowski, Major Jackson, Abby Paige, David Huddle, Antonello Bora, Marc Estrin, David Cavanagh, Amy Huntington, Sarah Dillard, Chris Evans Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 2012 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-4783-2681-6, ISBN: 1-4783-2681-6 "A Deluxe Edition to Benefit Media Education: The iconic radio station WRUV has been on the air since 1955, when it first began broadcasting out of its smoke-filled studio at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Over the years, programming has ranged from the conventional to the absurd, from pleasant to downright disturbing. This deluxe, all-color version of The WRUV Reader reflects this spirit in a selection of stories, poems, essay ..." |
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