Lloyd Bowers | Discover Thrilling Stories: Divide the Country, Freedom as Public Utility, The Results of Polar Bear Research & Keep These In the Family

About the Author

Lloyd Bowers was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1952, graduated from Furman University in 1976, and has lived in Charleston, South Carolina since 2002.

The Results of Polar Bear Research is Lloyd's first novel and was published in 2007. Lloyd's next book, Keep These in the Family, is a collection of twelve stories and was published in 2010.

"I grew up in the South," says Lloyd. "The Southern Appalachians is a sort of fixed foot in my life, and the summer-time is a great time to gravitate unpredictably in social settings."

"Freedom is a Public Utility, published 2014, developed from the discovery of a stash of old family letters, dated 1812 to 1857, mailed to my great-great-grandfather John Siegling, who emigrated from Erfurt, Germany, and settled in Charleston in 1820. That he was en route, or 'unterwegs,' for five years impressed me.

"Divide the Country! was published February, 2020. It reflects my concern about the disunity, and even partisan hatred, that plagues the U.S."

Latest Posts

06 Jul 2026

The Ghost of East Germany

The German historical magazine GEO: Epoche has published an issue about Germany after World War II, titled "Das geteilte Deutschland," in English "The Divided Germany." It makes curiously pertinent reading today, in the context of the present-day dis-United States and the bunker mentality that afflicts the warring sides. Neither side wants to compromise any longer. At this point, only the skill and self-interest of our political leaders fend off deeper conflict, which would adversely affect them, of course!

28 Jun 2026

The Perfect Left-Wing Liberal

The appearance of a former CIA officer John Kiriakou in several YouTube interviews rekindled my interest in Greece. Kiriakou spoke about his service-time in Greece, and the active CIA presence in Greece during the turbulent 1980s and 90s. This came about because the Left-wing prime minister Andreas Papandreou decided to allow terrorist groups to establish stations there. Papandreou only insisted that they not strike at Greek targets.

26 Jun 2026

What do you Believe in?

John leCarré penned the novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in 1963 about a British secret agent named Alec Leamas who undertakes a disinformation campaign to discredit an East German official. As Leamas prepares for his dangerous mission, he meets a girl named Liz Gold at his job in a library.

29 May 2026

The Flaneur

During my visits to Erfurt, Germany, I often eat my lunches at Ballenbergers restaurant, located in the cobbled Gotthardstraße, perpendicular to the medieval Krämerbrücke. Like a lot of high-end German restaurants, it offers a small library for its guests—magazines stacked up carelessly on the shelves, going back a few years. The existence of such a large, high-end literary culture in Germany has always me. Germans know more about America than many Americans.

20 May 2026

The Rank-and-File Republican and his Leaders

We rank-and-file Republicans need to consider defying our leaders and proposing a division of the country, so that we Republicans will only govern other Republicans, and not the usual rag-bag of left-wingers who agree with them on next to nothing—that Republicans want to accomplish with their country.

18 May 2026

Attainable Objectives

This article appeared in the German news-magazine Cicero, in its February, 2026, issue written by Alexander Marguier, Cicero's editor-in-chief. It reads "Germany faces systemic paralysis". In the first sentence of the article, the author writes "Germany works at a dysfunctional level." He lists the reasons in more detail, like the World's economic restructuring and industrial realignment. He can barely contain his alarm:

16 May 2026

Is Something Rotten in America?

This post grew out of my reaction to a recent book titled Why We Hate Us, by the American writer Dick Meyer, a career-journalist. Meyer published a magazine article, ahead of publication, in order to gain some advance-publicity for it. The article, titled "THERE'S SOMETHING ROTTEN in the State of America," draws from a quote in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. As the title-character Prince Hamlet broods over the murder of his father, a guard says famously, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

27 Mar 2026

Just Suppose . . .

I know that Democrats nor Republicans shiver at the prospect of having to govern their own nation, apart from their enemies in the other party; but just suppose that a force outside our control compels us to formally divide the dis-United States, so that two new independent nations emerge, who have the existential responsibility of governing themselves. They can no longer excuse their mistakes by blaming the other party, because the other party no longer plays a part in their affairs.

17 Mar 2026

Where are the Founders Going?

This image from The New Yorker magazine shows the disgruntled, crestfallen Founding Fathers of our country departing the White House over the Hubris of President Trump. The New Yorker makes no secret of its left-wing stance on most issues. A right-wing magazine could just as easily show the Founders departing the Biden White House, after listening to a strident critique of "Constitutional Originalism" by a brash, young, feminist-Democrat.

11 Mar 2026

The Resentful Man

This post began when I was browsing through the The Manchurian Candidate for the fifteenth time—the novel, not the movies—published by Richard Condon in 1959. The novel starts with the abduction and brainwashing of an American platoon in Korea. The intelligence services of China and Russia psychoanalyze the soldiers of the platoon and make a decision about one soldier named Raymond Shaw, a marksman, whom they need to train as an assassin.

09 Mar 2026

Nationhood, by Marcus Garvey

I really began to rethink my views about nationhood after reading The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, republished by his daughter Amy Jacques-Garvey in 1923. I had never even heard of Marcus Garvey until National Public Radio played some Reggae songs dedicated to Garvey on one of its programs, perhaps on Afro-Pop. (He was born in Jamaica.)

23 Feb 2026