Bowie Book Club Podcast

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Writers at Work: The First Series, a compendium of interviews with writers that proves to be as dazzling as a round of George Plimpton's Video Falconry. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon Facebook Instagram Web Presence Tell us what you think should be on Bowie's list that isn't!! Our Bookshop Visit our lists on bookshop.org and help support the podcast (and independent bookstores too!) Stuff We Talked About The Paris Review: A CIA Front? The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen George Plimpton's Video Falconry The Kingdom and the Power by Gay Talese What Are We Reading (and when and where) Greg: Funny Papers by Tom DeHaven The House with a Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs The Librarianist by Patrick DeWitt Kristianne Dead Mom's Club by Kate Spencer The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Strange People by Frank Edwards Permalink

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Beano, a British comic that has been teaching the fundamentals of anarchy to the youth of the UK decades before Johnny Rotten gave his first snarl.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read we read The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos, a big sweeping tale of America at the turn of the 20th century, including getting chased by a farmer with a shotgun, which happened all the time back then.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, which has all the bowels and loins anyone could ask for. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon Facebook Instagram Web Presence Our Bookshop Visit our lists on bookshop.org and help support the podcast (and independent bookstores too!) Stuff We Talked About Geoffrey Robertson's article on the banning of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Phillip Larkin's mention of LCL What Are We Reading? Greg: Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis Cometbus and Love and Rockets The Serpent Coiled in Naples by Marius Kociejowski Kristianne: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune Night Vision by Mariana Alessandri What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passo

Welcome to another episode of the **Bowie Book Club**, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman - if you're a fan of gin n' ginger ale or of extremely stylized dialog, you're going to love this one.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read * Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, a novel of deception, doublecross, and people being absolute fucksters to each other. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon Facebook Instagram Web Presence Our Bookshop Visit our lists on bookshop.org and help support the podcast (and independent bookstores too!) Stuff We Talked About The Handmaiden - movie version of Fingersmith by cue ChatGPT Park Chan-Wook London Labor and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew What Are We Reading? Greg: Spring by Ali Smith Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna Kristianne: Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read White Noise by Don DeLillo, a very funny, very timely book about death, among other concerns. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter (nah). Mastadon. Facebook Instagram Web Presence Our Bookshop Visit our lists on bookshop.org and help support the podcast (and independent bookstores too!) Stuff We Talked About The movie version of White Noise article on the train derailment in Ohio NYT magazine article on White Noise - the movie Spectator article on White Noise and the interwebs Heathen revisted What Are We Reading? Greg: Libra by Don DeLillo Underworld by Don D (but I'm unlikely to finish it before we start Fingersmith) Ducks Kristianne: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (May) How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read a doorstop of a history of the Russian Revolution: Orlando Figes' "A People's Tragedy".

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders by Lawrence Weschler, a short, sharp treatise on a weird, weird museum. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Our Bookshop Visit our lists on bookshop.org and help support the podcast (and independent bookstores too!) Stuff We Talked About Lawrence Weschler's Website The (very Jurassic) website for the Museum of Jurassic Technology The American Museum of Natural History in NYC Maryhill Museum The City Museum in St. Louis We didn't mention it, but Greg just read this NYRB article about an early, anatomically focused cabinet of wonderp What Are We Reading? Favorite Books of 2022! Kristianne Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith A Constellation of Vital Phenomena or Mercury Pictures Presents - Anthony Marra (bonus: also author of The Tsar of Love and Techno ) The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century - Kim Fu (I read 11 short story collections this year! Kelly Link, Ted Chiang, Rebecca Makkai, Sequoia Nagamatsu) The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa Greg The Leopard (of course) Maybe the People Would be the Times and Low Life - Lucy Sante LaserWriter II - Tamara Shopsin Means of Ascent - Robert Caro Life After Life - Kate Atkinson What Song Did We Choose? and Dave rocking the pirate shirt on The Tonight Show: What's Up Next A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes