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 In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner - an eccentric polymath, kind of like a certain David Jones we all know. Plus, T.S. Eliot impersonations! Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter - sort of? - we're also bookclub@mastadon.social too! 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 Adam Gopnik's postscript on Steiner in the New Yorker "Our Steiner Problem, and Mine" by Lee Siegel The T.S. Eliot Lecture Series Hex Enduction Records and Books - Seattle's best record n' book store. Irving Howe didn't like these Magic and Loss - The Internet as Art The Book Exchange in Missoula What Are We Reading? Greg: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Kristianne: Square Eyes by Anna Mill and Luke Jones The Unwritten Book by Samantha Hunt What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders - Lawrence Weschler

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 Room at the Top by John Braine, about an angry young man in a dirty old town. 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 Life at the Top - the sequel! Man at the Top - the BBC sequel (to the sequel?) Simone Signoret Graywolf Press The Dorothy Project Chris O'Leary's Patreon Bluebeard - it was actually a mouse, not a cat! What Are We Reading? Greg: American Midnight edited by Laird Hunt Hand Drying in America by Ben Katchor Master of the Senate by Robert Caro Kristianne: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà purchased at Symposium Books! Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik Subdivision by J Robert Lennon bought at Exile in Bookville The Wild Hunt - by Emma Seckel What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next In Bluebeard's Castle - George Steiner

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 On the Road by everyone's high school boyfriend, Jack Kerouac. We also talk about the new Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream which we just saw IN A MOVIE THEATRE shudder! 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 Joyce Johnson's article on Kerouac and Robert Frank Hal Chase/Chad King Slate Star Codex review NYT article about Moonage Daydream What Are We Reading? Greg: Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald Kristianne: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary (and the amazing movie starring Alec Guinness) What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Room at the Top - John Braine

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 Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, a slow, stately book about a very hot island. 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 The movie version of The Leopard The Last Leopard - biography of Guisippe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour Guardian article on Lampedusa and Machievelli NYT article on the 50th anniversary of the book Here's the trailer for Moonage Daydream What Are We Reading? Greg: The Dancing Plague by Gareth Fellowes A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman A Year with Swollen Appendages by Brian Eno Kristianne: The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova What Song Did We Choose? In Italian! What's Up Next On the Road - Jacky Kerouac

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 Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard - a play where a lot happens just off stage and there's a lot of talking about thinking.

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 In Between the Sheets, a kind-of-sort-of creepy book of short stories by Ian McEwan. 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 NY Times review of In Between the Sheets - spoiler: didn't like. The Czar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor LA Weekly article on Bowie in L.A. Pushing ahead of the Dame on Scary Monsters What Are We Reading? Greg: Brain Bats from Venus by Greg Sadowski Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler Kristianne: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu The Heroine with 1000 Faces by Maria Tatar How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelman What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard

Dive into the intriguing world of Gustave Flaubert with a novel that blurs the lines of literary criticism and fiction. The hosts explore the deeper meanings behind Julian Barnes's portrayal of a retired doctor and his quest for understanding Flaubert's apparent avian enigma. They discuss the allure of authorial biographies, the pitfalls of academic analysis, and the central theme that fully knowing another person is an elusive pursuit. Plus, discover how Bowie's persona resonates with the book's themes and enjoy a soundtrack that captures its ambiguity.

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 Money by Martin Amis - the literary equivalent of watching someone fall down thousands of flights of stairs and wondering why you're laughing so hard. 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 Steve Martin interviews Martin Amis Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim NYT review of Money that coins the phrase "The New Unpleasantness" Germaine Greer interview with Amis Our episodes on connected books: Vile Bodies, Day of the Locust and (maybe?) Bicameral Mind Martin Amis' review of Bowie in 1973 What Are We Reading? Greg: Maybe the People Would be the Times by Lucy Sante LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin Downtown by Pete Hamill Secret Identity by Alex Segura Kristianne: *Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (progress... it'll be awhile...) Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes

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 Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom (or something like that) a intensely jaded look at the first couple decades of rock music from legendary writer Nik Cohn. 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 Our episode on Teenage by Jon Savage Arfur by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Tommy, and super expensive) I Am The Still the Greatest, Says Johnny Angelo by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Ziggy Stardust?) Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night (the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever - and somewhat made up) Rock Dreams by Nik Cohn and Guy Peellaert Nik Cohn is nice to Bowie - and mean to the Rolling Stones What Are We Reading? Greg: Devil House by John Darnielle Dracula Cha Cha Cha by Kim Newman The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber and Wengrow Kristianne Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Money - Martin Amis

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 Homer Tarantino's gory classic of bromanticism - The Iliad 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 We read different translations of this here gruesome volume - Kristianne had the Robert Fagles and Greg read the Carolyn Alexander Want to understand the Iliad? This is the only infographic you need The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker The War that Killed Achilles by Carolyn Alexander Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson Our ridiculous episode about The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Shakespeare's Second Best Bet The Myths and Legends Podcast Christa Wolf's book on Cassandra that we should've read! What Are We Reading? (That Isn't Related to the Iliad) Greg: Devil House by John Darnielle (also Wolf in White Van and Universal Harvester) What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn