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 a series of connected stories circling the post-beat, pre-hippie world of Lower Mahattan in Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders. Join us for a hour or two at the Total Assault Cantina! 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 Peace Eye Bookstore Herb Caen Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side Our episode on Peking Story Our episode on Kafka was the Rage The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (Greg cannot resist the opportunity to plug this book) What Are We Reading? Greg: A Year With Swollen Appendanges by Brian Eno The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson Kristianne: Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd Hell of A Book by Jason Mott What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next The Iliad - Homer, but not THAT Homer

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. We survived another year, and that means we get to dust off the ole Choosenator and see what new books it brings us. This time we had a little canine assistance - our trusty guide led us through the wilds of Seattle (ok, through quiet residential neighborhoods) and pointed us at the correct numbers for the books for 2022! 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!) Our 2022 Books The Iliad - Homer Simpson Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn Money - Martin Amis Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard The Leopard - Giusseppe Di Lampedusa Room at the Top - John Braine On the Road - Jacky Kerouac In Bluebeard's Castle - George Steiner Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders - Lawrence Weschler A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes Our 2021 Favorites Kristianne: The Enchanted Tale for the Time Being The Anthropocene Review and The Book of Delights Piranesi Greg: A Little Devil in America Gormenghast Tadanori Yokoo Piranesi The Dakota Winters and The Perfume Burned His Eyes Other Stuff Kristanne listened to House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door while walking her dog. Greg couldn't remember that Sir Derek Jacobi read the audio version of Hawksmoor - here's our episode about that book Buy records and books from Hex Enduction Records and Books in Lake City, Seattle. Even if you're not in Seattle, they have a giant Discogs page - they're good folks with good stuff! Coming Up We'll start things off next month with a relatively new, very modern tome - The Iliad. See y'all 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 George Orwell's classic work of numerology, 1984.

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 Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf, a melancholy elegy that really got on the wrong side of the East German censors, for some reason. 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 Christa Wolf's first book Divided Heaven Mister T What Are We Reading? Kristianne: The Enchanted by Rene Denfield The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune Greg: The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Anno Dracula by Kim Newman All the Marvels by Douglas Wolk What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next 1984

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 Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, one of our favorites on the list - a fairy tale that careens through the Moscow of the 1920's, and is otherwise impossible to describe accurately. In the spirit of inaccuracy, Greg got several names and facts wrong in this episodes, which he blames on g-g-g-g-ghosts. 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 Soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death - record by James Blackshaw (Greg got the name wrong) Love Is The Nessage, The Message Is Death - video installation by Arthur Jafa (Greg got the name wrong here too) What Are We Reading? Kristianne: Bewilderment by Richard Powers All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki Camille by Sheridan LeFanu Greg: Book of Night Women by Marlon James Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr (pseudonym for Alice Sheldon - Greg got her story wrong too!) The Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker, edited by Leslie Klinger A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles What Song Did We Choose? Greg won the coin toss, so here's the SKELETON DANCE! What's Up Next The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf

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 Having No Head by Douglas Harding, a slender guidebook to quick and painless enlightenment.

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 sat in a cafe, drinking free refill after free refill, perfected our looks of total ennui and read The Stranger by Albert Camus. 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 Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus Looking for the Stranger by Alice Kaplan The Mersault Investigations An article about the Stranger in the New Republic An article about Camus in the New Yorker Another New Yorker article about the first word of The Stranger What's in a title - an article about the title of the Stranger in the Guardian The book that ties the whole list together The absurd in Bowie's world My hovercraft is full of eels What Are We Reading? Greg The Book of Night Women by Marlon James and finally done with Black Leopard, Red Wolf! The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner and Telex from Cuba too. The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash The Sheltering Sky by Paulieboy Bowles Kristianne Black Hole by Charles Burns How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Loop by Brenda Lozaro What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next On Having No Head by Douglass Harding

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 Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, a careening comic novel of doomed romance, never ending parties, and rotating gossip columnists. 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 PBS series of Brideshead Revisited His first novel, Decline and Fall The movie version: Bright Young Things The Bowie Bookshelf What Are We Reading? Greg: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - as always. Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner Centilogal 2020 by Levi Fuller Kristianne: Devil in the White City My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next The Stranger by Albert Camus 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. This time we read English Journey by J.B. Priestley, a gripping tale of a grump making his way around England in the dour `30s. 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 This is the Folio Society edition of the book that we both read. Down and Out In Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier by Priestly's arch-nemesis (maybe?) George Orwell. A BBC4 presentation on Priestly's "Postscripts" - his radio addresses during WWII. An English Journey, Reimagined, part 1 with Alan Moore and Ian Sinclair. And we totally spaced on this, but the super nice @travelswbrindle interviewed us for an article about the Bowie list for Early Bird Books. Thanks Chelsea! What Are We Reading? Greg: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - still! And some of Ulysses and Ulysses Annotated for Bloomsday! Kristianne: Red Island House by Andrea Lee and Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

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 book (though probably not the right book) about the incredibly prolific Japanese artist and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo. 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 Maybe this was the book we were supposed to read? Article on Yokoo's album cover designs Article on the mural he's working on with his daughter. Tadanori Yokoo's website Greg hearts Gary Panter who hearts Tadanori Yokoo. Kristianne wasn't kidding about National Goth Day And she was right about the name of the butoh movie - it was Cherry Blossoms)! Photographer Mick Rock captured Bowie in kabuki mode MOMA has a great selection of Yokoo's work on their website What Are We Reading? Matrix by Lauren Groff Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next English Journey by J.B. Priestley