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 took a little wander through Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall and read about a lot of saints with swords (sometimes stuck in their heads) 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 James Hall's obituary in the Guardian Article about the first English dictionaries Mountweazel! The random paintings we attempted to decipher. Our episode about David Bomberg. We didn't talk about it, but here's Nick Cave's handwritten dictionary h/t to Austin Kleon's excellent recent blog post on dictionaries What Are We Reading? Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner Bleak House by Charlie Dickens (as always) Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

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 attemped to cobble together a plan to read Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall 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 Ok, here's the plan for reading through this crazy dictionary: Take a look at the 3 paintings below (selected in a completely scientific and statistically significant way) and make your guess as to the subject of the painting, using the dictionary as your guide. Greg and Kristianne will take a random walk through the dictionary, using elements of Francis Bacon's paintings as a starting point. If you need other stimuli, then we also mentioned: Dictionary of the Khazars The Greatest Video on the Internet, if you like Orson Welles, or even if you don't What's Up Next Join us here around about the 18th of April as we discuss our highly academic and rigorously researched findings! Can you guess the subject and/or title of these paintings?

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 Interviews with Francis Bacon, a beautifully constructed cut and paste job from the noted art critic David Sylvester. 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 Kitty Hauser's This Is Bacon the Start the Week podcast Our episode on the Life and Times of Little Richard Our episode on the Waste Land Pushing Ahead of the Dame on "Sound and Vision" What Song Did We Choose? What Else Are We Reading? Greg will be reading Bleak House and Gormenghast for the rest of eternity. Kristianne is reading Girls Against God which is having some...strange...effects on her, as well as No One Is Talking About This by Twitter's one and only champion Patricia Lockwood and Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. What's Up Next Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a jazzy tale of the very American art of self-invention. 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 BBC article - "The World's Most Misunderstood Book" Ole Mel Bragg's "In Our Time" podcast episode on Gatsby Our episode on Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason interview about the origins of 'Nick' - here's the novel at bookshop.org an excerpt in the Paris Review from Wesley Morris' new introduction to Gatsby. Greil Marcus on Gatsby Jesymn Ward on Gatsby Gatsby, Liberace and Bowie Our episode on The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind What Else Did We Read This Month? Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Gormenghast Trilogy by Melvyn Peake The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

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 Mystery Train, Griel Marcus' expansive summation of rock music as American culture. Apologies for the weird clicking noise that sounds like its coming from Greg's mandibles (he forgot to wax them) - we'll have the audio hiccups fixed for next time! Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff We Mentioned Greil Marcus' books on bookshop.org Elliot Bay Book Company in Seattle Magus Books in Seattle Our episode on Sweet Soul Music Our episode on Sound of the City David Cantwell's New Yorker article on Greil Marcus Rolling Stone article on Mystery Train KEXP Books going into the public domain in 2021 Great Gatsby episode on the In Our Time podcast What Else We're Reading A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Bleak House by Chuckie Dickens The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Girls Against God by Jenny Hval What's Up Next The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald What Song Did We Chose? Bonus! Our Mystery Train playlist The infamous Mazatlan agenda found in Kristianne’s copy!

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 chose our books for 2021, in the great outdoors, and in our typical shambolic fashion! Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Our 2021 Books Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo English Journey by J.B. Priestley Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh The Stranger by Albert Camus On Having No Head by Douglass Harding The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1984 Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders What's Up Next We'll be talking about Mystery Train by Greil Marcus later this month

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 Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, a memoir of one incredibly strong woman's survival in Stalin's Reign of Terror. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned The much harder to find second installment of Ginzburg's memoir. The recent NY Times article about this area of Siberia and how climate change is affecting it so many articles about Bowie's trans-Siberian trip here's the fancy way to travel by train across Siberian these days. Our episode on the very real and not fake Communist comic book Octobriana Pushing Ahead of the Dame on Wild is the Wind Our Favorite 2020 Books We both agreed that that The Street was our favorite Bowie Book of the year - check out our episode on it. We also agreed that Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was in our top list. Other than that (in no order): Kristianne Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Bodies and The Mirror and the Light Girl, Woman, Other Their Eyes Were Watching God These Truths Greg Deacon King Kong The Overstory The Yellow House Hamnet Washington Black The Essex Serpent - the author also wrote Melmoth, which we couldn't remember despite our best efforts. What's Up Next Mystery Train by Greil Marcus What Song Did We Choose? and maybe, just for the holiday season:

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 Street by Ann Petry, a harsh but gripping tale, which **almost** led to the worst song choice in the history of this 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 People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, who's not really down with the SYSTEM, MAAAAAAN. (And apologies for the audio issues at the end - it's the Man trying to keep us down!) Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Kirkus Review of A People's History The amazing These Truths by Jill Lepore An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross Studs Terkel's oral histories: Working and The Good War McNally Jackson Books - buy books from your local bookstore!! TruthOut - alternate news source Kristianne read Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo this month Greg read (and loved) The Good Lord Bird by James McBride this month, who also wrote Deacon King Kong, which Greg read (and loved) earlier this year. What's Up Next The Street by Ann Petry What Song Did We Choose? and here's notes on Bowie's record "Reality" from our bible - Pushing Ahead of the Dame

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 Teenage by Jon Savage and you JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE'RE FEELING ABOUT IT OK? /slams bedroom door/