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 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, which is really not like Dead Poets Society at all. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Never Apologize, Never Explain - Guardian article about the book by James Woods. England's Dreaming by Jon Savage - not Lipstick Traces which is by Greil Marcus Red Emma's bookstore in Baltimore Chris O'Leary (of Pushing Ahead of the Damefame) has great writing up on his Patreon Greg read Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Kristianne read (or listened to) The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Kristianne also read Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg What's Up Next Teenage by Jon Savage What Song Did We Choose?

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 Black Boy, Richard Wright's searing story of growing up in the Jim Crow south and his further self-education as a young man in Chicago and his further self-education as a young man in Chicago.

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 Life and Times of Little Richard - the Authorized Biography by Charles "Dr. Rock" White, which contains lots of scatalogical pranks, sermons and stories of debauchery from one of the wildest voices ever. Rock and roll.

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 Sexual Personae by Camillia Paglia, which left us feeling a bit...cthonic. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson Bacchus by Eddie Campbell Monstress comics series Bowie's workflow for The Next Day Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg The Case of the Missing Men What's Up Next The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White What Song Did We Choose? Camille meets Kristianne!

The last known photo of the great poet. 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 Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, and tried to talk about anything else beside the poem (and you know...that other thing that's going on). Apologies again for the recording weirdness! We're such a bunch of fireworms (that'll make more sense after you listen to this one). We'll get it together at some point. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned From Ritual to Romance How the Wasteland Sounds Now We didn't mention this (Greg spaced), but the British library has a cool webpage about the influences on The Waste Land. The source of the whole green face powder thing - an article about "Low" and T.S. Eliots influences. TS Eliot, midfield enforcer, tamed by marriage TS Eliot was a bad boyfriend William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver Post-Colonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio Degrees of Grey in Phillipsburg by Richard Hugo The Hugo House in Seattle The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley Did Bowie Pinch a Cactus from T.S. Eliot? - well, did he? How to Do Nothing OMG, Alec Guiness is the best What's Up Next Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia What Song Did We Choose?

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 McTeague by Frank Norris, which is surprisingly not about a rogue cop who's always getting kicked off the force and reinstated because he's just too damn good out on those streets. Apologies for the sound quality - we're still figuring out how to do this whole remote thing!

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 wide-ranging screed on the intellectual wasteland of current American culture - Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason. And Greg reveals his ignorance of fairly recent presidential elections. Fun! #tuesdaygoths Buy This Months Book at Bookshop Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Roderick's Chamber Telling Lies The Bloody Mary Incident PC Jr Max Headroom Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstader Educated popped collars In the Land of Self Defeat Why We're Polarized These Truths 1619 Project Elliot Bay Book Company Holy Blood, Holy Grail Foucault's Pendulum Master and Commander F&W Classical Music James Michener We didn't mention it, but the James Michener Art Museum is pretty rad Our Herzog episode Lori Goldston - the greatest, seriously. The Yellow House Inland What's Up Next McTeague!! - you're off the force!! What Song Did We Choose?

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 Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West, a grim fable of the darker side of Hollywood in the 30's - and reveal our books for 2020! Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned The 1975 Movie Version Advice to the Lovelorn - the "adaption" of Miss Lonelyhearts The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black Bowie's Berlin Books - we reviewed Berlin Alexanderplatz and Mr Norris Changes Trains last year. And don't forget - let's bring back "phooey!" in 2020! Our 2020 Book List Chosen at the great Cafe Racer in Seattle The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby McTeague by Frank Norris Cats by T.S. Eliot (just kidding - it's The Waste Land) Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia Black Boy by Richard Wright The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Teenage by Jon Savage The Street by Ann Petry A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White Mystery Train by Greil Marcus What's Up Next The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby What Song Did We Choose?

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 Bird Artist by Howard Norman, a tale from the frosty realm of Newfoundland, where women are women and men are mopey. The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned The lighthouse at Witless Bay Phillip (not Thomas) Marlowe The Ghost Clause - Howard Norman's latest book. Bowie's visit to Labrador Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller Davidson Galleries in Seattle Loganberry Books in Cleveland Our book lists for the decade Book lists are really hard to put together - this from books that we read over the last decade (not necessarily books that came out in the last 10 years). Greg Fun Home by Alison Bechdel The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner Cruddy by Lynda Barry Kristianne Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg The Faraway Nearby by Rachel Solnit The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris What's Up Next Day of the Locust by Nathanael West Amazon | IndieBound What Song Did We Choose?

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 Insult by Rupert Thomson, a book about pyschosis and the seedy underbelly of society that turns out to be two books in one, much to Greg's chagrin. The Insult by Rupert Thomson Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Never Anyone But You Author Interview in the Guardian The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Alnilam by James Dickey Overstory by Richard Powers Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake How I Ended Up On Bowie's Must Read List @bowiesongs on "I'm Deranged". Also check out Chris' new Patreon! Lost Highway Hex Enduction Books and Records in Seattle What's Up Next The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Amazon | IndieBound What Song Did We Choose?