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 Dante's Inferno, which has been inspring haunted hayrides for centuries. Happy Halloween! Inferno by Dante Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Vittorio Gassman reading Canto XXI This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Gustav Dore Illustrations for The Divine Comedy The Twilight Zone Virgil What Dreams May Come) Ozzy's Slippers Set Model for Diamond Dogs tour Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo” by Ary Scheffer Rodin RODAN also Rodan, one of Greg's favorite bands ever Mystery Plays Fratello Metallo - Misteri @bowiesongs on Heathen Never Anyone But You What's Up Next The Insult by Rupert Thomson 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 Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens, a book-length legal argument that helpfully reminded us of our ignorance of history. The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Kissinger Peace Prize?? It's true! Hitchens' book on Bill Clinton - No One Left to Lie To Hitchens' takedown of Mother Theresa - The Missionary Position The Satanic Verses controversy Hitch-22 (Hitchen's autobiography) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Politico article about the lessons National Security Advisers can learn from Kissinger What's Up Next Inferno by Dante 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 a book that WE REALLY REALLY LIKED - Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Angela Carter is best known for her collection of stories The Bloody Chamber Company of Wolves (film) Magic Toy Shop (film) Angela Carter's BBC Radio plays Sarah Waters on reading Nights at the Circus the picaresque genre of fiction Heartbreak Soup What's Up Next Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Amazon | IndieBound What Song Did We Choose?

This time we read Kafka Was the Rage - Anatole Broyard's unfinished memoir of life in Greenwich Village just after WWII, where everyone was an intellectual and sex had just been discovered.

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 Metropolitan Life by Fran (not Annie) Lebowitz, a snarky little collection of vignettes about life in the big city way back when.

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 really weird D & D manual called Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual by Éliphas Lévi, half-poet, half-socialist, and all beard.

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 Sound of the City by musicologist and BBC DJ Charlie Gillett, a veritable bible for pop music nerds. Spoiler alert: Greg does not sing in this one (or any one, ever).

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 episode, we chat about what we've been reading besides the book we're supposed to be reading. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned The Archies with their hit song Sugar Sugar Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson's new-ish Jughead series Zombie Archie Coin - Op Comics Ghost World Is This How You See Me? by Jaime Hernandez Palomar by Gibert Hernandez Black Leopard, Red Wolf Room to Dream - a sort of autobiography of David Lynch Catching the Big Fish Dune Feast Your Eyes What's Up Next Sound of the City by Charlie Gillett Amazon | IndieBound New book club member Maggie the Dog is not impressed.

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 Silence by John Cage, an intensely charming (though sometimes confusing!) book about music theory (sort of) and mushroom hunting (definitely) Our guest is Mark Schlipper - experimental/improv musician (and Moon Knight aficionado) whose current projects include drone rockers The Luna Moth, improv stoner-doom-noise-mininmalism Perish The Island, and various other other solo projects. Support your local library! Like seriously. Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Video of John Cage performing Water Walk American Masters documentary on John Cage Simple Men - movie by Hal Hartley Super Troopers - maybe the greatest movie of all time, depending on your definition of comedy. As Slow as Possible - this Cage piece is currently being performed in Halberstadt, Germany and is scheduled to complete in 2640. Black Mountain College John Cage - Lecture on the Weather Video Performance of 4'33" Cage's love letters to Merce Cunningham Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic The Good Shepherd Center Chapel Performance Space - the home for experimental music in Seattle. Erik Satie - Vexations John Cale Brian Eno Terry Riley - In C Uncut Article about the Low Sessions Spike Jones Boots n' Cats What's Up Next Sound of the City by Charlie Gillett 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 is another gossipy episode with a little bit about the tome we're about to read - Silence by John Cage