Bowie Book Club Podcast Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
Apr 26, 2021
30:09
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)
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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