Bowie Book Club Podcast Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
Dec 19, 2022
48:30
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 Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders by Lawrence Weschler, a short, sharp treatise on a weird, weird museum.
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Stuff We Talked About
- Lawrence Weschler's Website
- The (very Jurassic) website for the Museum of Jurassic Technology
- The American Museum of Natural History in NYC
- Maryhill Museum
- The City Museum in St. Louis
- We didn't mention it, but Greg just read this NYRB article about an early, anatomically focused cabinet of wonderp
What Are We Reading?
Favorite Books of 2022!
Kristianne
- Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena or Mercury Pictures Presents - Anthony Marra (bonus: also author of The Tsar of Love and Techno )
- The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
- Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century - Kim Fu (I read 11 short story collections this year! Kelly Link, Ted Chiang, Rebecca Makkai, Sequoia Nagamatsu)
- The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Greg
- The Leopard (of course)
- Maybe the People Would be the Times and Low Life - Lucy Sante
- LaserWriter II - Tamara Shopsin
- Means of Ascent - Robert Caro
- Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
What Song Did We Choose?
and Dave rocking the pirate shirt on The Tonight Show:
What's Up Next
- A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes