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 Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, a tale of human pyschology under duress that makes a fitting end to the Russian books that Bowie had on his list. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon 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 Orwell's essay on Koestler and Darkness at Noon The other "Russian" books on the list: A People's Tragedy, Master and Margarita, Into the Whirlwind, Coast of Utopia and (of course) Octobriana Pushing Ahead of the Dame on the song we chose (through the Cranial Scalding method) - "What's Really Happening" What Are We Reading (and when and where)? Greg: The Chuckling Whatsit by Richard Sala Circe by Madeline Miller Historia by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez et al (Greg managed to butcher both the name of the book and the author! Ugh) Kristianne: Low Moon by JASON Starling House by Alix Harrow The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next The last few of the Bowie list! Private Eye - we're working on this next. Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno (if we can find a copy we can afford!] Permalink

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 Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, a quaint little preview of the non-stop psychological prodding we endure now. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon 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 Salon article on the book article on Bowie's brief spell as an ad man in The Drum our episode on A People's Tragedy What Are We Reading Greg: The Pickwick Papers (of course!) by Charles Dickens Rim of Morning by William Sloane Gone to the Wolves by John Wray Kristianne: The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr Julia by Sandra Newman Our Best of 2023! Greg: Fingersmith in a 3-way split with White Noise and 42nd Parallel Dreaming as Delerium by J. Allen Hobson The House with a Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Kristianne: also Fingersmith! How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott East of Eden by Johnny Steinbeck Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

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 Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto - if you like art, philosophy and the philosophy of art, you might get through this a little easier than we did.

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 Strange People a rundown of all the freaks, geeks and mentalists you'll ever want to encounter. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon 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 The Weekly World News - "The World's Only Reliable News Source" Nightmare Alley) Strange Stories and Amazing Facts David Bowie in New York documentary The Three Arts bookstore The Booksmith bookstore The Poughkeepsie Seer Brion Gysin The Changing Light at Sandover - ok its not all Ouija, but it feels like it. What Are We Reading? Greg: Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House Kristianne: Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi What Song Did We Choose? Alternate song! What's Up Next Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto

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 Writers at Work: The First Series, a compendium of interviews with writers that proves to be as dazzling as a round of George Plimpton's Video Falconry. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon Facebook Instagram Web Presence Tell us what you think should be on Bowie's list that isn't!! Our Bookshop Visit our lists on bookshop.org and help support the podcast (and independent bookstores too!) Stuff We Talked About The Paris Review: A CIA Front? The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen George Plimpton's Video Falconry The Kingdom and the Power by Gay Talese What Are We Reading (and when and where) Greg: Funny Papers by Tom DeHaven The House with a Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs The Librarianist by Patrick DeWitt Kristianne Dead Mom's Club by Kate Spencer The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Strange People by Frank Edwards Permalink

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. 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 Beano, a British comic that has been teaching the fundamentals of anarchy to the youth of the UK decades before Johnny Rotten gave his first snarl.

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 we read The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos, a big sweeping tale of America at the turn of the 20th century, including getting chased by a farmer with a shotgun, which happened all the time back then.

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 Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, which has all the bowels and loins anyone could ask for. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon 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 Geoffrey Robertson's article on the banning of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Phillip Larkin's mention of LCL What Are We Reading? Greg: Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis Cometbus and Love and Rockets The Serpent Coiled in Naples by Marius Kociejowski Kristianne: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune Night Vision by Mariana Alessandri What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passo

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 Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman - if you're a fan of gin n' ginger ale or of extremely stylized dialog, you're going to love this one.