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 * Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, a novel of deception, doublecross, and people being absolute fucksters to each other. 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 Handmaiden - movie version of Fingersmith by cue ChatGPT Park Chan-Wook London Labor and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew What Are We Reading? Greg: Spring by Ali Smith Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna Kristianne: Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman

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 White Noise by Don DeLillo, a very funny, very timely book about death, among other concerns. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter (nah). 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 movie version of White Noise article on the train derailment in Ohio NYT magazine article on White Noise - the movie Spectator article on White Noise and the interwebs Heathen revisted What Are We Reading? Greg: Libra by Don DeLillo Underworld by Don D (but I'm unlikely to finish it before we start Fingersmith) Ducks Kristianne: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (May) How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

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 doorstop of a history of the Russian Revolution: Orlando Figes' "A People's Tragedy".

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. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter 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 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

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 In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner - an eccentric polymath, kind of like a certain David Jones we all know. Plus, T.S. Eliot impersonations! Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter - sort of? - we're also bookclub@mastadon.social too! 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 Adam Gopnik's postscript on Steiner in the New Yorker "Our Steiner Problem, and Mine" by Lee Siegel The T.S. Eliot Lecture Series Hex Enduction Records and Books - Seattle's best record n' book store. Irving Howe didn't like these Magic and Loss - The Internet as Art The Book Exchange in Missoula What Are We Reading? Greg: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Kristianne: Square Eyes by Anna Mill and Luke Jones The Unwritten Book by Samantha Hunt What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders - Lawrence Weschler

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 Room at the Top by John Braine, about an angry young man in a dirty old town. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter 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 Life at the Top - the sequel! Man at the Top - the BBC sequel (to the sequel?) Simone Signoret Graywolf Press The Dorothy Project Chris O'Leary's Patreon Bluebeard - it was actually a mouse, not a cat! What Are We Reading? Greg: American Midnight edited by Laird Hunt Hand Drying in America by Ben Katchor Master of the Senate by Robert Caro Kristianne: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà purchased at Symposium Books! Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik Subdivision by J Robert Lennon bought at Exile in Bookville The Wild Hunt - by Emma Seckel What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next In Bluebeard's Castle - George Steiner

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 On the Road by everyone's high school boyfriend, Jack Kerouac. We also talk about the new Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream which we just saw IN A MOVIE THEATRE shudder! Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter 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 Joyce Johnson's article on Kerouac and Robert Frank Hal Chase/Chad King Slate Star Codex review NYT article about Moonage Daydream What Are We Reading? Greg: Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald Kristianne: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary (and the amazing movie starring Alec Guinness) What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Room at the Top - John Braine

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 Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, a slow, stately book about a very hot island. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter 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 movie version of The Leopard The Last Leopard - biography of Guisippe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour Guardian article on Lampedusa and Machievelli NYT article on the 50th anniversary of the book Here's the trailer for Moonage Daydream What Are We Reading? Greg: The Dancing Plague by Gareth Fellowes A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman A Year with Swollen Appendages by Brian Eno Kristianne: The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova What Song Did We Choose? In Italian! What's Up Next On the Road - Jacky Kerouac

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 Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard - a play where a lot happens just off stage and there's a lot of talking about thinking.

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 In Between the Sheets, a kind-of-sort-of creepy book of short stories by Ian McEwan. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter 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 NY Times review of In Between the Sheets - spoiler: didn't like. The Czar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor LA Weekly article on Bowie in L.A. Pushing ahead of the Dame on Scary Monsters What Are We Reading? Greg: Brain Bats from Venus by Greg Sadowski Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler Kristianne: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu The Heroine with 1000 Faces by Maria Tatar How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelman What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard