Bowie Book Club Podcast

Dive into the intriguing world of Gustave Flaubert with a novel that blurs the lines of literary criticism and fiction. The hosts explore the deeper meanings behind Julian Barnes's portrayal of a retired doctor and his quest for understanding Flaubert's apparent avian enigma. They discuss the allure of authorial biographies, the pitfalls of academic analysis, and the central theme that fully knowing another person is an elusive pursuit. Plus, discover how Bowie's persona resonates with the book's themes and enjoy a soundtrack that captures its ambiguity.

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 Money by Martin Amis - the literary equivalent of watching someone fall down thousands of flights of stairs and wondering why you're laughing so hard. 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 Steve Martin interviews Martin Amis Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim NYT review of Money that coins the phrase "The New Unpleasantness" Germaine Greer interview with Amis Our episodes on connected books: Vile Bodies, Day of the Locust and (maybe?) Bicameral Mind Martin Amis' review of Bowie in 1973 What Are We Reading? Greg: Maybe the People Would be the Times by Lucy Sante LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin Downtown by Pete Hamill Secret Identity by Alex Segura Kristianne: *Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (progress... it'll be awhile...) Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes

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 Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom (or something like that) a intensely jaded look at the first couple decades of rock music from legendary writer Nik Cohn. 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 Our episode on Teenage by Jon Savage Arfur by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Tommy, and super expensive) I Am The Still the Greatest, Says Johnny Angelo by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Ziggy Stardust?) Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night (the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever - and somewhat made up) Rock Dreams by Nik Cohn and Guy Peellaert Nik Cohn is nice to Bowie - and mean to the Rolling Stones What Are We Reading? Greg: Devil House by John Darnielle Dracula Cha Cha Cha by Kim Newman The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber and Wengrow Kristianne Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Money - Martin Amis

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 Homer Tarantino's gory classic of bromanticism - The Iliad 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 We read different translations of this here gruesome volume - Kristianne had the Robert Fagles and Greg read the Carolyn Alexander Want to understand the Iliad? This is the only infographic you need The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker The War that Killed Achilles by Carolyn Alexander Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson Our ridiculous episode about The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Shakespeare's Second Best Bet The Myths and Legends Podcast Christa Wolf's book on Cassandra that we should've read! What Are We Reading? (That Isn't Related to the Iliad) Greg: Devil House by John Darnielle (also Wolf in White Van and Universal Harvester) What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn

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 series of connected stories circling the post-beat, pre-hippie world of Lower Mahattan in Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders. Join us for a hour or two at the Total Assault Cantina! 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 Peace Eye Bookstore Herb Caen Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side Our episode on Peking Story Our episode on Kafka was the Rage The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (Greg cannot resist the opportunity to plug this book) What Are We Reading? Greg: A Year With Swollen Appendanges by Brian Eno The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson Kristianne: Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd Hell of A Book by Jason Mott What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next The Iliad - Homer, but not THAT Homer

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. We survived another year, and that means we get to dust off the ole Choosenator and see what new books it brings us. This time we had a little canine assistance - our trusty guide led us through the wilds of Seattle (ok, through quiet residential neighborhoods) and pointed us at the correct numbers for the books for 2022! 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!) Our 2022 Books The Iliad - Homer Simpson Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn Money - Martin Amis Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard The Leopard - Giusseppe Di Lampedusa Room at the Top - John Braine On the Road - Jacky Kerouac In Bluebeard's Castle - George Steiner Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders - Lawrence Weschler A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes Our 2021 Favorites Kristianne: The Enchanted Tale for the Time Being The Anthropocene Review and The Book of Delights Piranesi Greg: A Little Devil in America Gormenghast Tadanori Yokoo Piranesi The Dakota Winters and The Perfume Burned His Eyes Other Stuff Kristanne listened to House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door while walking her dog. Greg couldn't remember that Sir Derek Jacobi read the audio version of Hawksmoor - here's our episode about that book Buy records and books from Hex Enduction Records and Books in Lake City, Seattle. Even if you're not in Seattle, they have a giant Discogs page - they're good folks with good stuff! Coming Up We'll start things off next month with a relatively new, very modern tome - The Iliad. See y'all 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 George Orwell's classic work of numerology, 1984.

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 Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf, a melancholy elegy that really got on the wrong side of the East German censors, for some reason. 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 Christa Wolf's first book Divided Heaven Mister T What Are We Reading? Kristianne: The Enchanted by Rene Denfield The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune Greg: The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Anno Dracula by Kim Newman All the Marvels by Douglas Wolk What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next 1984

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 Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, one of our favorites on the list - a fairy tale that careens through the Moscow of the 1920's, and is otherwise impossible to describe accurately. In the spirit of inaccuracy, Greg got several names and facts wrong in this episodes, which he blames on g-g-g-g-ghosts. 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 Soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death - record by James Blackshaw (Greg got the name wrong) Love Is The Nessage, The Message Is Death - video installation by Arthur Jafa (Greg got the name wrong here too) What Are We Reading? Kristianne: Bewilderment by Richard Powers All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki Camille by Sheridan LeFanu Greg: Book of Night Women by Marlon James Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr (pseudonym for Alice Sheldon - Greg got her story wrong too!) The Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker, edited by Leslie Klinger A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles What Song Did We Choose? Greg won the coin toss, so here's the SKELETON DANCE! What's Up Next The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf

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 Having No Head by Douglas Harding, a slender guidebook to quick and painless enlightenment.