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 sat in a cafe, drinking free refill after free refill, perfected our looks of total ennui and read The Stranger by Albert Camus. 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 Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus Looking for the Stranger by Alice Kaplan The Mersault Investigations An article about the Stranger in the New Republic An article about Camus in the New Yorker Another New Yorker article about the first word of The Stranger What's in a title - an article about the title of the Stranger in the Guardian The book that ties the whole list together The absurd in Bowie's world My hovercraft is full of eels What Are We Reading? Greg The Book of Night Women by Marlon James and finally done with Black Leopard, Red Wolf! The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner and Telex from Cuba too. The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash The Sheltering Sky by Paulieboy Bowles Kristianne Black Hole by Charles Burns How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Loop by Brenda Lozaro What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next On Having No Head by Douglass Harding

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 Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, a careening comic novel of doomed romance, never ending parties, and rotating gossip columnists. 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 PBS series of Brideshead Revisited His first novel, Decline and Fall The movie version: Bright Young Things The Bowie Bookshelf What Are We Reading? Greg: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - as always. Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner Centilogal 2020 by Levi Fuller Kristianne: Devil in the White City My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next The Stranger by Albert Camus 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 English Journey by J.B. Priestley, a gripping tale of a grump making his way around England in the dour `30s. 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 This is the Folio Society edition of the book that we both read. Down and Out In Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier by Priestly's arch-nemesis (maybe?) George Orwell. A BBC4 presentation on Priestly's "Postscripts" - his radio addresses during WWII. An English Journey, Reimagined, part 1 with Alan Moore and Ian Sinclair. And we totally spaced on this, but the super nice @travelswbrindle interviewed us for an article about the Bowie list for Early Bird Books. Thanks Chelsea! What Are We Reading? Greg: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - still! And some of Ulysses and Ulysses Annotated for Bloomsday! Kristianne: Red Island House by Andrea Lee and Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

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 book (though probably not the right book) about the incredibly prolific Japanese artist and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo. 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 Maybe this was the book we were supposed to read? Article on Yokoo's album cover designs Article on the mural he's working on with his daughter. Tadanori Yokoo's website Greg hearts Gary Panter who hearts Tadanori Yokoo. Kristianne wasn't kidding about National Goth Day And she was right about the name of the butoh movie - it was Cherry Blossoms)! Photographer Mick Rock captured Bowie in kabuki mode MOMA has a great selection of Yokoo's work on their website What Are We Reading? Matrix by Lauren Groff Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next English Journey by J.B. Priestley

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) 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 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 What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

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 attemped to cobble together a plan to read Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall 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 Ok, here's the plan for reading through this crazy dictionary: Take a look at the 3 paintings below (selected in a completely scientific and statistically significant way) and make your guess as to the subject of the painting, using the dictionary as your guide. Greg and Kristianne will take a random walk through the dictionary, using elements of Francis Bacon's paintings as a starting point. If you need other stimuli, then we also mentioned: Dictionary of the Khazars The Greatest Video on the Internet, if you like Orson Welles, or even if you don't What's Up Next Join us here around about the 18th of April as we discuss our highly academic and rigorously researched findings! Can you guess the subject and/or title of these paintings?

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 Interviews with Francis Bacon, a beautifully constructed cut and paste job from the noted art critic David Sylvester. 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 Kitty Hauser's This Is Bacon the Start the Week podcast Our episode on the Life and Times of Little Richard Our episode on the Waste Land Pushing Ahead of the Dame on "Sound and Vision" What Song Did We Choose? What Else Are We Reading? Greg will be reading Bleak House and Gormenghast for the rest of eternity. Kristianne is reading Girls Against God which is having some...strange...effects on her, as well as No One Is Talking About This by Twitter's one and only champion Patricia Lockwood and Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. What's Up Next Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a jazzy tale of the very American art of self-invention. 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 BBC article - "The World's Most Misunderstood Book" Ole Mel Bragg's "In Our Time" podcast episode on Gatsby Our episode on Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason interview about the origins of 'Nick' - here's the novel at bookshop.org an excerpt in the Paris Review from Wesley Morris' new introduction to Gatsby. Greil Marcus on Gatsby Jesymn Ward on Gatsby Gatsby, Liberace and Bowie Our episode on The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind What Else Did We Read This Month? Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Gormenghast Trilogy by Melvyn Peake The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry What Song Did We Choose? What's Up Next Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

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 Mystery Train, Griel Marcus' expansive summation of rock music as American culture. Apologies for the weird clicking noise that sounds like its coming from Greg's mandibles (he forgot to wax them) - we'll have the audio hiccups fixed for next time! Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff We Mentioned Greil Marcus' books on bookshop.org Elliot Bay Book Company in Seattle Magus Books in Seattle Our episode on Sweet Soul Music Our episode on Sound of the City David Cantwell's New Yorker article on Greil Marcus Rolling Stone article on Mystery Train KEXP Books going into the public domain in 2021 Great Gatsby episode on the In Our Time podcast What Else We're Reading A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Bleak House by Chuckie Dickens The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Girls Against God by Jenny Hval What's Up Next The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald What Song Did We Chose? Bonus! Our Mystery Train playlist The infamous Mazatlan agenda found in Kristianne’s copy!

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 chose our books for 2021, in the great outdoors, and in our typical shambolic fashion! Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Our 2021 Books Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo English Journey by J.B. Priestley Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh The Stranger by Albert Camus On Having No Head by Douglass Harding The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1984 Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders What's Up Next We'll be talking about Mystery Train by Greil Marcus later this month