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 Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, a memoir of one incredibly strong woman's survival in Stalin's Reign of Terror. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned The much harder to find second installment of Ginzburg's memoir. The recent NY Times article about this area of Siberia and how climate change is affecting it so many articles about Bowie's trans-Siberian trip here's the fancy way to travel by train across Siberian these days. Our episode on the very real and not fake Communist comic book Octobriana Pushing Ahead of the Dame on Wild is the Wind Our Favorite 2020 Books We both agreed that that The Street was our favorite Bowie Book of the year - check out our episode on it. We also agreed that Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was in our top list. Other than that (in no order): Kristianne Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Bodies and The Mirror and the Light Girl, Woman, Other Their Eyes Were Watching God These Truths Greg Deacon King Kong The Overstory The Yellow House Hamnet Washington Black The Essex Serpent - the author also wrote Melmoth, which we couldn't remember despite our best efforts. What's Up Next Mystery Train by Greil Marcus What Song Did We Choose? and maybe, just for the holiday season:

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 Street by Ann Petry, a harsh but gripping tale, which **almost** led to the worst song choice in the history of this 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 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, who's not really down with the SYSTEM, MAAAAAAN. (And apologies for the audio issues at the end - it's the Man trying to keep us down!) Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Kirkus Review of A People's History The amazing These Truths by Jill Lepore An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross Studs Terkel's oral histories: Working and The Good War McNally Jackson Books - buy books from your local bookstore!! TruthOut - alternate news source Kristianne read Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo this month Greg read (and loved) The Good Lord Bird by James McBride this month, who also wrote Deacon King Kong, which Greg read (and loved) earlier this year. What's Up Next The Street by Ann Petry What Song Did We Choose? and here's notes on Bowie's record "Reality" from our bible - Pushing Ahead of the Dame

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 Teenage by Jon Savage and you JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE'RE FEELING ABOUT IT OK? /slams bedroom door/

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 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, which is really not like Dead Poets Society at all. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Never Apologize, Never Explain - Guardian article about the book by James Woods. England's Dreaming by Jon Savage - not Lipstick Traces which is by Greil Marcus Red Emma's bookstore in Baltimore Chris O'Leary (of Pushing Ahead of the Damefame) has great writing up on his Patreon Greg read Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Kristianne read (or listened to) The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Kristianne also read Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg What's Up Next Teenage by Jon Savage What Song Did We Choose?

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 Black Boy, Richard Wright's searing story of growing up in the Jim Crow south and his further self-education as a young man in Chicago and his further self-education as a young man in Chicago.

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 Life and Times of Little Richard - the Authorized Biography by Charles "Dr. Rock" White, which contains lots of scatalogical pranks, sermons and stories of debauchery from one of the wildest voices ever. Rock and roll.

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 Sexual Personae by Camillia Paglia, which left us feeling a bit...cthonic. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson Bacchus by Eddie Campbell Monstress comics series Bowie's workflow for The Next Day Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg The Case of the Missing Men What's Up Next The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White What Song Did We Choose? Camille meets Kristianne!

The last known photo of the great poet. 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 Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, and tried to talk about anything else beside the poem (and you know...that other thing that's going on). Apologies again for the recording weirdness! We're such a bunch of fireworms (that'll make more sense after you listen to this one). We'll get it together at some point. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned From Ritual to Romance How the Wasteland Sounds Now We didn't mention this (Greg spaced), but the British library has a cool webpage about the influences on The Waste Land. The source of the whole green face powder thing - an article about "Low" and T.S. Eliots influences. TS Eliot, midfield enforcer, tamed by marriage TS Eliot was a bad boyfriend William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver Post-Colonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio Degrees of Grey in Phillipsburg by Richard Hugo The Hugo House in Seattle The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley Did Bowie Pinch a Cactus from T.S. Eliot? - well, did he? How to Do Nothing OMG, Alec Guiness is the best What's Up Next Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia What Song Did We Choose?

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 McTeague by Frank Norris, which is surprisingly not about a rogue cop who's always getting kicked off the force and reinstated because he's just too damn good out on those streets. Apologies for the sound quality - we're still figuring out how to do this whole remote thing!