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 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

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!