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 a wide-ranging screed on the intellectual wasteland of current American culture - Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason. And Greg reveals his ignorance of fairly recent presidential elections. Fun! #tuesdaygoths Buy This Months Book at Bookshop Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Roderick's Chamber Telling Lies The Bloody Mary Incident PC Jr Max Headroom Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstader Educated popped collars In the Land of Self Defeat Why We're Polarized These Truths 1619 Project Elliot Bay Book Company Holy Blood, Holy Grail Foucault's Pendulum Master and Commander F&W Classical Music James Michener We didn't mention it, but the James Michener Art Museum is pretty rad Our Herzog episode Lori Goldston - the greatest, seriously. The Yellow House Inland What's Up Next McTeague!! - you're off the force!! 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 Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West, a grim fable of the darker side of Hollywood in the 30's - and reveal our books for 2020! Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned The 1975 Movie Version Advice to the Lovelorn - the "adaption" of Miss Lonelyhearts The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black Bowie's Berlin Books - we reviewed Berlin Alexanderplatz and Mr Norris Changes Trains last year. And don't forget - let's bring back "phooey!" in 2020! Our 2020 Book List Chosen at the great Cafe Racer in Seattle The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby McTeague by Frank Norris Cats by T.S. Eliot (just kidding - it's The Waste Land) Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia Black Boy by Richard Wright The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Teenage by Jon Savage The Street by Ann Petry A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White Mystery Train by Greil Marcus What's Up Next The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby 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 The Bird Artist by Howard Norman, a tale from the frosty realm of Newfoundland, where women are women and men are mopey. The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned The lighthouse at Witless Bay Phillip (not Thomas) Marlowe The Ghost Clause - Howard Norman's latest book. Bowie's visit to Labrador Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller Davidson Galleries in Seattle Loganberry Books in Cleveland Our book lists for the decade Book lists are really hard to put together - this from books that we read over the last decade (not necessarily books that came out in the last 10 years). Greg Fun Home by Alison Bechdel The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner Cruddy by Lynda Barry Kristianne Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg The Faraway Nearby by Rachel Solnit The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris What's Up Next Day of the Locust by Nathanael West Amazon | IndieBound 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 The Insult by Rupert Thomson, a book about pyschosis and the seedy underbelly of society that turns out to be two books in one, much to Greg's chagrin. The Insult by Rupert Thomson Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Never Anyone But You Author Interview in the Guardian The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Alnilam by James Dickey Overstory by Richard Powers Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake How I Ended Up On Bowie's Must Read List @bowiesongs on "I'm Deranged". Also check out Chris' new Patreon! Lost Highway Hex Enduction Books and Records in Seattle What's Up Next The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Amazon | IndieBound 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 Dante's Inferno, which has been inspring haunted hayrides for centuries. Happy Halloween! Inferno by Dante Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Vittorio Gassman reading Canto XXI This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Gustav Dore Illustrations for The Divine Comedy The Twilight Zone Virgil What Dreams May Come) Ozzy's Slippers Set Model for Diamond Dogs tour Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo” by Ary Scheffer Rodin RODAN also Rodan, one of Greg's favorite bands ever Mystery Plays Fratello Metallo - Misteri @bowiesongs on Heathen Never Anyone But You What's Up Next The Insult by Rupert Thomson Amazon | IndieBound 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 The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens, a book-length legal argument that helpfully reminded us of our ignorance of history. The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Amazon | IndieBound Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Kissinger Peace Prize?? It's true! Hitchens' book on Bill Clinton - No One Left to Lie To Hitchens' takedown of Mother Theresa - The Missionary Position The Satanic Verses controversy Hitch-22 (Hitchen's autobiography) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Politico article about the lessons National Security Advisers can learn from Kissinger What's Up Next Inferno by Dante Amazon | IndieBound 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 a book that WE REALLY REALLY LIKED - Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS | Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Twitter Facebook Instagram Web Presence Stuff we Mentioned Angela Carter is best known for her collection of stories The Bloody Chamber Company of Wolves (film) Magic Toy Shop (film) Angela Carter's BBC Radio plays Sarah Waters on reading Nights at the Circus the picaresque genre of fiction Heartbreak Soup What's Up Next Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Amazon | IndieBound What Song Did We Choose?

This time we read Kafka Was the Rage - Anatole Broyard's unfinished memoir of life in Greenwich Village just after WWII, where everyone was an intellectual and sex had just been discovered.

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 Metropolitan Life by Fran (not Annie) Lebowitz, a snarky little collection of vignettes about life in the big city way back when.

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 really weird D & D manual called Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual by Éliphas Lévi, half-poet, half-socialist, and all beard.