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    Bowie Book Club Podcast

    Two friends have had a book club for a very very long time. It was mostly an excuse to drink and gossip. In January of 2016, they found renewed purpose in their sadness over the death of David Bowie. They decided to stop mucking around and actually get some reading done – from the list of books that he loved.

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    Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey Mar 25, 2024
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    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 Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey - interviews with foundational artists of soul music asthey deal with aging, and (in the case of Screaming Jay Hawkins) serve drinks out of a skull or something.

    Private Eye Feb 26, 2024
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    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 Private Eye, a half-serious, half-silly British political magazine that is the ultimate in IYKYK.

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    The list of books we'll be choosenating Season Two from are also up on Bookshop! If you have ideas of books we could add, let us know!

    Stuff We Talked About

    • Guardian article - "People trust Private Eye and what they read in it"

    • Private Eye: The First 50 Years

    • Maximum Rock and Roll

    • The Stranger - Seattle's Only Newspaper

    What Are We Reading (and when and where)?

    Greg:

    • Secret History by Donna Tartt (and the original Secret History by your boy Procopius!)
    • Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham
    • Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy edited by Alan Licht

    Kristianne:

    • Wolf in White Van by John Darinielle
    • The Chuckling Whatsit by Richard Sala
    • The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

    What Song Did We Choose?

    2nd place song!

    What's Up Next

    • Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey
    Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler Jan 22, 2024
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    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 Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, a tale of human pyschology under duress that makes a fitting end to the Russian books that Bowie had on his list.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Orwell's essay on Koestler and Darkness at Noon
    • The other "Russian" books on the list: A People's Tragedy, Master and Margarita, Into the Whirlwind, Coast of Utopia and (of course) Octobriana
    • Pushing Ahead of the Dame on the song we chose (through the Cranial Scalding method) - "What's Really Happening"

    What Are We Reading (and when and where)?

    Greg:

    • The Chuckling Whatsit by Richard Sala
    • Circe by Madeline Miller
    • Historia by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez et al (Greg managed to butcher both the name of the book and the author! Ugh)

    Kristianne:

    • Low Moon by JASON
    • Starling House by Alix Harrow
    • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    The last few of the Bowie list!

    • Private Eye - we're working on this next.
    • Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey
    • Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    • A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno (if we can find a copy we can afford!]

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    The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard Dec 18, 2023
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    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 Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, a quaint little preview of the non-stop psychological prodding we endure now.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Salon article on the book
    • article on Bowie's brief spell as an ad man in The Drum
    • our episode on A People's Tragedy

    What Are We Reading

    Greg:

    • The Pickwick Papers (of course!) by Charles Dickens
    • Rim of Morning by William Sloane
    • Gone to the Wolves by John Wray

    Kristianne:

    • The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
    • Julia by Sandra Newman

    Our Best of 2023!

    Greg:

    • Fingersmith in a 3-way split with White Noise and 42nd Parallel
    • Dreaming as Delerium by J. Allen Hobson
    • The House with a Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
    • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
    • The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

    Kristianne:

    • also Fingersmith!
    • How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
    • Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott
    • East of Eden by Johnny Steinbeck
    • Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

    Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto Nov 27, 2023
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    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 Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto - if you like art, philosophy and the philosophy of art, you might get through this a little easier than we did.

    Strange People by Frank Edwards Oct 30, 2023
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    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 Strange People a rundown of all the freaks, geeks and mentalists you'll ever want to encounter.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • The Weekly World News - "The World's Only Reliable News Source"
    • Nightmare Alley)
    • Strange Stories and Amazing Facts
    • David Bowie in New York documentary
    • The Three Arts bookstore
    • The Booksmith bookstore
    • The Poughkeepsie Seer
    • Brion Gysin
    • The Changing Light at Sandover - ok its not all Ouija, but it feels like it.

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
    • We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson
    • The Haunting of Hill House

    Kristianne:

    • Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson
    • The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

    What Song Did We Choose?

    Alternate song!

    What's Up Next

    Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto

    Writers at Work by the Paris Review Sep 25, 2023
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    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 Writers at Work: The First Series, a compendium of interviews with writers that proves to be as dazzling as a round of George Plimpton's Video Falconry.

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    Tell us what you think should be on Bowie's list that isn't!!

    Our Bookshop

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • The Paris Review: A CIA Front?
    • The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
    • George Plimpton's Video Falconry
    • The Kingdom and the Power by Gay Talese

    What Are We Reading (and when and where)

    Greg:

    • Funny Papers by Tom DeHaven
    • The House with a Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
    • The Librarianist by Patrick DeWitt

    Kristianne

    • Dead Mom's Club by Kate Spencer
    • The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke
    • Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    Strange People by Frank Edwards

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    Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr Aug 28, 2023
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    The Beano Jul 24, 2023
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    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. 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 Beano, a British comic that has been teaching the fundamentals of anarchy to the youth of the UK decades before Johnny Rotten gave his first snarl.

    The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos Jun 26, 2023
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    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 we read The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos, a big sweeping tale of America at the turn of the 20th century, including getting chased by a farmer with a shotgun, which happened all the time back then.

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