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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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    Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence May 22, 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 Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, which has all the bowels and loins anyone could ask for.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Geoffrey Robertson's article on the banning of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

    • Phillip Larkin's mention of LCL

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
    • Cometbus and Love and Rockets
    • The Serpent Coiled in Naples by Marius Kociejowski

    Kristianne:

    • In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
    • Night Vision by Mariana Alessandri

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passo
    Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman Apr 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. This time we read Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman - if you're a fan of gin n' ginger ale or of extremely stylized dialog, you're going to love this one.

    Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Mar 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 * Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, a novel of deception, doublecross, and people being absolute fucksters to each other.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • The Handmaiden - movie version of Fingersmith by cue ChatGPT Park Chan-Wook
    • London Labor and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Spring by Ali Smith
    • Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna

    Kristianne:

    • Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart
    • The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
    • Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman
    White Noise by Don DeLillo Feb 20, 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 White Noise by Don DeLillo, a very funny, very timely book about death, among other concerns.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • The movie version of White Noise
    • article on the train derailment in Ohio
    • NYT magazine article on White Noise - the movie
    • Spectator article on White Noise and the interwebs
    • Heathen revisted

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Libra by Don DeLillo
    • Underworld by Don D (but I'm unlikely to finish it before we start Fingersmith)
    • Ducks

    Kristianne:

    • Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
    • Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (May)
    • How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
    A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes Jan 23, 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 a doorstop of a history of the Russian Revolution: Orlando Figes' "A People's Tragedy".

    Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler Dec 19, 2022
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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 Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders by Lawrence Weschler, a short, sharp treatise on a weird, weird museum.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Lawrence Weschler's Website
    • The (very Jurassic) website for the Museum of Jurassic Technology
    • The American Museum of Natural History in NYC
    • Maryhill Museum
    • The City Museum in St. Louis
    • We didn't mention it, but Greg just read this NYRB article about an early, anatomically focused cabinet of wonderp

    What Are We Reading?

    Favorite Books of 2022!

    Kristianne

    • Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith
    • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena or Mercury Pictures Presents - Anthony Marra (bonus: also author of The Tsar of Love and Techno )
    • The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
    • Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century - Kim Fu (I read 11 short story collections this year! Kelly Link, Ted Chiang, Rebecca Makkai, Sequoia Nagamatsu)
    • The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa

    Greg

    • The Leopard (of course)
    • Maybe the People Would be the Times and Low Life - Lucy Sante
    • LaserWriter II - Tamara Shopsin
    • Means of Ascent - Robert Caro
    • Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

    What Song Did We Choose?

    and Dave rocking the pirate shirt on The Tonight Show:

    What's Up Next

    • A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes
    In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner Nov 21, 2022
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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 In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner - an eccentric polymath, kind of like a certain David Jones we all know. Plus, T.S. Eliot impersonations!

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Adam Gopnik's postscript on Steiner in the New Yorker
    • "Our Steiner Problem, and Mine" by Lee Siegel
    • The T.S. Eliot Lecture Series
    • Hex Enduction Records and Books - Seattle's best record n' book store.
    • Irving Howe didn't like these
    • Magic and Loss - The Internet as Art
    • The Book Exchange in Missoula

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
    • Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

    Kristianne:

    • Square Eyes by Anna Mill and Luke Jones
    • The Unwritten Book by Samantha Hunt

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders - Lawrence Weschler
    Room at the Top by John Braine Oct 24, 2022
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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 Room at the Top by John Braine, about an angry young man in a dirty old town.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Life at the Top - the sequel!
    • Man at the Top - the BBC sequel (to the sequel?)
    • Simone Signoret
    • Graywolf Press
    • The Dorothy Project
    • Chris O'Leary's Patreon
    • Bluebeard - it was actually a mouse, not a cat!

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • American Midnight edited by Laird Hunt
    • Hand Drying in America by Ben Katchor
    • Master of the Senate by Robert Caro

    Kristianne:

    • When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà purchased at Symposium Books!
    • Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin
    • All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
    • The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
    • Subdivision by J Robert Lennon bought at Exile in Bookville
    • The Wild Hunt - by Emma Seckel

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • In Bluebeard's Castle - George Steiner
    On the Road by Jack Kerouac Sep 19, 2022
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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 On the Road by everyone's high school boyfriend, Jack Kerouac. We also talk about the new Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream which we just saw IN A MOVIE THEATRE shudder!

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Joyce Johnson's article on Kerouac and Robert Frank
    • Hal Chase/Chad King
    • Slate Star Codex review
    • NYT article about Moonage Daydream

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx
    • Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
    • Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald

    Kristianne:

    • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    • The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary (and the amazing movie starring Alec Guinness)

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • Room at the Top - John Braine
    The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa Aug 29, 2022
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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 Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, a slow, stately book about a very hot island.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • The movie version of The Leopard
    • The Last Leopard - biography of Guisippe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour
    • Guardian article on Lampedusa and Machievelli
    • NYT article on the 50th anniversary of the book

    Here's the trailer for Moonage Daydream

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • The Dancing Plague by Gareth Fellowes
    • A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
    • A Year with Swollen Appendages by Brian Eno

    Kristianne:

    • The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
    • The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
    • The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova

    What Song Did We Choose?

    In Italian!

    What's Up Next

    • On the Road - Jacky Kerouac
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