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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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    The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Oct 25, 2021
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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 Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, one of our favorites on the list - a fairy tale that careens through the Moscow of the 1920's, and is otherwise impossible to describe accurately. In the spirit of inaccuracy, Greg got several names and facts wrong in this episodes, which he blames on g-g-g-g-ghosts.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • The Soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ
    • Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death - record by James Blackshaw (Greg got the name wrong)
    • Love Is The Nessage, The Message Is Death - video installation by Arthur Jafa (Greg got the name wrong here too)

    What Are We Reading?

    Kristianne:

    • Bewilderment by Richard Powers
    • All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
    • Camille by Sheridan LeFanu

    Greg:

    • Book of Night Women by Marlon James
    • Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr (pseudonym for Alice Sheldon - Greg got her story wrong too!)
    • The Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker, edited by Leslie Klinger
    • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

    What Song Did We Choose?

    Greg won the coin toss, so here's the SKELETON DANCE!

    What's Up Next

    • The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
    On Having No Head by D.E Harding Sep 27, 2021
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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 Having No Head by Douglas Harding, a slender guidebook to quick and painless enlightenment.

    The Stranger by Albert Camus Aug 30, 2021
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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 sat in a cafe, drinking free refill after free refill, perfected our looks of total ennui and read The Stranger by Albert Camus.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
    • Looking for the Stranger by Alice Kaplan
    • The Mersault Investigations
    • An article about the Stranger in the New Republic
    • An article about Camus in the New Yorker
    • Another New Yorker article about the first word of The Stranger
    • What's in a title - an article about the title of the Stranger in the Guardian
    • The book that ties the whole list together
    • The absurd in Bowie's world
    • My hovercraft is full of eels

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg

    • The Book of Night Women by Marlon James and finally done with Black Leopard, Red Wolf!
    • The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner and Telex from Cuba too.
    • The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash
    • The Sheltering Sky by Paulieboy Bowles

    Kristianne

    • Black Hole by Charles Burns
    • How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
    • Loop by Brenda Lozaro

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    On Having No Head by Douglass Harding

    Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh Jul 26, 2021
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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 Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, a careening comic novel of doomed romance, never ending parties, and rotating gossip columnists.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • The PBS series of Brideshead Revisited
    • His first novel, Decline and Fall
    • The movie version: Bright Young Things
    • The Bowie Bookshelf

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - as always.
    • Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
    • Centilogal 2020 by Levi Fuller

    Kristianne:

    • Devil in the White City
    • My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • The Stranger by Albert Camus

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    English Journey by JB Priestly Jun 21, 2021
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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 English Journey by J.B. Priestley, a gripping tale of a grump making his way around England in the dour `30s.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • This is the Folio Society edition of the book that we both read.

    • Down and Out In Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier by Priestly's arch-nemesis (maybe?) George Orwell.

    • A BBC4 presentation on Priestly's "Postscripts" - his radio addresses during WWII.

    • An English Journey, Reimagined, part 1 with Alan Moore and Ian Sinclair.

    • And we totally spaced on this, but the super nice @travelswbrindle interviewed us for an article about the Bowie list for Early Bird Books. Thanks Chelsea!

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - still! And some of Ulysses and Ulysses Annotated for Bloomsday!

    Kristianne: Red Island House by Andrea Lee and Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
    Tadanori Yokoo May 24, 2021
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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 book (though probably not the right book) about the incredibly prolific Japanese artist and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Maybe this was the book we were supposed to read?
    • Article on Yokoo's album cover designs
    • Article on the mural he's working on with his daughter.
    • Tadanori Yokoo's website
    • Greg hearts Gary Panter who hearts Tadanori Yokoo.
    • Kristianne wasn't kidding about National Goth Day
    • And she was right about the name of the butoh movie - it was Cherry Blossoms)!
    • Photographer Mick Rock captured Bowie in kabuki mode
    • MOMA has a great selection of Yokoo's work on their website

    What Are We Reading?

    • Matrix by Lauren Groff
    • Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman
    • Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
    • The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • English Journey by J.B. Priestley
    Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art Apr 26, 2021
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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 took a little wander through Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall and read about a lot of saints with swords (sometimes stuck in their heads)

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • James Hall's obituary in the Guardian
    • Article about the first English dictionaries
    • Mountweazel!
    • The random paintings we attempted to decipher.
    • Our episode about David Bomberg.
    • We didn't talk about it, but here's Nick Cave's handwritten dictionary h/t to Austin Kleon's excellent recent blog post on dictionaries

    What Are We Reading?

    • Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
    • The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner
    • Bleak House by Charlie Dickens (as always)
    • Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
    • The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
    • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
    • Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
    Mini Episode! How To Read a Dictionary Apr 05, 2021
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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 attemped to cobble together a plan to read Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

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    Ok, here's the plan for reading through this crazy dictionary:

    1. Take a look at the 3 paintings below (selected in a completely scientific and statistically significant way) and make your guess as to the subject of the painting, using the dictionary as your guide.
    2. Greg and Kristianne will take a random walk through the dictionary, using elements of Francis Bacon's paintings as a starting point.

    If you need other stimuli, then we also mentioned:

    • Dictionary of the Khazars
    • The Greatest Video on the Internet, if you like Orson Welles, or even if you don't

    What's Up Next

    Join us here around about the 18th of April as we discuss our highly academic and rigorously researched findings!

    Can you guess the subject and/or title of these paintings?

    Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Mar 22, 2021
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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 Interviews with Francis Bacon, a beautifully constructed cut and paste job from the noted art critic David Sylvester.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Kitty Hauser's This Is Bacon
    • the Start the Week podcast
    • Our episode on the Life and Times of Little Richard
    • Our episode on the Waste Land
    • Pushing Ahead of the Dame on "Sound and Vision"

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What Else Are We Reading?

    • Greg will be reading Bleak House and Gormenghast for the rest of eternity.
    • Kristianne is reading Girls Against God which is having some...strange...effects on her, as well as No One Is Talking About This by Twitter's one and only champion Patricia Lockwood and Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.

    What's Up Next

    • Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall
    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Feb 22, 2021
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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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a jazzy tale of the very American art of self-invention.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • BBC article - "The World's Most Misunderstood Book"

    • Ole Mel Bragg's "In Our Time" podcast episode on Gatsby

    • Our episode on Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason

    • interview about the origins of 'Nick' - here's the novel at bookshop.org

    • an excerpt in the Paris Review from Wesley Morris' new introduction to Gatsby.

    • Greil Marcus on Gatsby

    • Jesymn Ward on Gatsby

    • Gatsby, Liberace and Bowie

    • Our episode on The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

    What Else Did We Read This Month?

    • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
    • Gormenghast Trilogy by Melvyn Peake
    • The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
    • Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
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