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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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 Gift by Vladimir Nabokov, a multi-level marketing scheme to get you into an emigre's state of mind.By Bowie Book Club Podcast
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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 Nova Express (https://bookshop.org/a/105/9780802122087) by William Burroughs - maybe it's science fiction? Maybe it's a spell to thwart mind control ? Maybe it's just not me…
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Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich
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49:50Welcome 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 Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich, a survey about how people have collectively let their hair down over the past few centuries.…
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Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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45:57Welcome 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 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, which is about how awful it was to travel before you could use noise-canceling headphones to eliminate any possibility of getting…
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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 Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, which turns out to be about much more than Iggy Pop's satin pants.By Bowie Book Club Podcast
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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 Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which suprisingly ISN'T about Iggy Pop!By The Bowie Book Club Podcast
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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 Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, which might be the most Bowie of the Bowie books we've read so far, in some ways.By The Bowie Book Club Podcast
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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 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol a picaresque novel of a grifter being grifty in Old Russia.By Bowie Book Club Podcast
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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 Hollywood Babylon a cruel and carnal compilation of old Hollywood tragedies written by Kenneth Anger, who apparantly shares our disdain for thorough research!…
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Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
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37:50Welcome 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 Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, a hard-boiled story of mysterious realms, stiff drinks and super-powered artifacts. Apologies for the jingling sounds in the …
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Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wildspeculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books hasreigned supreme since 2016. This time we read a book mostly about conferences on the astral plane, Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS |Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon Facebook…
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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 Orlando by Virginia Woolf, a book that essentially proves that David Bowie and Tilda Swinton are one person.By Bowie Book Club Podcast
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A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti (and the end of Season One!)
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56:37Welcome 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 (sort of) A Grave for a Dolphin by Ally Teeth (or Alberto Denti, Duke of Pirajno, if you must), a story about a manic pixie dream fish and the marine biologist (at least tha…
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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 Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, an overheated occult pot-boiler that manages to keep the hot esoteric gobbletygook flying for over 400 pages! Spoiler alert: Greg wrote this …
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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 …
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Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wildspeculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books hasreigned supreme since 2016. This time we read PrivateEye, a half-serious, half-sillyBritish political magazine that is the ultimate in IYKYK. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS |Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon Fac…
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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 atNoon by Arthur Koestler, a tale of human pyschology under duress that makes a fitting end to the Russian books thatBowie had on his list. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS …
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Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wildspeculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books hasreigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The HiddenPersuadersby Vance Packard, a quaint little preview of the non-stop psychological prodding we endure now. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS |Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a cree…
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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.…
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Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wildspeculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books hasreigned supreme since 2016. This time we read StrangePeoplea rundown of all the freaks, geeks and mentalists you'll ever want toencounter. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS |Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon Facebo…
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Welcome to another episode of the BowieBook Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws aboutBowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time weread 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. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS …
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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr
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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 B…
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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 happ…
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Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping forstraws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read LadyChatterly'sLoverby D.H. Lawrence, which has all the bowels and loins anyone could ask for. Subscribe! iTunes | RSS |Stitcher Follow us! (Not in a creepy way) Mastadon Fac…
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