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.

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!

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 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 background - we had a very active feline collaborator on this one.

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 mostly about conferences on the astral plane, Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune.

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Stuff We Talked About

• Sane Occultism by Dion Fortune

• Angie Bowie's Backstage Passes

• Bowie: A Biography by Mark Spitz

• The Demon Slayers by Sam Kestenbaum

• The Roadside Picnic video game IS REAL

What Are We Reading

Greg:

• Moonbound by Robin Sloan
• This Must Be the Place by Jesse Rifkin
• This Rancid Mill by Kyle Decker

Kristianne

• Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
• HIM by Geoff Ryman
• The Modern Craft by Askew and Tarbuck

What Song Did We Choose?

What's Up Next

Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

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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.

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 (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 that's what AI thinks) who loved her.

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 description and it may (does) not reflect the views of the other half of this 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 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.

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

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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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