February Catch Up Episode: More Hawksmoor and More!

In this episode, we gab about Hawksmoor and the next books coming up for #bowiebookclub and from our own list. And Greg apologizes a lot too.

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Plenty of good ideas about the end of Hawksmoor - check out #bowiebookclub and our twitter page to catch up on the conversations.
- Is Dyer out of time and still murdery? (@KJBolden / @MikePBlanchard)
- Do the murders run on a 400-year cycle? (@rotblot)
- Maybe London itself is the evil force and Dyer is just a tool? (@Martin65)
- Everyone (well, Greg, at least) agrees that this is very Twin-Peaksy. Did Bowie introduce Lynch to the book? (@mr_duffin)
Bowie talking about Hawksmoor! (@maccazgrl)
Who would you cast as Hawksmoor? Idris Alba is a wise choice (@JohnF80174692). We went for Anthony Hopkins as Dyer (kind of a gimme, but you know.)
the London Review of Books has a great wrap of the book and the conversations around it on their blog.
Lots of new song ideas:
- A Foggy Day in London (@I_Joanna_I)
- I thought of Outside a lot, also the Man Who Sold The World, and I can hear Quicksand playing over the closing credits. Side two of Heroes fits nice also. (@eclecticbob) (we nicked Quicksand for our closing credits, thanks!)
- Got to be Width of a Circle (@Typo47221555)
- Agree with those who say Outside, and for me the “song” is the Algeria Touchshriek interlude. (@ThePleiades1)
- Lyrics from Blackstar - “spirit rose and stepped aside…another took his place” (@opusfive)

And of course:

tis a pity she was a hawk pic.twitter.com/7EqMeYjtmm
— Crayon to Crayon (@CrayonToCrayon) January 25, 2018

Peter Ackroyd has a new book coming out in May - Queer City
If you're in the mood for creepy minimalist ambient music, check out the Hawksmoor episode of Greg's other podcast Too Tired to Say Anything
We had a nice chat on Bookhub last week about Bowie and books
To be clear, Ian Sinclair is NOT DEAD. (whew). Greg just finished his Ghost Milk and is excited to start The Last London once his brain recovers.
Derek Jacobi doesn't believe in Shakespeare - he may be right
The next #bowiebookclub book is The Fire Next Time, an incredible, powerful book that we discussed last summer. Really looking forward to revisiting it. Folks outside the US are still looking for a copy if you want to help out.
We're reading some other books for Black History Month:
- John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead - Kristianne is listening to his Underground Railroad too.
- We Were Eight Years in Power
- The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward
- This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America Book by Morgan Jerkins
We forgot to mention it on the podcast, but @joanna__pearson put together some awesome Bowie Book Club badges with all proceeds going to charity!
Our next book is Before the Deluge by Otto Friedrich, a portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, which we'll discuss in great and discursive detail at the end of the month as is our wont.