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 George Orwell's classic work of numerology, 1984
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Stuff We Talked About
- Our episode on "Inside the Whale"
- The truth about Orwell's romantic 'arrangements' in the Guardian
- Is George Orwell death?
- "He wrote in bed in his dressing gown"
- 1984 article about 1984 from the New York Times
- The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
- How "Orwellian" became an all-purpose insult
- Sandra Newman's upcoming feminist retelling of 1984
- David Bowie's Orwell in the Guardian
- Are the Fugs good?
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
- A Little Devil in America by Hanif Aburraquib
- Winter by Ali Smith
- Better to Have Gone by Akash Kapur
- Matrix by Lauren Groff
Kristianne:
- The Every by Dave Eggars
- The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki