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