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 Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. - an unrelenting parade of bleakness in a pre-genetrification borough - no artisinal yogurt in sight!
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Stuff We Talked About
- Last Exit to Springfield
- Last Exit on Brooklyn - home of the Meatball Train
- "Throwing Up Absurb" review in the NYRB
- Review in Commentary magazine
- 50 Years Later, Looking for Last Exit
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
- Crook Manifesto - Colson Whitehead
- Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
- Book War! [Will in the World])https://bookshop.org/a/105/9780393352603) by Stephan Greenblatt vs. Shakespeare was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler
Kristianne:
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Saving Time Jenny Odell
- An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
- Event Factory by Renee Gladman (also her Calamaties essays "I start the day...")