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.
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Stuff We Talked About
- University of Chicago professor's article on Zanoni
- Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
- our episode on The Leopard
- The connection between Bowie, Zanoni and...Torquay?
- Pushing Ahead of the Dame on 'Oh You Pretty Things'
The Rest of the Books for 2024!!
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune
- Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
- Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
- Pale Horse by Laura Spinney
- The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
- Monsters - A Fans Dilemma by Claire Dederer
- There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Kristianne:
- Lilith by Nikki Marmery
- Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
- In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
A Grave for a Dolphin (or at least part of it!) by Alberto Denti di Pirajno