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 The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, which turns out to be about much more than Iggy Pop's satin pants.
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Stuff We Talked About
- Telex from Cuba - Kushner's first book
- Creation Lake - her most recent book
- The Hard Crowd - her collection of essays
- New York Magazine article on Kushner
- Interview with Cord Jefferson the director of American Fiction on the Team Deakins podcast.
What Are We Reading
Greg:
- Trees by Percival Everett
- Jerusalem by Alan Moore
- Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna
- Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Kristianne:
- Erasure by Percival Everett
- Prophet by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché
- Anzuelo by Emma Rios - the other book by Rios that we were thinking of was Mirror
The 2025 Book List!
The 9th Choosening was conducted at the highly haunted University of Washington mainstay - the College Inn Pub
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
- Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Nova Express by William Burroughs
- The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
- some book of pictures by Egon Schiele - we'll settle on one soon!
- Backstage Passes by Angie Bowie
- Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft
- Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
- Medium is the Message by Marchall McLuhan
- Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
- Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith