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 Nova Express by William Burroughs - maybe it's science fiction? Maybe it's a spell to thwart mind control? Maybe it's just not meant to be read?
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Stuff We Talked About
- Marshall McLuhan's writings on Burroughs
- Jon Savage article on the meeting
- Michael Apted's documentary on creativity - Imaginations
- "The Priest", They Called Him - collaboration with Kurt Cobain
- How Scientology Shaped the Writing of William S. Burroughs
- What David Bowie Borrowed from William Burroughs - LitHub
What Are We Reading
Greg:
- Hampton Heights by Dan Kois
- Lynch on Lynch by Chris Rodley
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Kristianne:
- Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europeby Ronald Hutton
- A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
- Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
- (finished!) Awe by Dacher Keltner
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov