The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara

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 got some lunch with the most personable of New York poets, Frank O'Hara, who seemed to know everybody and everything going on around him.

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Stuff we Mentioned

• New York School

• Personism

• Frank O'Hara's acquired accent

• What Frank O'Hara Reveals about Internet Brains

• Magic and Loss

• Danny Kaye

• Patricia Lockwood on Twitter

• Drift on Inn It's closed! Sad face.

• Pushing Ahead of the Dame

• The Three Penny Opera written by Eliasbeth Hauptmann, not that jackanape Bertolt Brecht!

• Krazy Kat

• I Am Not Your Negro

What's Up Next

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

What Song Did We Choose?

Multiple songs! One for each poem we chose.

Greg picked this to go with the "Three-penny Opera"

There's also a pretty great version from the Space Oddity 45 on YouTubes:

Kristianne picked this to go with "Steps"

City of Night by John Rechy

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 a tale of youngmen and sexmoney (and many other ecstatically compounded words) - City of Night by John Rechy

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Stuff we Mentioned

• LA Woman

• Island Books - Mercer Island WA

• Rechy's Autobiography

• NY Times Review

• Dan Savage

• Independent article on John Rechy

• Eddie Izzard

• It Gets Better

• My Own Private Idaho - "Van Sant originally wrote the screenplay in the 1970s, but discarded it after reading John Rechy's 1963 novel City of Night and concluding that Rechy's treatment of the subject of street hustlers was better than his own"

• Why did Kristianne reference Gilligan's Island?

Kristianne reads on planes a lot...

What's Up Next

• The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara

What Song Did We Choose?

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

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 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. FINALLY A BOOK WE LIKED.

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• Juno Diaz interview on Fresh Air

• Juno Diaz interview from In our Times

• Edwidge Danticat interviews Juno Diaz

• "Fukus Americanus" in the Nation

• Miss Burma

• Blitzed not Wired

• David Byrne's 'Here Lives Love'

• THE GREATEST THING EVER: Love and Rockets comics by Los Bros Hernandez)

• David Bowie's Mustique estate up for rent!

• Indie Bookstore Day

• Liberty By Books

• Eagle Harbor Books

• Twitter magic!

• The Complete David Bowie (as always)

What's Up Next

• City of Night by John Rechy

What Song Did We Choose?