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 Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which suprisingly ISN'T about Iggy Pop!
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 Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, which might be the most Bowie of the Bowie books we've read so far, in some ways.
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 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol a picaresque novel of a grifter being grifty in Old Russia.
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 Hollywood Babylon a cruel and carnal compilation of old Hollywood tragedies written by Kenneth Anger, who apparently shares our disdain for thorough research!
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 Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, a hard-boiled story of mysterious realms, stiff drinks and super-powered artifacts.
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 Life and Times of Little Richard - the Authorized Biography by Charles "Dr. Rock" White, which contains lots of scatalogical pranks, sermons and stories of debauchery from one of the wildest voices ever. Rock and roll.
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 Sexual Personae by Camillia Paglia, which left us feeling a bit...cthonic.
Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
Bacchus by Eddie Campbell
Monstress comics series
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White
Camille meets Kristianne!
The last known photo of the great poet.
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 Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, and tried to talk about anything else beside the poem (and you know...that other thing that's going on).
Apologies again for the recording weirdness! We're such a bunch of fireworms (that'll make more sense after you listen to this one). We'll get it together at some point.
We didn't mention this (Greg spaced), but the British library has a cool webpage about the influences on The Waste Land.
The source of the whole green face powder thing - an article about "Low" and T.S. Eliots influences.
TS Eliot was a bad boyfriend
Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver
Post-Colonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio
Degrees of Grey in Phillipsburg by Richard Hugo
The Hugo House in Seattle
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
Did Bowie Pinch a Cactus from T.S. Eliot? - well, did he?
OMG, Alec Guiness is the best
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
