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 Money by Martin Amis - the literary equivalent of watching someone fall down thousands of flights of stairs and wondering why you're laughing so hard.
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 Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom (or something like that) a intensely jaded look at the first couple decades of rock music from legendary writer Nik Cohn.
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Arfur by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Tommy, and super expensive)
I Am The Still the Greatest, Says Johnny Angelo by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Ziggy Stardust?)
Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night (the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever - and somewhat made up)
Rock Dreams by Nik Cohn and Guy Peellaert
Nik Cohn is nice to Bowie - and mean to the Rolling Stones
Greg:
Kristianne
Money - Martin Amis
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 Homer Tarantino's gory classic of bromanticism - The Iliad
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We read different translations of this here gruesome volume - Kristianne had the Robert Fagles and Greg read the Carolyn Alexander
Want to understand the Iliad? This is the only infographic you need
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The War that Killed Achilles by Carolyn Alexander
Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
Christa Wolf's book on Cassandra that we should've read!
Greg:
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn
