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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. Apologies for the jingling sounds in the background - we had a very active feline collaborator on this one.

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 Orlando by Virginia Woolf, a book that essentially proves that David Bowie and Tilda Swinton are one person.

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 (sort of) A Grave for a Dolphin by Ally Teeth (or Alberto Denti, Duke of Pirajno, if you must), a story about a manic pixie dream fish and the marine biologist (at least that's what AI thinks) who loved her.

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 Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, an overheated occult pot-boiler that manages to keep the hot esoteric gobbletygook flying for over 400 pages! Spoiler alert: Greg wrote this description and it may (does) not reflect the views of the other half of this podcast.

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 Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey - interviews with foundational artists of soul music asthey deal with aging, and (in the case of Screaming Jay Hawkins) serve drinks out of a skull or something.

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 Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, a quaint little preview of the non-stop psychological prodding we endure now.

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• Salon article on the book
• article on Bowie's brief spell as an ad man in The Drum
• our episode on A People's Tragedy

Greg:

• The Pickwick Papers (of course!) by Charles Dickens
• Rim of Morning by William Sloane
• Gone to the Wolves by John Wray

Kristianne:

• The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
• Julia by Sandra Newman

Greg:

• Fingersmith in a 3-way split with White Noise and 42nd Parallel
• Dreaming as Delerium by J. Allen Hobson
• The House with a Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Kristianne:

• also Fingersmith!
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott
• East of Eden by Johnny Steinbeck
• Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

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 Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto - if you like art, philosophy and the philosophy of art, you might get through this a little easier than we did.

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. 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 Beano, a British comic that has been teaching the fundamentals of anarchy to the youth of the UK decades before Johnny Rotten gave his first snarl.

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 we read The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos, a big sweeping tale of America at the turn of the 20th century, including getting chased by a farmer with a shotgun, which happened all the time back then.

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 Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman - if you're a fan of gin n' ginger ale or of extremely stylized dialog, you're going to love this one.

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 * Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, a novel of deception, doublecross, and people being absolute fucksters to each other.

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• The Handmaiden - movie version of Fingersmith by cue ChatGPT Park Chan-Wook
• London Labor and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew

Greg:

• Spring by Ali Smith
• Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna

Kristianne:

• Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart
• The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
• Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman

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 doorstop of a history of the Russian Revolution: Orlando Figes' "A People's Tragedy".

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 Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard - a play where a lot happens just off stage and there's a lot of talking about thinking.

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 book of literary criticism/history about Gustave Flaubert that (suprise!) turns out to be a novel that's not really about a bird at all (or is it?) - Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

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

• Our ridiculous episode about The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

• Shakespeare's Second Best Bet

• The Myths and Legends Podcast

• Christa Wolf's book on Cassandra that we should've read!

Greg:

• Devil House by John Darnielle (also Wolf in White Van and Universal Harvester)

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn

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.

We survived another year, and that means we get to dust off the ole Choosenator and see what new books it brings us. This time we had a little canine assistance - our trusty guide led us through the wilds of Seattle (ok, through quiet residential neighborhoods) and pointed us at the correct numbers for the books for 2022!

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• The Iliad - Homer Simpson
• Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn
• Money - Martin Amis
• Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
• In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan
• Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard
• The Leopard - Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
• Room at the Top - John Braine
• On the Road - Jacky Kerouac
• In Bluebeard's Castle - George Steiner
• Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders - Lawrence Weschler
• A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes

Kristianne:

• The Enchanted
• Tale for the Time Being
• The Anthropocene Review and The Book of Delights
• Piranesi

Greg:

• A Little Devil in America
• Gormenghast
• Tadanori Yokoo
• Piranesi
• The Dakota Winters and The Perfume Burned His Eyes

Kristanne listened to House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door while walking her dog.

Greg couldn't remember that Sir Derek Jacobi read the audio version of Hawksmoor - here's our episode about that book

Buy records and books from Hex Enduction Records and Books in Lake City, Seattle. Even if you're not in Seattle, they have a giant Discogs page - they're good folks with good stuff!

We'll start things off next month with a relatively new, very modern tome - The Iliad. See y'all then!

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 George Orwell's classic work of numerology, 1984.

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 On Having No Head by Douglas Harding, a slender guidebook to quick and painless enlightenment.

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 took a little wander through Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall and read about a lot of saints with swords (sometimes stuck in their heads)

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• James Hall's obituary in the Guardian
• Article about the first English dictionaries
• Mountweazel!
• The random paintings we attempted to decipher.
• Our episode about David Bomberg.
• We didn't talk about it, but here's Nick Cave's handwritten dictionary h/t to Austin Kleon's excellent recent blog post on dictionaries

• Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
• The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner
• Bleak House by Charlie Dickens (as always)
• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
• The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi

• Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

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 Street by Ann Petry, a harsh but gripping tale, which **almost** led to the worst song choice in the history of this podcast.