Bowie Book Club Podcast
Books & Literature
About
Two friends have had a book club for a very very long time. It was mostly an excuse to drink and gossip. In January of 2016, they found renewed purpose in their sadness over the death of David Bowie. They decided to stop mucking around and actually get some reading done - from the list of books that he loved.
Episodes
- The Immoralist by Andre Gide
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 Immoralist by Andre Gide, about a guy who spends a lot of…
- The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
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 Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis, which turn…
- Grendel by John Gardner
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 about a muppet (?) monster and his tour of the philoso…
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
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 Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano - a far-ranging tome…
- Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
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 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, which tells the tale of arch-fixe…
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
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 Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, a story of hot…
- The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan The Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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 20…
- Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
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 Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley, which (much to our…
- The Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft
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 (or maybe just encountered on the Astral Plane?) The Spear of…
- Backstage Passes by Angela Bowie
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 Backstage Passes by Angie Bowie, a tell-all that includes fly…
- Egon Schiele - The Paintings
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 Egon Schiele - The Paintings, a collection of works by a very…
- The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
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 Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, a story of large gl…
- The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
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 Gift by Vladimir Nabokov, a multi-level marketing scheme…
- Nova Express by William Burroughs
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 ( https://bookshop.org/a/105/9780802122087 ) by…
- Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich
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 Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich, a survey about…
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, which is about ho…
- The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
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 Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, which turns out to be ab…
- The Idiot by Fydor Dostoevksy
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…
- The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
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 m…
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
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 b…
- Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
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 Hollyw…
- Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
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…
- Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune
Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune The Bowie Bookclub Download 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 r…
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
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 tha…
- A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti (and the end of Season 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 (sort of) A Grave for a Dolphin by Ally Teeth (or Alberto Dent…
- Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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-boile…
- Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey
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 foundati…
- Private Eye
Private Eye Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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 Private Eye , a…
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Bowie Book Club Podcast - Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler The Bowie Book Club Podcast Download Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club , where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned…
- The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard The Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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. Thi…
- Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
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…
- Strange People by Frank Edwards
Strange People by Frank Edwards Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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 r…
- Writers at Work by the Paris Review
Writers at Work by the Paris Review Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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 w…
- Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr
- The Beano
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 gr…
- The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
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 t…
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Bowie Book Club Podcast - Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Bowie Book Club Podcast Download Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club , where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned…
- 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 Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman - if you're a fan…
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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…
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
Bowie Book Club Podcast - White Noise by Don DeLillo Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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…
- A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
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 Fig…
- Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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…
- In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner
In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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 t…
- Room at the Top by John Braine
Room at the Top by John Braine Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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 re…
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Bowie Book Club - On The Road by Jack Kerouac The Bowie Book Club Download 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…
- The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa The Bowie Book Club Podcast Download 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…
- The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
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 happe…
- In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan Bowie Book Club Download 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…
- 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 a book of literary criticism/history about Gustave Flaubert th…
- Money by Martin Amis
Bowie Book Club - Money by Martin Amis The Bowie Book Club Download 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 w…