Bowie Book Club Podcast

By Greg Miller & Kristianne HuntsbergerArts Music

Bowie Book Club Podcast episodes

October 26Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
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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 month, we read Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko, a short novella with only a few characters and settings (just kidding, it's huge and there's literally a cast of thousands!)
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Stuff We Talked About
article in ArtForum
article in the New Yorker
What Are We Reading
Kristianne:
Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers
Angel Down - Daniel Kraus
Queer As Folklore - Sacha Coward
Greg:
Nonesuch - Francis Spufford
The Disappearers - Marlon James
The Castle - Jon Ronson
The House with a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
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53 min
September 21 V. by Thomas Pynchon
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 story of...the story of...we'll we're not entirely sure. It was called V. by the very publically visible Thomas Pynchon and it was a lot of fun anyways!
53 min
August 24Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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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 Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, a book that has launched a thousand dorm room conversations.
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Stuff We Talked About
Kurt's appearance in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield*
He's in a coffee ad with Bowie too!
excerpt from On Vonnegut's Karass vs. Granfalloon
the kids who read Jack Kerouac and listened to David Bowie and smoked cigarettes behind the bleachers, where they hung out on the way to protesting the Vietnam War
What Are We Reading?
Kristianne:
The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday - Sharon Blackie
If Women Rose Rooted - Sharon Blackie
The Centaur's Wife - Amanda Leduc
Proust, of course
Greg:
Stay Alive - Ian Buruma
Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Katherine Anne Porter
The Plotinus - Rikki Ducornet
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
V by Tommy Boy Pynchy
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52 min
July 27Basquiat - The Notebooks
Bowie Book Club Podcast - Basquiat - The Notebooks
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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 Basquiat - The Notebooks edited by Larry Warsh - just like the ones you used in grade school, but probably worth a lot more!
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Stuff We Talked About
Bowie's art collection - including Basquiat!
Interview with Bowie and Julian Schnabel on Charlie Rose
"New Art, New Money" article in the NY Times Magazine
What Are We Reading
Kristianne:
The River Has Roots - Amal El-Mohtar
Wild Life - Amanda Leduc
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space - Amanda Leduc
A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
started the third Proust book! The Guermantes Way
Greg:
Vineland - Tommy Pinchy
Here Where We Live is Our Country - Molly Crabapple
The Murmuration - Carlos Labbe
Affliction - Russell Banks
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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1 hr 2 min
June 22Cheap Novelties by Ben Katchor
Cheap Novelties by Ben Katchor
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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 Cheap Novelties by Ben Katchor
about one man's eternal search for Herbert Water, or a Grape Bosphorus, at least. All you have is cans?
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Stuff We Talked About
Ben Katchor with Fran Leibowitz
Bowie writes about NYC
John Maggiore of "Maggiore on Bowie" does a tour of Bowie's NYC
Passenger Pigeon - Another New Low - a new-ish record worth a listen!
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn - we're still talking about this book!
What Are We Reading
Kristianne:
Kalpa Imperial - Angelica Gorodischer
Red City- Marie Lu
The Celestial Seas - T.A. Chan
Wife Shaped Bodies - Laura Cranehill
Greg:
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
City on Fire - Garth Risk Hallberg
Gods of New York - Johnathan Mahler
True Grit - Charles Portis
Watershed - Percival Everett
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Basquiat - The Notebooks - edited by Larry Warsh
Jean-Michel Basquiat - 40th Edition
47 min
May 18 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 time telling his friends how immoral he is. Almost as good as Maldoror!
44 min
April 20 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 turns out to be more than just a vehicle for the majestic acting of Harry Dean Stanton!
51 min
March 23 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 philosophical hot spots, Grendel by John Gardner.
50 min
March 02 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 about poets who never seem to write any poetry, but do a lot of other crazy stuff.
53 min
January 26 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-fixer Thomas Cromwell without a mention of turkey legs.
50 min

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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.…