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 really weird D & D manual called Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual by Éliphas Lévi, half-poet, half-socialist, and all beard.

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 Sound of the City by musicologist and BBC DJ Charlie Gillett, a veritable bible for pop music nerds. Spoiler alert: Greg does not sing in this one (or any one, ever).

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 episode, we chat about what we've been reading besides the book we're supposed to be reading.

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New book club member Maggie the Dog is not impressed.

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 Silence by John Cage, an intensely charming (though sometimes confusing!) book about music theory (sort of) and mushroom hunting (definitely)

Our guest is Mark Schlipper - experimental/improv musician (and Moon Knight aficionado) whose current projects include drone rockers The Luna Moth, improv stoner-doom-noise-mininmalism Perish The Island, and various other other solo projects.

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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 is another gossipy episode with a little bit about the tome we're about to read - Silence by John Cage

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 Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guaralnick a compendium of all things related to the musical genre, and most emphatically NOT about Motown.

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 just gossiped about this and that - though it all seems to come back to Bowie, as usual.

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 do a super quick roundup of our 2019 books and shout out some folks who are WAY ahead of us on the book list live from the floor of Podcon2, where we saw a bunch of great pdocasts and learned how to make this a little bit less of a mess.

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 American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford - a cheery little tome that's been called the "Consumer Reports of the Funeral Industry".

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Our guest this episode is the hardest working man in show business, or at least the hardest working person who's been on this show - Levi Fuller, who's known for his bands Levi Fuller and the Library and the Luna Moth, and his quarterly Ball of Wax compilation, which gathers great music from all sorts of directions.

Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly #25 - songs about books.

Bushwick Bookclub of Seattle

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Stiff by Mary Roach

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty and her guide on How to Make Your Death Plan

New Yorker article about Jessica Mitford

Mitford singing 'Right, Said Fred' with Maya Angelou

the etymology of the word 'wake'

"Safety" coffins

George Romero

Pure Cremation

Online cut-up generator

Dismal Fest in Seattle

Garden District Bookshop in New Orleans

We start a streak of music books with Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick.

And here's our list of books for 2019!

Levi presented us with his take on the book in "The Funerals Profession"

With these cut-up lyrics

At family contribute the funerals profession

without family tribute family back already

The Here about a body icon’s family memorial

People want crematorium and legal occasion

The Here about a body icon’s family memorial

And his choice from 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 In Cold Blood, a non-fiction novel about a gruesome killing in Kansas by Truman Capote who may have shared our fancy for wild speculation.