Bowie Book Club Podcast

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Bowie Book Club Podcast episodes

December 22, 2025 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 beer and cold nights (and many, many other more important themes and ideas!)
47 min
November 24, 2025The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
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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 Medium is the Massage by Marchall McLuhan, a stew of images, aphorisms and (maybe unfounded?) optimism that will loosen up those tired media muscles.
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Stuff We Talked About
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
New Dark Age by James Bridle
Bulldog News magazines, newspapers and ice cream in Seattle's U District!
AdBusters
The Stranger Seattle's only newspaper
Sabotage Noise zine
Laura Cannell's Bandcamp
Omicron, the Nomad Soul - it's a video game! With Bowie as a character!
Bowie's 1999 BBC Interview
Blank Check podcast
What Are We Reading
Greg:
The Thin Man - Dashing Dashiell Hammett
Frankisstein - Jeanette Winterson
Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Barton Fink / Miller's Crossing - Joel and Ethan Coen
Kristianne:
Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
Brigands and Breadknives - Travis Baldree
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. LeGuin
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52 min
October 20, 2025 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 surprise) is not Chronicles of Narnia fan-fic despite the appearance of a Big Lion who solves everything. Also features drugs that are fiended after throughout.
48 min
September 22, 2025 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 Destiny, Trevor Ravenscroft's minimally factual tale of the occult and its hallucinatory hold on Adolf Hilter.
47 min
August 18, 2025 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 flying saucers, devil-haunted pools, and John Bonham's breakfast. Oh, and David Bowie too.
57 min
July 21, 2025 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 proflic narcissist who packed a lot of splayed figures and elongated fingers into his brief life!
52 min
June 30, 2025 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 glasses of gin, otherworldly chemistry and, why not, fake eyebrows too.
48 min
May 26, 2025 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 to get you into an emigre's state of mind.
41 min
April 21, 2025 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 William Burroughs - maybe it's science fiction? Maybe it's a spell to thwart mind control ? Maybe it's just not meant to be read?
46 min
March 24, 2025 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 how people have collectively let their hair down over the past few centuries.
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.…