Bowie Book Club Podcast

By Greg Miller & Kristianne Huntsberger

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. ... more

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Bowie Book Club Podcast episodes:

February 20, 2023White Noise by Don DeLillo
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, a very funny, very timely book about death, among other concerns.
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Stuff We Talked About
The movie version of White Noise
article on the train derailment in Ohio
NYT magazine article on White Noise - the movie
Spectator article on White Noise and the interwebs
Heathen revisted
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
Libra by Don DeLillo
Underworld by Don D (but I'm unlikely to finish it before we start Fingersmith)
Ducks
Kristianne:
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (May)
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
...more
38min
January 23, 2023 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 Figes' "A People's Tragedy".
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54min
December 19, 2022Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
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 Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders by Lawrence Weschler, a short, sharp treatise on a weird, weird museum.
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Stuff We Talked About
Lawrence Weschler's Website
The (very Jurassic) website for the Museum of Jurassic Technology
The American Museum of Natural History in NYC
Maryhill Museum
The City Museum in St. Louis
We didn't mention it, but Greg just read this NYRB article about an early, anatomically focused cabinet of wonderp
What Are We Reading?
Favorite Books of 2022!
Kristianne
Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena or Mercury Pictures Presents - Anthony Marra (bonus: also author of The Tsar of Love and Techno )
The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century - Kim Fu (I read 11 short story collections this year! Kelly Link, Ted Chiang, Rebecca Makkai, Sequoia Nagamatsu)
The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Greg
The Leopard (of course)
Maybe the People Would be the Times and Low Life - Lucy Sante
LaserWriter II - Tamara Shopsin
Means of Ascent - Robert Caro
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
What Song Did We Choose?
and Dave rocking the pirate shirt on The Tonight Show:
What's Up Next
A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes
...more
49min
November 21, 2022In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner
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 Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner - an eccentric polymath, kind of like a certain David Jones we all know. Plus, T.S. Eliot impersonations!
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Stuff We Talked About
Adam Gopnik's postscript on Steiner in the New Yorker
"Our Steiner Problem, and Mine" by Lee Siegel
The T.S. Eliot Lecture Series
Hex Enduction Records and Books - Seattle's best record n' book store.
Irving Howe didn't like these
Magic and Loss - The Internet as Art
The Book Exchange in Missoula
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Kristianne:
Square Eyes by Anna Mill and Luke Jones
The Unwritten Book by Samantha Hunt
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders - Lawrence Weschler
...more
33min
October 24, 2022Room at the Top by John Braine
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 Room at the Top by John Braine, about an angry young man in a dirty old town.
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Stuff We Talked About
Life at the Top - the sequel!
Man at the Top - the BBC sequel (to the sequel?)
Simone Signoret
Graywolf Press
The Dorothy Project
Chris O'Leary's Patreon
Bluebeard - it was actually a mouse, not a cat!
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
American Midnight edited by Laird Hunt
Hand Drying in America by Ben Katchor
Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
Kristianne:
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà purchased at Symposium Books!
Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
Subdivision by J Robert Lennon bought at Exile in Bookville
The Wild Hunt - by Emma Seckel
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
In Bluebeard's Castle - George Steiner
...more
37min
September 19, 2022On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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 the Road by everyone's high school boyfriend, Jack Kerouac. We also talk about the new Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream which we just saw IN A MOVIE THEATRE shudder!
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Stuff We Talked About
Joyce Johnson's article on Kerouac and Robert Frank
Hal Chase/Chad King
Slate Star Codex review
NYT article about Moonage Daydream
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald
Kristianne:
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary (and the amazing movie starring Alec Guinness)
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Room at the Top - John Braine
...more
45min
August 29, 2022The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
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 Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, a slow, stately book about a very hot island.
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Stuff We Talked About
The movie version of The Leopard
The Last Leopard - biography of Guisippe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour
Guardian article on Lampedusa and Machievelli
NYT article on the 50th anniversary of the book
Here's the trailer for Moonage Daydream
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
The Dancing Plague by Gareth Fellowes
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
A Year with Swollen Appendages by Brian Eno
Kristianne:
The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova
What Song Did We Choose?
In Italian!
What's Up Next
On the Road - Jacky Kerouac
...more
40min
July 18, 2022 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 happens just off stage and there's a lot of talking about thinking.
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42min
June 20, 2022In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
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 Between the Sheets, a kind-of-sort-of creepy book of short stories by Ian McEwan.
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Stuff We Talked About
NY Times review of In Between the Sheets - spoiler: didn't like.
The Czar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
LA Weekly article on Bowie in L.A.
Pushing ahead of the Dame on Scary Monsters
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
Brain Bats from Venus by Greg Sadowski
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Kristianne:
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
The Heroine with 1000 Faces by Maria Tatar
How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelman
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard
...more
36min
May 30, 2022 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 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
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36min

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How many episodes does Bowie Book Club Podcast have?

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