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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The podcast currently has 128 episodes available.

Bowie Book Club Podcast episodes:

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
April 25, 2022Money by Martin Amis
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 Money by Martin Amis - the literary equivalent of watching someone fall down thousands of flights of stairs and wondering why you're laughing so hard.
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Stuff We Talked About
Steve Martin interviews Martin Amis
Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim
NYT review of Money that coins the phrase "The New Unpleasantness"
Germaine Greer interview with Amis
Our episodes on connected books: Vile Bodies, Day of the Locust and (maybe?) Bicameral Mind
Martin Amis' review of Bowie in 1973
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
Maybe the People Would be the Times by Lucy Sante
LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin
Downtown by Pete Hamill
Secret Identity by Alex Segura
Kristianne:
*Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (progress... it'll be awhile...)
Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
...more
36min
March 21, 2022Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom by Nik Cohn
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 Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom (or something like that) a intensely jaded look at the first couple decades of rock music from legendary writer Nik Cohn.
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Stuff We Talked About
Our episode on Teenage by Jon Savage
Arfur by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Tommy, and super expensive)
I Am The Still the Greatest, Says Johnny Angelo by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Ziggy Stardust?)
Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night (the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever - and somewhat made up)
Rock Dreams by Nik Cohn and Guy Peellaert
Nik Cohn is nice to Bowie - and mean to the Rolling Stones
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
Devil House by John Darnielle
Dracula Cha Cha Cha by Kim Newman
The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber and Wengrow
Kristianne
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Money - Martin Amis
...more
33min
February 28, 2022The Iliad by Homer
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 Homer Tarantino's gory classic of bromanticism - The Iliad
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Stuff We Talked About
We read different translations of this here gruesome volume - Kristianne had the Robert Fagles and Greg read the Carolyn Alexander
Want to understand the Iliad? This is the only infographic you need
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The War that Killed Achilles by Carolyn Alexander
Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
Our ridiculous episode about The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Shakespeare's Second Best Bet
The Myths and Legends Podcast
Christa Wolf's book on Cassandra that we should've read!
What Are We Reading? (That Isn't Related to the Iliad)
Greg:
Devil House by John Darnielle (also Wolf in White Van and Universal Harvester)
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn
...more
44min
January 24, 2022Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders
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 series of connected stories circling the post-beat, pre-hippie world of Lower Mahattan in Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders. Join us for a hour or two at the Total Assault Cantina!
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Stuff We Talked About
Peace Eye Bookstore
Herb Caen
Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side
Our episode on Peking Story
Our episode on Kafka was the Rage
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (Greg cannot resist the opportunity to plug this book)
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
A Year With Swollen Appendanges by Brian Eno
The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
Kristianne:
Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
Hell of A Book by Jason Mott
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
The Iliad - Homer, but not THAT Homer
...more
43min
January 10, 2022Our 2022 Books
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.
We survived another year, and that means we get to dust off the ole Choosenator and see what new books it brings us. This time we had a little canine assistance - our trusty guide led us through the wilds of Seattle (ok, through quiet residential neighborhoods) and pointed us at the correct numbers for the books for 2022!
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Our 2022 Books
The Iliad - Homer Simpson
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn
Money - Martin Amis
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan
Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard
The Leopard - Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
Room at the Top - John Braine
On the Road - Jacky Kerouac
In Bluebeard's Castle - George Steiner
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders - Lawrence Weschler
A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes
Our 2021 Favorites
Kristianne:
The Enchanted
Tale for the Time Being
The Anthropocene Review and The Book of Delights
Piranesi
Greg:
A Little Devil in America
Gormenghast
Tadanori Yokoo
Piranesi
The Dakota Winters and The Perfume Burned His Eyes
Other Stuff
Kristanne listened to House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door while walking her dog.
Greg couldn't remember that Sir Derek Jacobi read the audio version of Hawksmoor - here's our episode about that book
Buy records and books from Hex Enduction Records and Books in Lake City, Seattle. Even if you're not in Seattle, they have a giant Discogs page - they're good folks with good stuff!
Coming Up
We'll start things off next month with a relatively new, very modern tome - The Iliad. See y'all then!
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36min
December 20, 2021 1984 by George Orwell
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 George Orwell's classic work of numerology, 1984.
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39min
November 22, 2021The Quest for Christa T
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 Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf, a melancholy elegy that really got on the wrong side of the East German censors, for some reason.
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Stuff We Talked About
Christa Wolf's first book Divided Heaven
Mister T
What Are We Reading?
Kristianne:
The Enchanted by Rene Denfield
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Greg:
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
All the Marvels by Douglas Wolk
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
1984
...more
34min
October 25, 2021The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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 Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, one of our favorites on the list - a fairy tale that careens through the Moscow of the 1920's, and is otherwise impossible to describe accurately. In the spirit of inaccuracy, Greg got several names and facts wrong in this episodes, which he blames on g-g-g-g-ghosts.
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Stuff We Talked About
The Soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ
Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death - record by James Blackshaw (Greg got the name wrong)
Love Is The Nessage, The Message Is Death - video installation by Arthur Jafa (Greg got the name wrong here too)
What Are We Reading?
Kristianne:
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
Camille by Sheridan LeFanu
Greg:
Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr (pseudonym for Alice Sheldon - Greg got her story wrong too!)
The Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker, edited by Leslie Klinger
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
What Song Did We Choose?
Greg won the coin toss, so here's the SKELETON DANCE!
What's Up Next
The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
...more
42min

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How many episodes does Bowie Book Club Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 128 episodes available.

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