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:

November 23, 2020 The Street by Ann Petry
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 Street by Ann Petry, a harsh but gripping tale, which **almost** led to the worst song choice in the history of this podcast.
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39min
October 26, 2020A People's History of the United States
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 People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, who's not really down with the SYSTEM, MAAAAAAN.
(And apologies for the audio issues at the end - it's the Man trying to keep us down!)
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Stuff we Mentioned
Kirkus Review of A People's History
The amazing These Truths by Jill Lepore
An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Studs Terkel's oral histories: Working and The Good War
McNally Jackson Books - buy books from your local bookstore!!
TruthOut - alternate news source
Kristianne read Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo this month
Greg read (and loved) The Good Lord Bird by James McBride this month, who also wrote Deacon King Kong, which Greg read (and loved) earlier this year.
What's Up Next
The Street by Ann Petry
What Song Did We Choose?
and here's notes on Bowie's record "Reality" from our bible - Pushing Ahead of the Dame
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37min
September 28, 2020 Teenage by Jon Savage
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 Teenage by Jon Savage and you JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE'RE FEELING ABOUT IT OK? /slams bedroom door/
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54min
August 24, 2020The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, which is really not like Dead Poets Society at all.
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Never Apologize, Never Explain - Guardian article about the book by James Woods.
England's Dreaming by Jon Savage - not Lipstick Traces which is by Greil Marcus
Red Emma's bookstore in Baltimore
Chris O'Leary (of Pushing Ahead of the Damefame) has great writing up on his Patreon
Greg read Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Kristianne read (or listened to) The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Kristianne also read Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
What's Up Next
Teenage by Jon Savage
What Song Did We Choose?
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42min
July 20, 2020 Black Boy by Richard Wright
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 Black Boy, Richard Wright's searing story of growing up in the Jim Crow south and his further self-education as a young man in Chicago and his further self-education as a young man in Chicago.
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47min
June 22, 2020 The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White
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 Life and Times of Little Richard - the Authorized Biography by Charles "Dr. Rock" White, which contains lots of scatalogical pranks, sermons and stories of debauchery from one of the wildest voices ever. Rock and roll.

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44min
May 25, 2020Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
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
Sexual Personae by Camillia Paglia, which left us feeling a bit...cthonic.
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Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
Bacchus by Eddie Campbell
Monstress comics series
Bowie's workflow for The Next Day
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
The Case of the Missing Men
What's Up Next
The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White
What Song Did We Choose?

Camille meets Kristianne!
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39min
April 20, 2020The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The last known photo of the great poet.

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 Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, and tried to talk about anything else beside the poem (and you know...that other thing that's going on).
Apologies again for the recording weirdness! We're such a bunch of fireworms (that'll make more sense after you listen to this one). We'll get it together at some point.
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From Ritual to Romance
How the Wasteland Sounds Now
We didn't mention this (Greg spaced), but the British library has a cool webpage about the influences on The Waste Land.
The source of the whole green face powder thing - an article about "Low" and T.S. Eliots influences.
TS Eliot, midfield enforcer, tamed by marriage
TS Eliot was a bad boyfriend
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock
Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver
Post-Colonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio
Degrees of Grey in Phillipsburg by Richard Hugo
The Hugo House in Seattle
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
Did Bowie Pinch a Cactus from T.S. Eliot? - well, did he?
How to Do Nothing
OMG, Alec Guiness is the best
What's Up Next
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
What Song Did We Choose?
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37min
March 23, 2020 McTeague by Frank Norris
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 McTeague by Frank Norris, which is surprisingly not about a rogue cop who's always getting kicked off the force and reinstated because he's just too damn good out on those streets.

Apologies for the sound quality - we're still figuring out how to do this whole remote thing!
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45min
February 25, 2020The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
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 wide-ranging screed on the intellectual wasteland of current American culture - Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason. And Greg reveals his ignorance of fairly recent presidential elections. Fun! #tuesdaygoths
Buy This Months Book at Bookshop
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Stuff we Mentioned
Roderick's Chamber
Telling Lies
The Bloody Mary Incident
PC Jr
Max Headroom
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstader
Educated
popped collars
In the Land of Self Defeat
Why We're Polarized
These Truths
1619 Project
Elliot Bay Book Company
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Foucault's Pendulum
Master and Commander
F&W Classical Music
James Michener
We didn't mention it, but the James Michener Art Museum is pretty rad
Our Herzog episode
Lori Goldston - the greatest, seriously.
The Yellow House
Inland
What's Up Next
McTeague!! - you're off the force!!
What Song Did We Choose?
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49min

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How many episodes does Bowie Book Club Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 126 episodes available.

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