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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January 11, 2021Our Books for 2021!
Bowie Book Club Podcast - Our Books for 2021

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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 chose our books for 2021, in the great outdoors, and in our typical shambolic fashion!
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Our 2021 Books
Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall
Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
English Journey by J.B. Priestley
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Stranger by Albert Camus
On Having No Head by Douglass Harding
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984
Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
What's Up Next
We'll be talking about Mystery Train by Greil Marcus later this month
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20min
December 28, 2020Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg
Bowie Book Club Podcast - Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

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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 Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, a memoir of one incredibly strong woman's survival in Stalin's Reign of Terror.
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Stuff we Mentioned
The much harder to find second installment of Ginzburg's memoir.
The recent NY Times article about this area of Siberia and how climate change is affecting it
so many articles about Bowie's trans-Siberian trip
here's the fancy way to travel by train across Siberian these days.
Our episode on the very real and not fake Communist comic book Octobriana
Pushing Ahead of the Dame on Wild is the Wind
Our Favorite 2020 Books
We both agreed that that The Street was our favorite Bowie Book of the year - check out our episode on it.
We also agreed that Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was in our top list. Other than that (in no order):
Kristianne
Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Bodies and The Mirror and the Light
Girl, Woman, Other
Their Eyes Were Watching God
These Truths
Greg
Deacon King Kong
The Overstory
The Yellow House
Hamnet
Washington Black
The Essex Serpent - the author also wrote Melmoth, which we couldn't remember despite our best efforts.
What's Up Next
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
What Song Did We Choose?
and maybe, just for the holiday season:
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49min
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
Bowie Book Club - A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

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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 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
Bowie Book Club - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

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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
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, which is really not like Dead Poets Society at all.
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Stuff we Mentioned
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
BBC Podcast - Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

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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
Sexual Personae by Camillia Paglia, which left us feeling a bit...cthonic.
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Stuff we Mentioned
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
Bowie Book Club Podcast - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

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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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Stuff we Mentioned
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

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