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

3.8

3838 ratings

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about Bowie Book Club Podcast:

How many episodes does Bowie Book Club Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 126 episodes available.

Bowie Book Club Podcast episodes:

January 20, 2020The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
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 Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West, a grim fable of the darker side of Hollywood in the 30's - and reveal our books for 2020!
Subscribe!
iTunes | RSS |
Stitcher
Follow us! (Not in a creepy way)
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Web Presence
Stuff we Mentioned
The 1975 Movie Version
Advice to the Lovelorn - the "adaption" of Miss Lonelyhearts
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
Bowie's Berlin Books - we reviewed Berlin Alexanderplatz and Mr Norris Changes Trains last year.
And don't forget - let's bring back "phooey!" in 2020!
Our 2020 Book List
Chosen at the great Cafe Racer in Seattle
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
McTeague by Frank Norris
Cats by T.S. Eliot (just kidding - it's The Waste Land)
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Teenage by Jon Savage
The Street by Ann Petry
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg
The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
What's Up Next
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
What Song Did We Choose?
...more
39min
December 23, 2019The Bird Artist By Howard Norman
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 Bird Artist by Howard Norman, a tale from the frosty realm of Newfoundland, where women are women and men are mopey.
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Amazon | IndieBound
Subscribe!
iTunes | RSS |
Stitcher
Follow us! (Not in a creepy way)
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Web Presence
Stuff we Mentioned
The lighthouse at Witless Bay
Phillip (not Thomas) Marlowe
The Ghost Clause - Howard Norman's latest book.
Bowie's visit to Labrador
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller
Davidson Galleries in Seattle
Loganberry Books in Cleveland
Our book lists for the decade
Book lists are really hard to put together - this from books that we read over the last decade (not necessarily books that came out in the last 10 years).
Greg
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
Kristianne
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg
The Faraway Nearby by Rachel Solnit
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
What's Up Next
Day of the Locust by Nathanael West Amazon | IndieBound
What Song Did We Choose?
...more
43min
November 18, 2019The Insult by Rupert Thomson
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 Insult by Rupert Thomson, a book about pyschosis and the seedy underbelly of society that turns out to be two books in one, much to Greg's chagrin.
The Insult by Rupert Thomson Amazon | IndieBound
Subscribe!
iTunes | RSS |
Stitcher
Follow us! (Not in a creepy way)
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Web Presence
Stuff we Mentioned
Never Anyone But You
Author Interview in the Guardian
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Alnilam by James Dickey
Overstory by Richard Powers
Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
How I Ended Up On Bowie's Must Read List
@bowiesongs on "I'm Deranged". Also check out Chris' new Patreon!
Lost Highway
Hex Enduction Books and Records in Seattle
What's Up Next
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Amazon | IndieBound
What Song Did We Choose?
...more
32min
October 21, 2019The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
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 Dante's Inferno, which has been inspring haunted hayrides for centuries. Happy Halloween!
Inferno by Dante Amazon | IndieBound
Subscribe!
iTunes | RSS |
Stitcher
Follow us! (Not in a creepy way)
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Web Presence
Stuff we Mentioned
Vittorio Gassman reading Canto XXI
This is Halloween! This is Halloween!
Gustav Dore Illustrations for The Divine Comedy
The Twilight Zone
Virgil
What Dreams May Come)
Ozzy's Slippers
Set Model for Diamond Dogs tour
Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo” by Ary Scheffer
Rodin
RODAN also Rodan, one of Greg's favorite bands ever
Mystery Plays
Fratello Metallo - Misteri
@bowiesongs on Heathen
Never Anyone But You
What's Up Next
The Insult by Rupert Thomson Amazon | IndieBound
What Song Did We Choose?
...more
37min
September 23, 2019The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
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 Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens, a book-length legal argument that helpfully reminded us of our ignorance of history.
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Amazon | IndieBound
Subscribe!
iTunes | RSS |
Stitcher
Follow us! (Not in a creepy way)
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Web Presence
Stuff we Mentioned
Kissinger Peace Prize?? It's true!
Hitchens' book on Bill Clinton - No One Left to Lie To
Hitchens' takedown of Mother Theresa - The Missionary Position
The Satanic Verses controversy
Hitch-22 (Hitchen's autobiography)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Politico article about the lessons National Security Advisers can learn from Kissinger
What's Up Next
Inferno by Dante Amazon | IndieBound
What Song Did We Choose?
...more
29min
August 26, 2019Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
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 that WE REALLY REALLY LIKED - Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus.
Subscribe!
iTunes | RSS |
Stitcher
Follow us! (Not in a creepy way)
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Web Presence
Stuff we Mentioned
Angela Carter is best known for her collection of stories The Bloody Chamber
Company of Wolves (film)
Magic Toy Shop (film)
Angela Carter's BBC Radio plays
Sarah Waters on reading Nights at the Circus
the picaresque genre of fiction
Heartbreak Soup
What's Up Next
Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Amazon | IndieBound
What Song Did We Choose?
...more
33min
July 22, 2019 Kafka was the Rage by Anatole Broyard
This time we read Kafka Was the Rage - Anatole Broyard's unfinished memoir of life in Greenwich Village just after WWII, where everyone was an intellectual and sex had just been discovered.
...more
26min
June 17, 2019 Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
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 Metropolitan Life by Fran (not Annie) Lebowitz, a snarky little collection of vignettes about life in the big city way back when.
...more
35min
May 20, 2019 Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual by Éliphas Lévi
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 really weird D & D manual called Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual by Éliphas Lévi, half-poet, half-socialist, and all beard.
...more
35min
April 29, 2019 Sound of the City by Charlie Gillett
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 Sound of the City by musicologist and BBC DJ Charlie Gillett, a veritable bible for pop music nerds. Spoiler alert: Greg does not sing in this one (or any one, ever).
...more
24min

FAQs about Bowie Book Club Podcast:

How many episodes does Bowie Book Club Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 126 episodes available.

More shows like Bowie Book Club Podcast

The Book Review by The New York Times

The Book Review

3,875 Listeners

This American Life by This American Life

This American Life

90,241 Listeners

Fresh Air by NPR

Fresh Air

38,077 Listeners

Selected Shorts by Symphony Space

Selected Shorts

2,847 Listeners

The Moth by The Moth

The Moth

27,343 Listeners

Stuff You Should Know by iHeartPodcasts

Stuff You Should Know

78,168 Listeners

the memory palace by Nate DiMeo

the memory palace

6,871 Listeners

The Sporkful by Dan Pashman

The Sporkful

3,924 Listeners

99% Invisible by Roman Mars

99% Invisible

26,253 Listeners

The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The New Yorker Radio Hour

6,692 Listeners

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond by Pushkin Industries

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

4,100 Listeners

The Bulwark Podcast by The Bulwark

The Bulwark Podcast

11,886 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,473 Listeners

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart by Comedy Central

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

10,381 Listeners

Inside Trump's Head by The Daily Beast, Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles

Inside Trump's Head

341 Listeners