Bowie Book Club Podcast

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

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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 Darkness at

Noon by Arthur Koestler, a tale of human pyschology under duress that makes a fitting end to the Russian books that
Bowie had on his list.

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    Stuff We Talked About
    • Orwell's essay on Koestler and Darkness at Noon
    • The other "Russian" books on the list: A People's Tragedy, Master and Margarita, Into the Whirlwind, Coast of Utopia and (of course) Octobriana
    • Pushing Ahead of the Dame on the song we chose (through the Cranial Scalding method) - "What's Really Happening"
      • What Are We Reading (and when and where)?

      Greg:

      • The Chuckling Whatsit by Richard Sala
      • Circe by Madeline Miller
      • Historia by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez et al (Greg managed to butcher both the name of the book and the author! Ugh)

        • Kristianne:

        • Low Moon by JASON
        • Starling House by Alix Harrow
        • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
          • What Song Did We Choose?
          What's Up Next

          The last few of the Bowie list!

          • Private Eye - we're working on this next.
          • Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey
          • Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
          • A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno (if we can find a copy we can afford!]

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