Bowie Book Club Podcast

Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

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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 took a little wander through

Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall and read about a lot of saints with swords (sometimes stuck in their heads)

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    Stuff We Talked About
    • James Hall's obituary in the Guardian
    • Article about the first English dictionaries
    • Mountweazel!
    • The random paintings we attempted to decipher.
    • Our episode about David Bomberg.
    • We didn't talk about it, but here's Nick Cave's handwritten dictionary h/t to
      • Austin Kleon's excellent recent blog post on dictionaries
      What Are We Reading?
      • Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
      • The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner
      • Bleak House by Charlie Dickens (as always)
      • Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
      • The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
      • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
      • Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
        • What Song Did We Choose?
        What's Up Next
        • Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
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