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Bowie Book Club Podcast Greg Miller & Kristianne Huntsberger
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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. They decided to stop mucking around and actually get some reading done - from the list of books that he loved.
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Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey
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 Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey - interviews with foundational artists of soul music asthey deal with aging, and (in the case of Screaming Jay Hawkins) serve drinks out of a skull or something.
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Bowie Book Club Podcast - Private Eye
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 Private Eye, a half-serious, half-silly
British political magazine that is the ultimate i IYKYK. -
Bowie Book Club Podcast - Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
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. -
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
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 Hidden
Persuaders
by Vance Packard, a quaint little preview of the non-stop psychological prodding we endure now.
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Stuff We Talked About
Salon article on the book
article on Bowie's brief spell as an ad man in The Drum
our episode on A People's Tragedy
What Are We Reading
Greg:
The Pickwick Papers (of course!) by Charles Dickens
Rim of Morning by William Sloane
Gone to the Wolves by John Wray
Kristianne:
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
Julia by Sandra Newman
Our Best of 2023!
Greg:
Fingersmith in a 3-way split with White Noise and 42nd Parallel
Dreaming as Delerium by J. Allen Hobson
The House with a Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Kristianne:
also Fingersmith!
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott
East of Eden by Johnny Steinbeck
Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler -
Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
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 Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto - if you like art, philosophy and the philosophy of art, you might get through this a little easier than we did.
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Bowie Book Club Podcast - Strange People by Frank Edwards
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 Strange People by Frank
Edwards, a rundown of all the freaks, geeks and mentalists you'll ever want
to encounter.