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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.

Bowie Book Club Podcast Greg Miller & Kristianne Huntsberger

    • Arts

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.

    Orlando by Virginia Woolf

    Orlando by Virginia Woolf

    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 Orlando by Virginia Woolf, a book that essentially proves that David Bowie and Tilda Swinton are one person.

    • 39 min
    A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno

    A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno

    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 (sort of) A Grave for a Dolphin by Ally Teeth (or Alberto Denti, Duke of Pirajno, if you must), a story about a manic pixie dream fish and the marine biologist (at least that's what AI thinks) who loved her.

    • 56 min
    Zanoni by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

    Zanoni by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

    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 Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, an overheated occult pot-boiler that manages to keep the hot esoteric gobbletygook flying for over 400 pages! Spoiler alert: Greg wrote this description and it may (does) not reflect the views of the other half of this podcast.

    • 47 min
    Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey

    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.

    • 40 min
    Bowie Book Club Podcast - Private Eye

    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.

    • 49 min
    Bowie Book Club Podcast - Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

    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.

    • 43 min

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