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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a jazzy tale of the very American art of self-invention.
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Stuff We Talked About
BBC article - "The World's Most Misunderstood Book"
Ole Mel Bragg's "In Our Time" podcast episode on Gatsby
Our episode on Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason
interview about the origins of 'Nick' - here's the novel at bookshop.org
an excerpt in the Paris Review from Wesley Morris' new introduction to Gatsby.
Our episode on The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
What Else Did We Read This Month?
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Gormenghast Trilogy by Melvyn Peake
- The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
- Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry