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 Money by Martin Amis - the literary equivalent of watching someone fall down thousands of flights of stairs and wondering why you're laughing so hard.
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Stuff We Talked About
Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim
NYT review of Money that coins the phrase "The New Unpleasantness"
Germaine Greer interview with Amis
Our episodes on connected books: Vile Bodies, Day of the Locust and (maybe?) Bicameral Mind
Martin Amis' review of Bowie in 1973
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
- Maybe the People Would be the Times by Lucy Sante
- LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin
- Downtown by Pete Hamill
- Secret Identity by Alex Segura
Kristianne: *Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (progress... it'll be awhile...)
- Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
- Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes