The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

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 Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, a tale that will have you looking askance at local tween boys for a long time coming. Also, Greg says “or whatever” 7 MILLION TIMES this episode - and stick around for Kristianne’s artistic renditions of pure snark after the credits.

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• David Bomberg

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Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

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In this episode, Kristianne and Greg cough and splutter through Bruce Chatwin’s look at Australia, its indigenous peoples, and our nomadic heritage and almost get in a fist fight. The common theme of our incipient old age continues through this episode too - apparently it’s something we’re really worried about.

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• Phinney Ridge Books

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Coming Up Next

• Wyndham Lewis' Blast manifesto - the manifesto for Blast - the short lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in the early 20th century.

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