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 Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis, which turns out to be more than just a vehicle for the majestic acting of Harry Dean Stanton!
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 a book about a muppet (?) monster and his tour of the philosophical hot spots, Grendel by John Gardner.
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 Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano - a far-ranging tome about poets who never seem to write any poetry, but do a lot of other crazy stuff.
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 a book meant to entrance budding existentialists with its gloominess - The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Amazon | IndieBound |OpenLibrary
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 elegiac tale with several titles that ended up being called Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China, by David Kidd.
Find it at: Amazon |IndieBound | New York Review of Books
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 Pulitzer-winning picaresque portrait of a very disturbing denizen of New Orleans: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
Amazon |IndieBound |Open Library
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd
(we also kind of chose this)
