Maldoror by Comte De Lautreamont

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" Malordor by Comte De Lautreamont a book that's steeped in the most malevolent of violet prose.

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Stuff we Mentioned

• Roderick's Chamber

• Christian Death

• Pitchfork review of Malordor by Erik Friedlander

• black metal lyric textural analysis

• The Damned - New Rose - the greatest song ever.

• Andre Breton

• Lynda Barry's Illustrated Syllabus

• William Kennedy's Albany Cycle

• Chants of Maldoror

• Pushing Ahead of the Dame

• The Complete David Bowie

• The Head of the Church of Satan lives in Poughkeepsie NY

What's Up Next

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

What Song Did We Choose?

We're not going to link to our original picks - we love you too much. This is what we ended up with - BOOGIE BOWIE!

Herzog by Saul Bellow

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 have a special guest - musician and author extraordinaire Franz Nicolay, who's got a musical rap sheet as long as your arm and a fantastic new book about touring in Eastern Europe that you should get your eyes and mind around now. He's helping us delve the depths of a middle-aged male psyche of the mid-sixties in Saul Bellow's Herzog - what great insights and baseless nattering will we indulge in this time?

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• Holy crap, Franz has played a lot of music

• The Adventures of Augie March

• Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth

• Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

• "It was all just talk,” Carlos Alomar has said. “You have to remember he’s a pseudo intellectual. He is what he reads, and at the time, he was reading so much bullshit.”

• "a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex"

• Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo

Franz's Books of Large Influence

• Labyrinths by Jose Luis BOrges

• If On A Winters Night, A Traveller by Italo Calvino

• Pale Fire by Vladdy Nabokov

What's Up Next?

Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

"Les Chants de Maldoror is based on a character called Maldoror, a figure of unrelenting evil who has forsaken God and mankind. The book combines a violent narrative with vivid and often surrealistic imagery."

• Franz is speaking at the MoPOP Conference in Seattle on the "Punk and Disorderly" panel

• And you really want to get this book:

What Song Did We Choose?

Second Choice

Lolita by Vladamir Nabakov

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 creepy, creepy man with a creepy, creepy plan, Lolita by Vladamir Nabakov.

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Stuff We Mentioned

• Don't Stand So Close to Me

• Minneapolis' largest independent bookstore, Magers and Quinn

• The Sopranos

• Florence Sally Horner, whose abduction was mentioned in Lolita (and was said to be the inspiration for the book)

• Reading Lolita in Tehran

• Lori Mattix

• Video Music Channel interview with lots of David Bowie hitting on the interviewer.

• Labyrinth

• The Hunger

What's Up Next?

• Herzog by Saul Bellow

What Song Did We Choose?