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June 30, 2025
Greg Miller
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

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 Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, a story of large glasses of gin, otherworldly chemistry and, why not, fake eyebrows too.

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
May 26, 2025
Greg Miller
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov

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 Gift by Vladimir Nabokov, a multi-level marketing scheme to get you into an emigre's state of mind.

The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
April 21, 2025
Greg Miller
Nova Express by William Burroughs

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 Nova Express (https://bookshop.org/a/105/9780802122087) by William Burroughs - maybe it's science fiction? Maybe it's a spell to thwart mind control ? Maybe it's just not meant to be read?

Nova Express by William Burroughs
March 24, 2025
Greg Miller
Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich

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 Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich, a survey about how people have collectively let their hair down over the past few centuries.

Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich
February 17, 2025
Greg Miller
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

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 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, which is about how awful it was to travel before you could use noise-canceling headphones to eliminate any possibility of getting into a conversation with someone about murder.

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Greg Miller
April 5, 2021

Mini Episode! How To Read a Dictionary

Greg Miller
April 5, 2021
Mini Episode! How To Read a Dictionary

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 attempted to cobble together a plan to read Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by James A. Hall.

Greg Miller
March 22, 2021

Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Greg Miller
March 22, 2021
Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

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 Interviews with Francis Bacon, a beautifully constructed cut and paste job from the noted art critic David Sylvester.

Greg Miller
February 22, 2021

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Greg Miller
February 22, 2021
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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