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July 21, 2025
Greg Miller
Egon Schiele - The Paintings

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 Egon Schiele - The Paintings, a collection of works by a very proflic narcissist who packed a lot of splayed figures and elongated fingers into his brief life!

Egon Schiele - The Paintings
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
Greg Miller
October 21, 2024

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Greg Miller
October 21, 2024
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

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 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol a picaresque novel of a grifter being grifty in Old Russia.

Greg Miller
September 30, 2024

Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger

Greg Miller
September 30, 2024
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger

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 Hollywood Babylon a cruel and carnal compilation of old Hollywood tragedies written by Kenneth Anger, who apparently shares our disdain for thorough research!

Greg Miller
August 26, 2024

Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Greg Miller
August 26, 2024
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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 Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, a hard-boiled story of mysterious realms, stiff drinks and super-powered artifacts.

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