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.
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Stuff We Talked About
The Third Reich by Bolano - our second choice!
Our beatnik episodes - On the Road, Tales of Beatnik Glory and Kafka was the Rage
What Are We Reading
Greg:
- The Gadfly - Ethel Lilian Voynich
- Nada - Jean-Patrick Manchette
- Bringing up the Bodies - Hillary Mantel
Kristianne:
- The Living Stones: Cornwall - Ithell Colquhoun
- Proust's Duchess - Caroline Weber
- Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
- Within a Budding Grove - also Marcel
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
Grendel by John Gardner