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 Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, a book that has launched a thousand dorm room conversations.
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Stuff We Talked About
- Kurt's appearance in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield*
- He's in a coffee ad with Bowie too!
- excerpt from On Vonnegut's Karass vs. Granfalloon
the kids who read Jack Kerouac and listened to David Bowie and smoked cigarettes behind the bleachers, where they hung out on the way to protesting the Vietnam War
What Are We Reading?
Kristianne:
- The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday - Sharon Blackie
- If Women Rose Rooted - Sharon Blackie
- The Centaur's Wife - Amanda Leduc
- Proust, of course
Greg:
- Stay Alive - Ian Buruma
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Katherine Anne Porter
- The Plotinus - Rikki Ducornet
- Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
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