Bowie Book Club Podcast
Episodes
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Backstage Passes by Angela Bowie
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Egon Schiele - The Paintings
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Nova Express by William Burroughs
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Idiot by Fydor Dostoevksy
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Orlando by Virginia Woolf
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti (and the end of Season One!)
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Private Eye
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Strange People by Frank Edwards
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Writers at Work by the Paris Review
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of the **Bowie Book Club**, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned s...
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Beano
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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White Noise by Don DeLillo
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Room at the Top by John Braine
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Money by Martin Amis
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom by Nik Cohn
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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The Iliad by Homer
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Our 2022 Books
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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1984 by George Orwell
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The Quest for Christa T
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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On Having No Head by D.E Harding
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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English Journey by JB Priestly
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Tadanori Yokoo
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Mini Episode! How To Read a Dictionary
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Our Books for 2021!
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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The Street by Ann Petry
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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A People's History of the United States
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Teenage by Jon Savage
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Black Boy by Richard Wright
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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McTeague by Frank Norris
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of the **Bowie Book Club**, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supre...
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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The Bird Artist By Howard Norman
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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The Insult by Rupert Thomson
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Kafka was the Rage by Anatole Broyard
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This time we read Kafka Was the Rage - Anatole Broyard's unfinished memoir of life in Greenwich Village just after WWII, where everyone was an intelle...
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme s...
Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual by Éliphas Lévi
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Sound of the City by Charlie Gillett
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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April Gossip
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Silence by John Cage
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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March Gossip
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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February Gossip
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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2019 Book List - Live from Podcon2!
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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Viz
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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Raw by Art Speigelman and Francoise Mouly
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme s...
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This time we read the Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels, a surprisingly accessible book about the discovery of documents from the very foundation of C...
June Miscellany
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This time we're catching up on what we're reading, what magical things ONLY KRISTIANNE gets to see, and kvetch about ebooks and audio books.
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This time we read Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar - the story of a dreamer in Northern England who just can't keep his stories straight.