BookClub

BookClub, 3 months ago to bookclub

What other titles do you think SHOULD HAVE been on Bowie’s book list?

We’re making a list of books we think could have made the list or books we wished had been on the list.
We'll be randomly selecting from this list for the second season of the #BowieBookClub Podcast.

https://bookshop.org/lists/book-list-for-bowie
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BookClub, 3 months ago to bookclub

This month on #BowieBookClub we read ‘Darkness at Noon’ by Arthur Koestler, a tale of human pyschology under duress that makes a fitting conclusion to the Russian books that Bowie included on his reading list.

We also reveal the order of the last four books (!!!) and talk ask you what else we should add to the list of books that SHOUD HAVE been on Bowie’s list.
http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2024/1/22/darkness-at-noon-by-arthur-koestler
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BookClub, 5 months ago to aitools

This month on #BowieBookClub we’re reading about men who sold the world in Vance Packard’s “Hidden Persuaders”
#advertising #manwhosoldtheworld #davidbowie @bookstodon #bookclub

BookClub, 5 months ago to bookclub

Get your berets and espresso cups! This month on #BowieBookClub we read an art history class in a single book: Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto.

http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2023/11/27/beyond-the-brillo-box-by-arthur-c-danto

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BookClub, 6 months ago to bookclub

Our #bowiebookclub pick this month is ‘Beyond the Brillo Box’ by Arthur Danto. A crash course in contemporary art theory.
#artbook #arthistory #bookclub #andywarhol #brillobox #amreading @bookstodon #popart

BookClub, 6 months ago to bookstodon

This month on the #BowieBookClub we read Strange People, by Frank Edwards, a rundown of all the freaks, geeks and mentalists you'll ever want to encounter.
#spookyseasonreads
#believeitornot #strangerthanfiction @bookstodon
http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2023/10/30/strange-people-by-frank-edwards

BookClub, 6 months ago to bookstodon

This month’s #BowieBookClub pick, ‘Strange People’ offers some great #halloweencostume ideas.
#itsinabook
#strangebuttrue really?
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BookClub, 7 months ago to bookstodon

This month on the #BowieBookClub we read ‘Writers at Work: The First Series,’ a compendium of interviews with writers that proves to be as dazzling as a round of George Plimpton's Video Falconry, which we discussed along with elaborate CIA fronts and the burning question: writing while sitting or laying down, which is better? Tea or coffee?
#authorinterview #craft #read @bookstodon

http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2023/9/25/writers-at-work-by-the-paris-review

BookClub, 7 months ago to bookstodon

The #TrumanCapote interview in our #BowieBookClub pick, “Writers at Work,” is an indulgent romp: “I intend to have footloose escapades as long as the frontiers stay open,” says the boy genius.
He comes across much more likable than #Faulkner does earlier in the collection.
#parisreview #authorinterviews @bookstodon

BookClub, 8 months ago to books

This month on #BowieBookClub we read Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. - Is it a #novel? A collection of #shortstories? An unrelenting parade of bleakness in a pre-genetrification borough-no artisanal yogurt in sight!)?
@bookstodon #amreading #books
http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2023/8/26/last-exit-to-brooklyn-by-hubert-selby-jr

BookClub, 8 months ago to workersrights

Our #bowiebookclub pick this month is the very non-feel-good novel/short stories “Last Exit to Brooklyn.” By Hubert Selby Jr.
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#dragstory #labor #darkbooks #reading #bookclub

BookClub, 9 months ago to comics

One of the most interesting discoveries we made while reading #Beano for the #BowieBookClub last month was that #DennistheMenace debuted nearly simultaneously in the UK and US but as totally different little terrors.
#themoreyouknow
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BookClub, 9 months ago to comics

This month on the #BowieBookClub we read #TheBeano, a British comic that taught the fundamentals of anarchy to the youth of the UK decades before Johnny Rotten gave his first snarl.
http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2023/7/22/the-beano
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BookClub, 9 months ago to comics

We’re getting in touch with our inner kid while reading the #BowieBookClub pick this month. #TheBeano
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BookClub, 10 months ago to bookstodon

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Visit our #BowieBookClub #bookshop page for #bookrecommendations from the #Bowie list and beyond. Purchases support #indiebookstores across the country + you get FREE SHIPPING JULY 11-12th!
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https://bookshop.org/shop/bowiebookclubpodcast

BookClub, 10 months ago to bookstodon

One of our previous #BowieBookClub picks, #InColdBlood by #TrumanCapote popped up today on #LitHub
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"Truman Capote became the “it” author of his generation after publishing In Cold Blood. That wasn’t necessarily a good thing."

https://lithub.com/how-truman-capote-was-destroyed-by-his-own-masterpiece

BookClub, 10 months ago to books

This month on #BowieBookClub we read "The 42nd Parallel" by John #DosPassos, a big sweeping tale of America at the turn of the 20th century, including door-to-door book salesmen getting chased by a farmer with a shotgun, which happened all the time back then. #bookclub #Bowie #bookstodon @bookstodon #reading
http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2023/6/26/the-42nd-parallel-by-john-dos-passos