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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald, a jazzy tale of the very American art of self-invention.

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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a jazzy tale of the very American art of self-invention.


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Stuff We Talked About

BBC article - "The World's Most Misunderstood Book"

Ole Mel Bragg's "In Our Time" podcast episode on Gatsby

Our episode on Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason

interview about the origins of 'Nick' - here's the novel at bookshop.org

an excerpt in the Paris Review from Wesley Morris' new introduction to Gatsby.

Greil Marcus on Gatsby

Jesymn Ward on Gatsby

Gatsby, Liberace and Bowie

Our episode on The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

What Else Did We Read This Month?

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Gormenghast Trilogy by Melvyn Peake
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

What Song Did We Choose?

What's Up Next

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

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