The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Bowie Book Club Podcast
English - August 29, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 90.6 MB - ★★★★ - 28 ratingsBooks Arts Music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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 we read The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa,
a slow, stately book about a very hot island a long time ago.
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 Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, a slow, stately book about a very hot island.
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Stuff We Talked About
The movie version of The Leopard
The Last Leopard - biography of Guisippe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour
Guardian article on Lampedusa and Machievelli
NYT article on the 50th anniversary of the book
Here's the trailer for Moonage Daydream
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
The Dancing Plague by Gareth Fellowes
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
A Year with Swollen Appendages by Brian Eno
Kristianne:
The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova
What Song Did We Choose?
In Italian!
What's Up Next
On the Road - Jacky Kerouac