The Stranger by Albert Camus

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 sat in a cafe, drinking free refill after free refill, perfected our looks of total ennui and read The Stranger by Albert Camus

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 sat in a cafe, drinking free refill after free refill, perfected our looks of total ennui and read The Stranger by Albert Camus.

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Stuff We Talked About

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Looking for the Stranger by Alice Kaplan
The Mersault Investigations
An article about the Stranger in the New Republic
An article about Camus in the New Yorker
Another New Yorker article about the first word of The Stranger
What's in a title - an article about the title of the Stranger in the Guardian
The book that ties the whole list together
The absurd in Bowie's world
My hovercraft is full of eels

What Are We Reading?

Greg

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James and finally done with Black Leopard, Red Wolf!
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner and Telex from Cuba too.
The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash
The Sheltering Sky by Paulieboy Bowles

Kristianne

Black Hole by Charles Burns
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Loop by Brenda Lozaro

What Song Did We Choose?

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