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The Stranger by Albert Camus
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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?
What's Up Next
101 episodes
Manage episode 301087475 series 1987768
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.
Subscribe!
Follow us! (Not in a creepy way)
Our Bookshop
Visit our lists on bookshop.org and help support the podcast (and independent bookstores too!)
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?
What's Up Next
101 episodes
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