February Catch Up Episode: More Hawksmoor and More!

In this episode, we gab about Hawksmoor and the next books coming up for #bowiebookclub and from our own list. And Greg apologizes a lot too.

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Stuff we Mentioned

• Plenty of good ideas about the end of Hawksmoor - check out #bowiebookclub and our twitter page to catch up on the conversations.

  • Is Dyer out of time and still murdery? (@KJBolden / @MikePBlanchard)
  • Do the murders run on a 400-year cycle? (@rotblot)
  • Maybe London itself is the evil force and Dyer is just a tool? (@Martin65)
  • Everyone (well, Greg, at least) agrees that this is very Twin-Peaksy. Did Bowie introduce Lynch to the book? (@mr_duffin)

• Bowie talking about Hawksmoor! (@maccazgrl)

• Who would you cast as Hawksmoor? Idris Alba is a wise choice (@JohnF80174692). We went for Anthony Hopkins as Dyer (kind of a gimme, but you know.)

• the London Review of Books has a great wrap of the book and the conversations around it on their blog.

• Lots of new song ideas:

  • A Foggy Day in London (@I_Joanna_I)
  • I thought of Outside a lot, also the Man Who Sold The World, and I can hear Quicksand playing over the closing credits. Side two of Heroes fits nice also. (@eclecticbob) (we nicked Quicksand for our closing credits, thanks!)
  • Got to be Width of a Circle (@Typo47221555)
  • Agree with those who say Outside, and for me the “song” is the Algeria Touchshriek interlude. (@ThePleiades1)
  • Lyrics from Blackstar - “spirit rose and stepped aside…another took his place” (@opusfive)

And of course:

tis a pity she was a hawk pic.twitter.com/7EqMeYjtmm

— Crayon to Crayon (@CrayonToCrayon) January 25, 2018

• Peter Ackroyd has a new book coming out in May - Queer City

• If you're in the mood for creepy minimalist ambient music, check out the Hawksmoor episode of Greg's other podcast Too Tired to Say Anything

• We had a nice chat on Bookhub last week about Bowie and books

• To be clear, Ian Sinclair is NOT DEAD. (whew). Greg just finished his Ghost Milk and is excited to start The Last London once his brain recovers.

• Derek Jacobi doesn't believe in Shakespeare - he may be right

• The next #bowiebookclub book is The Fire Next Time, an incredible, powerful book that we discussed last summer. Really looking forward to revisiting it. Folks outside the US are still looking for a copy if you want to help out.

• We're reading some other books for Black History Month:

  • John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead - Kristianne is listening to his Underground Railroad too.
  • We Were Eight Years in Power
  • The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward
  • This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America Book by Morgan Jerkins

• We forgot to mention it on the podcast, but @joanna__pearson put together some awesome Bowie Book Club badges with all proceeds going to charity!

• Our next book is Before the Deluge by Otto Friedrich, a portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, which we'll discuss in great and discursive detail at the end of the month as is our wont.