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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