Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

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 Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, a careening comic novel of doomed romance, never ending parties, and rotating gossip columnists.

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Stuff We Talked About

• The PBS series of Brideshead Revisited
• His first novel, Decline and Fall
• The movie version: Bright Young Things
• The Bowie Bookshelf

What Are We Reading?

Greg:

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - as always.
• Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
• Centilogal 2020 by Levi Fuller

Kristianne:

• Devil in the White City
• My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

What Song Did We Choose?

What's Up Next

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

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