| Description |
xxx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Contents |
A clockwork orange (1962) / Anthony Burgess ; The outsider (1942) / Albert Camus ; Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom (1969) / Nik Cohn ; Inferno (c.1320) / Dante Alighieri ; The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao (2007) / Junot Diaz ; The sailor who fell from grace with the sea (1963) / Yukio Mishima ; Selected poems (2009) / Frank O'Hara ; The trial of Henry Kissinger (2001) / Christopher Hitchens ; Lolita (1955) / Vladimir Nabokov ; Madame Bovary (1856) / Gustave Flaubert ; Hall's dictionary of subjects and symbols in art (1974) / James Hall ; Herzog (1964) / Saul Bellow ; The waste land (1922) / T.S. Eliot ; A confederacy of dunces (1980) / John Kennedy Toole ; Mystery train (1975) / Greil Marcus ; The beano (1938-present) ; Metropolitan life (1978) / Fran Lebowitz ; David Bomberg (1988) / Richard Cork ; Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) / Alfred Doblin ; In Bluebeard's castle: Some notes towards the redefinition of culture (1971) / George Steiner ; Lady Chatterley's lover (1928) / D.H. Lawrence ; Octobriana and the Russian underground (1971) / Petr Sadeeky ; Les Chants de Maldoror (1868) / Comte de Lautreamount ; Silence: lectures and writing (1961) / John Cage ; Nineteen eighty-four (1949) / George Orwell ; Hawksmoor (1985) / Peter Ackroyd ; The fire next time (1963) / James Baldwin ; Nights at the circus / Angela Carter ; Trancendental magic: Its doctrine and ritual (1856) / Eliphas Levi ; Fingersmith (2002) / Sarah Waters ; As I lay dying (1930) / William Faulkner ; Mr. Norris changes trains (1935) / Christopher Isherwood ; On the road (1957) / Jack Kerouac ; Zanoni (1842) / Edward Buler-Lytton ; Inside the whale and other essays (1940) / George Orwell ; City of night (1963) / John Rechy ; The brutality of fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon / David Sylvester ; The origins of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind (1976) / David Sylvester ; The great Gatsby (1925) / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Flaubert's parrot (1984) / Julian Barnes ; English journey (1934) / J.B. Priestley ; Billy Liar (1959) / Keith Waterhouse ; A grave for a dolphin / Alberto Denti di Pirajano ; Raw (1986-91) ; The age of American unreason (2008) / Susan Jacoby ; Black boy (1945) / Richard Wright ; Viz (1979-present) ; The street (1946) / Anne Perry ; The Leopard (1958) / Giuseppe Toomasi di Lampedusa ; White noise (1985) / Don DeLillo ; On having no head (1961) / Douglas Harding ; Kafka was the rage (1993) / Anatole Broyard ; The life and times of Little Richard (1984) / Charles White ; Wonder boys (1995) / Michael Chabon ; Darkness at noon (1940) / Arthur Koestler ; The prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) / Muriel Spark ; Room at the top (1957) / John Braine ; The Gnostic Gospels (1979) / Elaine Pagels ; In cold blood (1966) / Truman Capote ; A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924 (1996) / Orlando Figes ; The insult (1996) / Rupert Thomson ; Nowhere to run: The story of soul music (1984) / Gerri Hirshey ; Beyond the brillo box: The visual arts in pot-historical perspective (1992) / Arthur C. Danto ; McTeague / Frank Norris ; The master and margarita (1966) / Mikhail Bulgakov ; Passing / Nella Larsen ; Last exit to Brooklyn (1964) / Hubert Selby Jr. ; Strange people: Unusual humans who have baffled the world / Frank Edwards ; The day of the locust (1939) / Nathanael West ; Tadanori Yokoo (1997) / Tadanori Yokoo ; Teenage: The creation of youth culture (2007) / Jon Savage ; Infants of the spring (1932) / Wallace Thurman ; The bridge (1930) / Hart Crane ; Journey into the whirlwind (1967) / Eugenia Ginzburg ; Tales of Beatnik Glory (1975) / Ed Sanders ; The 42nd parallel (1930) / John Dos Passos ; Sweet sould music: rythm and blues and teh southern dream of freedom (1986) / Peter Guralnick ; The songlines (1987) / Bruce Chatwin ; Sexual Personae: Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) / Camille Paglia ; The American way of death (1963) / Jessica Mitford ; Before |
| Summary |
""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie // Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. // In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list and contextualizes it in the artist's life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in The Iliad impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did The Gnostic Gospels inform Bowie's own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O'Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics of The Beano and The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie's lyrics, his sound, his artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation? // Heartfelt, analytical, and totally original, Bowie's Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281). |
| Subject |
Bowie, David -- Books and reading.
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Essays.
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| ISBN |
9781982112547 (hardback) |
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