Podcasts by 75 Reads

Bowie, Ep. 29 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark&What Makes One "The Crème de la Crème" from 2020-03-17T07:00

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark is our latest read, and our last read before we take a few weeks off for spring break. One of us loved this book, and one of us really and ...

Bowie, Ep. 28 - On Having No Head by Douglas Harding&What If We Didn't Have An Eight Inch Ball from 2020-03-03T08:00

One day in the early 1940s Douglas Harding, an English architect, was hiking in the Himalayas when he had a shocking realization…he had no head. He realized that ...

Bowie, Ep. 27 - Silence by John Cage&Why There Is Always Sound from 2020-02-18T08:00

Silence by John Cage is a collection of lectures and stories. Some are written in vertical columns. Some have, let’s call it interesting, spacing. And some, as Ca...

Bowie, Ep. 26 - Strange People by Frank Edwards&Is "Freak" Really The Right Word? from 2020-02-04T08:00

A “monkey girl”, sleepless people (one named David Jones - not our David Jones), water diviners, an author who was a channeled spirit, psychic detectives...

Bowie, Ep. 25 - The Divided Self by R.D. Laing&Why This Book Seemed Personal from 2020-01-21T08:00

To start with, Laing states that the basic purpose of this book is to make madness, and the process of going mad, comprehensible.

The full title i...

Bowie, Ep. 24 - All The Emperor's Horses by David Kidd, aka Peking Story from 2020-01-07T08:00

If you follow us on Twitter you know that we’re reviewing All The Emperor’s Horses in one episode. And you know that this read is also found under the title Pekin...

Bowie, Ep. 23 - Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse&Why Two Ways of Thinking Aren't Better Than One from 2019-10-22T08:00

We typically split our reads in half and record two episodes per book here on the pod, but Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse was such a quick read that we felt one e...

Bowie, Ep. 22 - The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, Part 2&Why The Prince Is Really A Serval from 2019-10-08T08:00

We’re wrapping up The Leopard, so you may wonder, “What the heck is that animal in the photo? It doesn’t look like a leopard.” You would be correct! It is, in fac...

Bowie, Ep. 21 - The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, Part 1&Why the Prince is Swoon-worthy from 2019-09-24T08:00

The Leopard, by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, is an historical fiction novel centered around Prince Fabrizio (the leopard) and a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy in ...

Bowie, Ep. 20 - On The Road by Jack Kerouac, Part 2&Why Your Feelings About Sal and Dean Might Change Over Time from 2019-09-10T08:00

We’re wrapping up our journey with Sal and the gang with the second half of On The Road by Jack Kerouac. And we are a house divided. One of us liked it, one of us...

Bowie, Ep. 19 - On The Road by Jack Kerouac, Part 1&Why Bowie Might Be A Dean from 2019-08-27T08:00

We’re going On The Road with Bowie as we read Jack Kerouac’s classic. And in some very specific instances, we did feel we were seeing a Bowie connection in one of...

Bowie, Ep. 18 - The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, Part 2&Why We're Living in the 1950s from 2019-08-13T09:00

We’re wrapping up The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, and yes, there are more case studies. Loads of them. And they’re actually quite interesting, but to inje...

Bowie, Ep. 17 - The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, Part 1 and Why We Are Johnny from 2019-07-30T10:00

We’re diving in to The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, an examination of how our thoughts and feelings are manipulated by advertisers and media. The book was ...

Bowie, Ep. 16 - A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno, Part 2&Why Our Way Isn't The Only Way from 2019-07-16T11:00

We’re wrapping up A Grave For A Dolphin discussing some of the most beautiful and heart wrenching love stories we’ve come across. There’s the tale of young Hassib...

Bowie, Ep. 15 - A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno, Part 1&Why We Should Talk To The Animals from 2019-07-02T09:00

Ten year old Alberto Denti di Pirajno met a man at a retirement party he attended with his mother who was celebrating fifty years of making Punchinello’s noses. F...

Bowie, Ep. 14 - Room At The Top by John Braine, Part 2&Why We Still Love Joe from 2019-06-18T08:00

We continue riding on Joe’s emotional rollercoaster. There’s true love. There’s loss. There are affairs and fights. And, some of the things that Joe says has us w...

Bowie, Ep. 13 - Room At The Top by John Braine, Part 1&Why The Thin White Duke Is Everywhere from 2019-06-04T07:00

Okay, we know we said that our previous read was our favorite yet. Let’s just say that Room At The Top is our favorite fiction book on the list thus far. And a Bo...

Bowie, Ep. 12 - The Outsider by Colin Wilson, Part 2&Why We Think Bowie Was Not An Outsider from 2019-05-21T08:30

What can we say? This is our favorite book, yet! By the end of The Outsider, we felt as though we could almost see Bowie’s thought process as he read it.

In part two of ...

Bowie, Ep. 11 - The Outsider by Colin Wilson, Part 1&Why This Book Is The Most Bowie Thus Far from 2019-05-07T07:00

At first we didn’t get it, then we got it…in a big way. There are bits of this book that feel very Bowie. In so many interviews, we can see that part of his geniu...

Bowie, Ep. 10, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Part 2&Why We Are No Longer Charmed from 2019-04-23T07:00

If you listened to our last episode you know that, while we knew ol’ Humbert Humbert was a horrible human being, we still found him humorous and quite sharp. Well...

Bowie, Ep. 9 - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Part 1&Why We Have Conflicting Emotions from 2019-04-09T07:00

This book is timely, given the release of the Leaving Neverland documentary and the Me Too movement. It’s the story of a middle aged literature professor / poet named Humb...

Bowie, Ep. 8 - Diamond Dogs and 1984 from 2019-03-20T07:00

Are you a Diamond Dogs fan, or not so much? Does it correlate to how you feel about George Orwell’s 1984, the inspiration for the album? We can recognize 1984 as a great w...

Bowie, Ep. 7 - 1984 by George Orwell, Part 2&Why Now May Not Be The Best Time To Read This Book from 2019-03-05T08:00

Well, we are back at it again with 1984. And we are so ready to be finished with this book. In the current political climate, it all hits a little too close to home. What we've learned from Wins...

Bowie, Ep. 6 - 1984 by George Orwell, Part 1&Why It's Killing Us from 2019-02-19T08:00

We read it as kids, and now we're revisiting it. 1984 by George Orwell. Originally published in 1949, it seems only to grow more relevant with time. And that is a frighten...

Bowie, Ep. 5 - The Street by Ann Petry, Part 2&Why It's So Frustrating from 2019-02-05T08:00

We're talking about the second half of The Street, by Ann Petry. And we have feelings. More specifically, we were bothered. On so many levels. The second half of this wonderful book really struc...

Bowie, Ep. 4 - The Street by Ann Petry, Part 1&Why We Love It from 2019-01-22T08:00

The Street is the story of a young, black, single mom, named Lutie Johnson who is struggling to raise her son, Bub, in the racial dissonance that was Harlem in the late 1940s. In this e...

Bowie, Ep. 3 - Happy Birthday from 2019-01-08T08:00

This episode isn’t a book review, it’s kind of a love letter to our beloved David Bowie on the month he came into this world and also left it. It’s a few thoughts, a few facts, a few la...

Bowie, Ep. 2 - Black Boy by Richard Wright, Part 2 from 2018-10-11T07:00

Join us as we follow young Richard to the north. Will Chicago be the place where the color of his skin is no longer a factor in how Richard lives his life?

Friends, we had some feelings a...

Bowie, Ep. 1 - Black Boy by Richard Wright, Part 1 from 2018-09-18T19:39:31

In our first 75 Reads book club episode, we're discussing part one of Black Boy by Richard Wright. We begin our journey with Richard as he goes from a young boy living in the Jim Crow south, and...

Intro to 75 Reads from 2018-07-25T18:20:25

It's the 75 Reads book club podcast!  In season one, hosts Jo Bozarth and April Bowlby make their way through David Bowie's reading list. Here's a teaser of what's to come!

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