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list spans decades, from Richard Wrights raw 1945 memoir Black Boy to Susan
Jacobys 2008 analysis of U.S. anti-intellectualism in The Age of American Unreason.
Bowies always had a complicated relationship with the U.S., but his list shows a lot
of love to American writers, from the aforementioned to Truman Capote, Hubert
Selby, Jr., Saul Bellow, Junot Diaz, Jack Kerouac and many more. Hes also very fond
of fellow Brits George Orwell, Ian McEwan, and Julian Barnes and loves Mishima and
Bulgakov. You can read the full list below or over at Open Book Toronto, who urges
you to grab one of these titles and settle in to read and just think, somewhere,
at some point, David Bowie (or, to be more accurate, the man behind David Bowie,
David Jones) was doing the exact same thing. If that sort of thing inspires you to
pick up a good book, go for it. You could also peruse the list, then puzzle over the
literate Bowies lyrics to I Cant Read.
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto,
1992
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille
Paglia, 1990
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter
Guralnick, 1986
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1977
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes,
1976
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillete, 1970
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima, 1963
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding,
1961