Estos son los 100 libros favoritos de David Bowie
El músico británico, David Bowie, dio a conocer una lista con sus 100 libros favoritos.
El músico y compositor de rock británico, David Bowie, dio a conocer una lista con sus 100 libros favoritos.
A propósito de una exhibición que expondrá alrededor de 300 piezas de los archivos personales de Bowie, como; instrumentos, vestuario para conciertos, diarios, letras de canciones, setlists escritos a mano, libros o sketches.
Geoffrey Marsh y Victoria Broakckes, curadores de la mencionada exhibición compartieron la lista de las publicaciones que según Bowie tenemos que leer.
Los 100 libros que tenemos que leer según Bowie:
1. The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz, 2007
3. The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard, 2007
4. Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage, 2007
5. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, 2002
6. The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, 2001
7. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler, 1997
8. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes, 1997
9. The Insult, Rupert Thomson, 1996
10. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, 1995
11. The Bird Artist, Howard Norman, 1994
12. Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard, 1993
13. Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto, 1992
14. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia, 1990
15. David Bomberg, Richard Cork, 1988
16. Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick, 1986
17. The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, 1986
18. Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd, 1985
19. Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey, 1984
20. Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter, 1984
21. Money, Martin Amis, 1984
22. White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1984
23. Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes, 1984
24. The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White, 1984
25. A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980
26. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
27. Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, 1980
28. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, 1980
29. Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980
30. Raw (a ‘graphix magazine’) 1980-91
31. Viz (magazine) 1979 –
32. The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels, 1979
33. Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz, 1978
34. In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan, 1978
35. Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1977
36. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 1976
37. Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders, 1975
38. Mystery Train, Greil Marcus, 1975
39. Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara, 1974
40. Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich, 1972
41. In Bluebeard’s Castle : Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner, 1971
42. Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky, 1971
43. The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillete, 1970
44. The Quest For Christa T, Christa Wolf, 1968
45. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn, 1968
46. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967
47. Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg, 1967
48. Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr. , 1966
49. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1965
50. City of Night, John Rechy, 1965
51. Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964
52. Puckoon, Spike Milligan, 1963
53. The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford, 1963
54. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima, 1963
55. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963
56. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962
57. Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell, 1962
58. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
59. Private Eye (magazine) 1961 –
60. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961
61. Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage, 1961
62. Strange People, Frank Edwards, 1961
63. The Divided Self, R. D. Laing, 1960
64. All The Emperor’s Horses, David Kidd,1960
65. Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse, 1959
66. The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, 1958
67. On The Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
68. The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard, 1957
69. Room at the Top, John Braine, 1957
70. A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno, 1956
71. The Outsider, Colin Wilson, 1956
72. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
73. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949
74. The Street, Ann Petry, 1946
75. Black Boy, Richard Wright, 1945