Is there room in the obituary for some bitchery? (Bowie, bye bye)

A 2018 piece for Stanford Live on Bowie's death and the art of the eulogy. The night that the news went out that David Bowie had died, I was just finishing a book in which he was the central figure. On January 10 th 2016, I was literally on the last pages of my glam rock history Shock and Awe when Twitter told me that this towering pop figure had fallen. A mixture of emotions muddied my mind.…