Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE by Gloria Naylor and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss OPEN SECRETS: STORIES by Alice Munro, weighing the value of her work against what we have recently learned of her personal life. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in May.

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Books mentioned:

• The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
• Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
• The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill
• Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy by Clare Carlisle
• There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
• The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated from the Dutch by Martin Aitken
• The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated from the Dutch by David McKay
• The Duke by Matteo Melchiorre, translated from the Italian by Antonella Lettieri
• The Witch by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
• Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
• The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
• An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
• Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
• Sakina's Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag, translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur
• Open Secrets: Stories by Alice Munro
• A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett, with an afterword from the One Bright Book crew.

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE by Gloria Naylor, a choice Rebecca has made based upon some love Hanif Abdurraqib shared for the novel in a recent podcast. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in April.

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Books mentioned:

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
• Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
• Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aiken
• The Witch by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
• The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated from the Dutch by David McKay
• Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur, translated from the Persian by Faridoun Farrokh
• Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin Ling
• Small Comfort by Ia Genberg, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson
• There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
• Trouble Maker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan
• Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern
• Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
• The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Read Rohan Maitzen on Orlando at her blog Novel Readings.

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Frances, and Rebecca as they discuss O PIONEERS! by Willa Cather, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in early June.

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Books mentioned:

• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
• A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
• Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
• Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin
• Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
• The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
• Chasing Bright Medusas by Benjamin Taylor
• Willa Cather: Double Lives by Hermione Lee
• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

You might also be interested in "The Peace When It Settled: Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional" by Rohan Maitzen.

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Dorian, and Frances as they discuss THE TREES by Percival Everett, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss O PIONEERS! by Willa Cather. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late April.

Books mentioned:

• The Trees by Percival Everett
• James by Percival Everett
• Erasure by Percival Everett
• God's Country by Percival Everett
• Sonnets for a Missing Key by Percival Everett
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
• On the Calculation of Volume, Volume 1 by Solvej Balle, translated from the Dutch by Barbara J. Haveland
• Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter
• Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton
• Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda
• Eurotrash by Christian Kracht, translated from the German by Daniel Bowles
• On a Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer, translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott
• Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker
• Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
• The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
• O Pioneers! By Willa Cather

You might also be interested in:

• I'm Getting Out of Her by Leo Robson - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n21/leo-robson/i-m-getting-out-of-here
• TomorrowTalks with Percival Everett: The Trees - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irzJhamPVJw

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Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss WE DO NOT PART by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss The Trees by Percival Everett. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in early April.

Books mentioned:

• We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
• Human Acts by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
• The White Book by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
• Greek Lessons by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon 
• The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
• The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren
• Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden
• Like a Sky Inside by by Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker
• Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry by Ryan Ruby
• The Trees by Percival Everett
• James by Percival Everett
• Erasure by Percival Everett

You might also be interested in:

• Han Kang: Nobel Lecture - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/han/lecture/
• The Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada - https://www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/
• 2024 NBCC Awards Longlists - https://www.bookcritics.org/2025/01/19/2024-nbcc-awards-longlists/
• 2024 NBCC Award Finalists - https://www.bookcritics.org/awards/

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Frances, and Rebecca as they discuss MOBILITY by Lydia Kiesling, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss WE DO NOT PART by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late February.

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Books mentioned:

• Mobility by Lydia Kiesling
• The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris
• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, translated from the German by John E. Woods
• Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
• The Achilles Trap by Stephen Coll
• When the Clock Broke by John Ganz
• Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse
• Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
• We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2025 with Rohan Maitzen, English Professor at Dalhousie University, critic, and writer of the Novel Readings blog.

For our next episode, we will discuss Mobility by Lydia Keisling. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late January.

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Books Mentioned:

• Widening the Skirts of Light: Essays on George Eliot by Rohan Maitzen
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Gliff by Ali Smith
• The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington
• Opus Siniestrus by Leonora Carrington
• Lili Is Crying by Helene Bessette
• Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Radio Treason The Trials of Lord Haw-Haw, the British Voice of Nazi Germany by Rebecca West
• The Deserters by Mathias Énard, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
• Zone by Mathias Énard, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
• The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Mathias Énard, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
• Exophony: Voyages Outside the Moher Tongue by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
• Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
• Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Susan Bernofsky
• Makeshift by Sarah Campion
• The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, translated from the German by Philip Boehm
• The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
• Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
• Wildcat Dome by Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
• Love in Exile by Shon Faye
• The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
• So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania by Levi Shalit, translated by Veronica Belling, Ellen Cassedy and Andrew Cassel
• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Sun City by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal
• Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative by Hershel Parker
• Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 1, 1819-1851) by Hershel Parker
• Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 2, 1851-1891) by Hershel Parker
• Melvill by Rodrigo Fresan, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Mobility by Lydia Keisling

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Dorian, and Frances as they discuss OVERSTAYING by Ariane Koch, translated from the German by Damion Searls, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will welcome Rohan Maitzen to the podcast to join us in discussion about the books we are most looking forward to in the new year. We would love to have you join us for our conversation coming to you in late December.

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Books Mentioned:

• Overstaying by Ariane Koch, translated from the German by Damion Searls
• Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Ronnie A. Grinberg
• Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls
• The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls
• Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
• One Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
• Ash Dark As Night by Gary Phillips
• Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

You might also be interested in:

• "The Cares of a Family Man" by Franz Kafka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cares_of_a_Family_Man
• Struwwelpeter -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter
• The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(short_story)

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Rebecca, and Dorian as they discuss FRAGMENTS OF A PARADISE by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Paul Eprile, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss OVERSTAYING by Ariane Koch, translated from the German by Damion Searls. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late November.

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Books mentioned:

• Fragments of a Paradise by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Paul Eprile
• Hill by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Paul Eprile
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Position of Spoons by Deborah Levy
• To and Fro by Leah Hager Cohen
• Gifted by Suzumi Suzuki, translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell
• Melvill by Rodrigo Fresan, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
• Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir by Erika Morillo
• Salvage: Readings From the Wreck by Dionne Brand
• Overstaying by Ariane Koch, translated from the German by Damion Searls

You might also be interested in:

• "The Autobiography of J.G.B." by J.G. Ballard - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/11/the-autobiography-of-j-g-b
• Information on the Tom Jones read-along: https://readingkatebriggs.substack.com/
• Rebecca's review of Gifted: https://wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews/gifted-suzumi-suzuki-allison-markin-powell/

Further resources and links are available on our website at onebrightbook.com.

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss THE HOUSE IN PARIS by Elizabeth Bowen, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss FRAGMENTS OF A PARADISE by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Paul Eprile. This English language translation of Giono's "often over-looked seafaring tale," an "allegorical critique of modern civilization," will be released by Archipelago Books on November 5. We would love to have you consider reading this one, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late October.

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Books mentioned:

• The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
• A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
• Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber
• Lublin by Manya Wilkinson
• The Last Ranger by Peter Heller
• The Wilderness by Ayşegül Savaş
• Frighten the Horses by Oliver Radclyffe
• The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss
• The Woods in Winter by Stella Gibbons
• Spinsters in Jeopardy by Ngaio Marsh
• The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
• Fragments of a Paradise by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Paul Eprile

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Rebecca, and Dorian as they return from their vacations, and discuss some of their summer reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss THE HOUSE IN PARIS by Elizabeth Bowen. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late September.

Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books!

Books Mentioned:

• My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss
• Day by Michael Cunningham
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
• The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
• L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
• Germinal by Émile Zola
• Nana by Émile Zola
• Like Love by Maggie Nelson
• An Image of My Name Enters America by Lucy Ives
• All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
• Drifts by Kate Zambreno
• A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated by Gwendolyn Harper
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Mammoth by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches
• Passages by Ann Quin
• Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky
• Opacities by Sofia Samatar
• The Little Man From Archangel by Georges Simenon
• Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villareal
• In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
• Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
• Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison
• The Future by Catherine Leroux
• Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary
• The Past by Tessa Hadley
• The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

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Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.

This third bonus episode of the podcast is a conversation that Rebecca and Frances recently had with writer and podcaster, David Naimon, while Dorian recharges his depleted battery in the wilds of Canada. We are devoted listeners to David's fine work on Between the Covers, and as you listen in here, we feel confident that you will appreciate the intelligence, the generosity, and the empathy that makes his work irresistible to us.

You might also be interested in:

David's Crafting With Ursula series: https://tinhouse.com/th_podcast_cat/crafting-with-ursula/

These five recent episodes of Between the Covers that are favorites of Frances and Rebecca:

• Naomi Klein - Part 1 https://tinhouse.com/podcast/naomi-klein-doppelganger/ and Part 2 https://tinhouse.com/podcast/naomi-klein-doppelganger-part-two/
• Kate Zambreno and Sofia Samatar - https://tinhouse.com/podcast/kate-zambreno-sofia-samatar-tone/
• Anne de Marcken - https://tinhouse.com/podcast/anne-de-marcken-it-lasts-forever-and-then-its-over/
• Mathias Énard - https://tinhouse.com/podcast/mathias-enard-the-annual-banquet-of-the-gravediggers-guild/
• Kate Briggs - https://tinhouse.com/podcast/kate-briggs-the-long-form/

We mention this new podcast Hey, It's Me, hosted by Rachel Zucker and Mike Sakasegawa: https://www.heyitsmepodcast.com/about

We mention the newsletter Involutions of the Seashell, an epistolary exchange between Lori Feathers and Anthony Garrett on Marguerite Young's novel MISS MACINTOSH, MY DARLING. https://missmacintosh.substack.com/

And finally, we think you also might enjoy reading David's book, Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/conversations-on-writing

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss THE WAY WE LIVE NOW by Anthony Trollope and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf, the "joyful romp," the "escapade" that might have you thinking of the author in a new way. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you around the end of February.

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Books mentioned:

• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
• Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
• The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
• The Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope
• An Autobiography by Anthony Trollope
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Transylvanian Trilogy by Mikos Banffy
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled by Alex Green
• Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
• Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
• Head of a Traveler by Nicholas Blake
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf

You may also be interested in:

The National Book Critics Circle Awards

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances and Dorian as they discuss THE WEDDING by Dorothy West and chat about their current reading.

Summer is upon us, so we are setting ourselves free just a little bit. July and August will feature some bonus content as well as a wrap-up conversation about our summer reading. Look out for details about these conversations on our social media accounts. Our next regularly scheduled episode will be in September when we will discuss A HOUSE IN PARIS by Elizabeth Bowen. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you as the first signs of fall arrive.

We are holding a contest! We've each picked six books we're excited to read this summer. You can check out all the books at our store. But who chose what? Which books have caught Rebecca's eye? What's Dorian checking out? Which titles are calling to Frances?

Match titles with reader, and send your responses via DM to the One Bright Book twitter account or email at onebrightmail@gmail.com. 

Entries due at noon on July 4th, central time. Open world-wide. 

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Books Mentioned:

• The Wedding by Dorothy West
• The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West
• Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays by Elisa Gabbert
• Emergency by Daisy Hildyard
• The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard
• Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale by Paul Yamazaki
• The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-First Century by Josh Cook
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Kala by Colin Walsh
• The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

You might also be interested in:

• Notes From a Small Press, Anne Trubek - https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com/
• "Shades of Difference" by Susan Kenney (NYT review in year of publication) - https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/books/shades-of-difference.html

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances and Dorian as they discuss LA BÊTE HUMAINE by Émile Zola and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss THE WEDDING by Dorothy West. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late June.

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Books mentioned:

• La Bête Humaine by Émile Zola, translated with introduction and notes by Roger Pearson
• L'Assommoir by Émile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson and edited by Robert Lethbridge
• Germinal by Émile Zola, translated by Peter Collier and With an Introduction by Robert Lethbridge
• The Masterpiece by Émile Zola, translated by Thomas Walton and translation revised and introduced by Roger Pearson
• Nana by Émile Zola, translated by Helen Constantine and Edited by Brian Nelson
• Pot Luck by Émile Zola, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Brian Nelson
• Doctor Pascal by Émile Zola, translated by Julie Rose, edited by Brian Nelson
• The Octopus by Frank Norris
• Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Wool, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker
• Henry, Henry by Allen Bratton
• The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
• The Wedding by Dorothy West

You might also be interested in:

• "Is It Even Good? Brandon Taylor Reads Zola" - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/brandon-taylor/is-it-even-good
• Further pursuing your knowledge of literary zombie novels

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances and Dorian as they discuss DURING THE REIGN OF THE QUEEN OF PERSIA by Joan Chase and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss LA BÊTE HUMAINE by Émile Zola. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late May.

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Books mentioned:

• During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
• The Evening Wolves by Joan Chase
• Bonneville Blue by Joan Chase
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
• Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni
• Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
• The Wedding by Dorothy West
• Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
• La Bête Humaine by Émile Zola

You might also be interested in:

• "Is It Even Good? Brandon Taylor Reads Zola" - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/brandon-taylor/is-it-even-good
• "The Longest, Least-Remembered Great American Novel" by Ryan Ruby - https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-longest-least-remembered-great-american-novel

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances and Dorian as they discuss THE WILD IRIS by Louise Glück, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss DURING THE REIGN OF THE QUEEN OF PERSIA by Joan Chase. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late April.

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Books mentioned:

• The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
• Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück
• Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück
• Proof and Theories: Essays on Poetry by Louise Glück
• American Originality: Essays on Poetry by Louise Glück
• Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely
• Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman
• Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
• Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
• Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
• The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
• Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
• Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
• A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
• Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches
• Lost On Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
• What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
• Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
• Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt
• During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase

You might also be interested in:

• Louise Glück Nobel Lecture - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/gluck/lecture/
• Remembering Louise Glück by Garth Greenwell - https://garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/remembering-louise-gluck-1943-2023

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Rebecca, and Dorian as they discuss HARRIET HUME by Rebecca West, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss THE WILD IRIS by Louise Gluck. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in March.

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Books mentioned:

• Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
• The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
• The Judge by Rebecca West
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• The Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
• Howards End by E. M. Forster
• Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
• The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Lote by Shola Von Reinhold
• Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning
• Sunflower by Rebecca West
• The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola
• His Excellency Eugene Rougon by Emile Zola
• The Octopus by Frank Norris
• McTeague by Frank Norris
• A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
• The Tree of Life by Chava Rosenfarb
• In the Land of the Postscript: The Complete Short Stories of Chava Rosenfarb by Chava Rosenfarb
• Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays by Chava Rosenfarb
• Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
• This Little Art by Kate Briggs
• The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the College de France by Roland Barthes
• The Long Form by Kate Briggs
• How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
• The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck

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Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2024 with John Williams, books editor for the Washington Post.

For our next episode, we will discuss Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy by Rebecca West. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late January.

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Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss A MERCY by Toni Morrison and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss our most anticipated books of 2024 with the book editor of the Washington Post, John Williams, as our special guest. We hope you all listen in to this conversation and grow your book wish lists accordingly.

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• A Mercy by Toni Morrison
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Home by Toni Morrison
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette
• Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
• Tone by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno
• The Long Form by Kate Briggs
• The Master Key by Masako Togawa, translated from the Japanese by Simon Grove
• Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
• The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
• The Real Night by Rebecca West
• Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West

You might also be interested in:

• Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/lecture/
• Between the Covers Podcast – Kate Zambreno and Sofia Samatar: Tone https://tinhouse.com/podcast/kate-zambreno-sofia-samatar-tone/
• Toni Morrison Discusses A Mercy -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IZvMhQ2LIU
• Toni Morrison: 'Goodness, Altruism and the Literary Imagination' https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/books/toni-morrison-goodness-altruism-literary-imagination.html

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Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD by Mary McCarthy and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss A MERCY by Toni Morrison. We would love to have you read along with us, and listen in on our conversation coming to you in December.

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Books mentioned:

• Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
• The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
• The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
• Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975 by Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt
• The Group by Mary McCarthy
• The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
• The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
• Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
• Lojman by Ebru Ojen, translated by Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu
• The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Translated by Lara Vergnaud
• The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
• Crook O'Lune by E.C.R. Lorac
• Tone by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno
• The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
• Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac
• Gibbons, or One Bloody Thing After Another by James Morrison
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison

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Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss MAP: COLLECTED AND LAST POEMS by Wislawa Szymborska, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD by Mary McCarthy. We would love to have you read along with us, and listen in on our conversation coming to you in October or November, scheduling and consistency being our strong points.

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Books mentioned:

• Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak
• The Memoir of an Anti-Hero by Kornel Filipowicz
• Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska, illustrated by Beatrice Gasca Queirazza
• Chenneville by Paulette Jiles
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• Simon the Fiddler by Paulete Jiles
• Come Back in September by Darryl Pinckney
• The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
• The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s by Alexander Nemerov
• Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
• The End of August by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles
• Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
• Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy

Just in case you don't have a copy of Map on hand, here are some links to the main poems discussed in this episode:

• "Love at First Sight" - https://poets.org/poem/love-first-sight
• "Allegro ma Non Troppo" - http://mrhoyesibwebsite.com/Poetry%20Texts/Szymborska/The%20Poems/Allegro%20Ma%20Non%20Troppo.htm
• "In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself" - https://www.best-poems.net/poem/praise-feeling-bad-about-yourself-by-wislawa-szymborska.html
• "Consolation" - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/48271/consolation-56d2295fb70bb
• Szymborska's Nobel Lecture - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1996/szymborska/lecture/

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This second bonus episode of the podcast is a conversation that Rebecca and Frances recently had with writer and translator, Anton Hur. We are excited to share that Anton is the first guest we have had on One Bright Book! His insights into translation and the role of the translator were direct and honest, revealing both surprises and calls for action to improve the landscape of the craft.

Books mentioned:

• Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur
• Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur
• Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell
• Jennifer Croft original work and translations
• The Long Form by Kate Briggs
• Counterweight by Djuna, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur
• Beyond the Story: 10 Year Record of BTS by Kang Myeong, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur in collaboration with Claire Richards and Slin Jung
• Indeterminate Inflorescence by Lee Seong-bok, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur
• White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link
• Vengeance is Mine by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
• That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
• The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Mathias Énard, translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2026 with Sam Sacks, prominent book critic for The Wall Street Journal, writing the weekly "Fiction Chronicle," and a founding editor of Open Letters Monthly.

For our next episode, we will discuss The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late January.

Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books!

Books mentioned:

• The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale
• In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale
• Opus Siniestra by Leonora Carrington
• On the Calculation of Volume, Book IV by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
• Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999-2023 by Amit Chaudhuri
• In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
• This Is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin
• Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrique, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
• You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrique, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
• The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
• My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
• First Love by Gwendoline Riley
• Ambivalence by Brian Dillon
• Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle
• Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir
• Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple
• Down Time by Andrew Martin
• Early Work by Andrew Martin
• Cool for America by Andrew Martin
• On Morrison by Namwali Serpell
• The Witch by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
• That Time of Year by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
• Twenty Minutes of Silence by Helene Bessette, translated from the French by Kate Briggs
• Lilli Is Crying by Helene Bessette, translated from the French by Kate Briggs
• The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
• The Week of Colors by Elena Garro, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
• Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
• Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
• The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading by Francis Spufford
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett
• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

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Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss MRS. S by K Patrick, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss MAP: COLLECTED AND LAST POEMS by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in September. We have had to reschedule this chat a few times, but we really think that we can deliver this time.

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Books mentioned:

• Mrs. S by K. Patrick
• Bear by Marian Engel
• A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
• Blood Wedding and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca
• Loving by Henry Green
• Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
• The steamy novels of Alberto Moravia
• Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Michael Hoffman
• Out of the Sugar Factory by Dorothee Elmiger, translated from the Swiss German by Megan Ewing
• April in Spain by John Banville
• Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno
• Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq, translated from the French by Penny Hueston
• Being Here is Everything by Marie Darrieussecq, translated from the French by Penny Hueston
• Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
• All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
• A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
• Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak

Also mentioned in the podcast…

Dorothee Elmiger and Kate Zambreno in conversation – "A Meditation on Being a Daughter." https://vimeo.com/819544960

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This special episode of the podcast is a quick conversation between Rebecca and Frances after they enjoyed a private tour of the library at The Mount, Edith Wharton's summer home in Lenox, Massachusetts. The team thought it might be fun to do the occasional bonus episode when the opportunity presents, capturing a bookishly fun moment in a more compact exchange. Although these "extras" might not all have the excellent bird song in the background that you will find here.

Content warning – this episode briefly discusses suicidal feelings.

Here are a few links that you might enjoy if you are curious about this content:

• The Mount - https://www.edithwharton.org/
• Edith Wharton's Library - http://edithwhartonslibrary.org/dir/home.html
• The Edith Wharton Society - https://edithwhartonsociety.wordpress.com/
• The Custom of the Country: Vogue Re-creates Edith Wharton's Artistic Arcadia - https://www.vogue.com/article/the-custom-of-the-country-edith-wharton-estate-in-the-berkshires
• Frances's gorgeous photos on our website: https://onebrightbook.com/2023/07/20/bonus-episode-1-edith-whartons-the-mount/

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Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss AN I-NOVEL by Minae Mizumura, translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss MAP: COLLECTED AND LAST POEMS by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in July.

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Books mentioned:

• An I-Novel by Minae Mizumura, translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter
• The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura, translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter
• Inheritance From Mother by Minae Mizumura
• The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Light Room by Kate Zambreno
• Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt
• To Write as If Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
• What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books by Sheila Liming
• Mrs. S by K Patrick
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
• Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss SPACE CRONE by Ursula K. Le Guin and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss AN I-NOVEL by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. 

Books mentioned:

• Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown by Virginia Woolf
• The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
• Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson
• On Women by Susan Sontag
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
• Shy by Max Porter
• Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Cespedes, translated by Ann Goldstein
• Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, translated by Lucy Jones
• Francisco by Alison Mills Newman
• They by Kay Dick
• The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman
• We the Parasites by A.V. Marraccini
• A Writer's Diary by Toby Litt
• A Love Affair by Dino Buzzati, translated by Joseph Green
• The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti
• Out of the Sugar Factory by Dorthee Elmiger, translated by Megan Ewing
• Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü, translated Maureen Freely
• Come Back in September by Darryl Pinkney
• Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías, translated Margaret Jull Costa
• Vom Aufstehen (On Getting Up) by Helga Schubert
• The Long Form by Kate Briggs
• The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, translated by Daniel Levin Becker
• Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel
• Septology by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
• The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka, translated by Ross Benjamin
• An I-Novel by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE STONE ANGEL by Margaret Laurence and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss SPACE CRONE by Ursula K. Le Guin. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you soon.

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Books mentioned:

• The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
• Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
• The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
• Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
• The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
• Falling Hour by Geoffrey Morrison
• The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• Eventide by Kent Haruf
• Benediction by Kent Haruf
• Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
• Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches
• Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey
• The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, translated by Daniel Levin Becker
• Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-Young Kim
• Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund
• While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer, translated by Kate Derbyshire
• Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell
• Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes
• The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
• Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss MAUD MARTHA by Gwendolyn Brooks and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss THE STONE ANGEL by Margaret Laurence. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in April.

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Books mentioned:

• Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
• The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
• Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker
• The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky, translated from the Russian by Douglas Smith
• The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss LOTE by Shola von Reinhold and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss MAUD MARTHA by Gwendolyn Brooks. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you at the end of March.

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Books mentioned:

• Lote by Shola von Reinhold
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
• Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth
• The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker
• Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
• Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
• The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
• Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
• Falling Hour by Geoffrey Morrison
• Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss the books they are most looking forward to in 2023. For our next episode, we will discuss LOTE by Shola von Reinhold. Read along with us if you like!

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS by Kate Beaton, and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss our most anticipated books of 2023 and look back at some of the books we loved in 2022. 

Books mentioned: 

• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton
• King Baby by Kate Beaton
• Ennemonde by Jean Giono, translated by Bill Johnston
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
• Sea State by Tabitha Lasley
• Inheritance from Mother by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
• A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
• An I-Novel by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
• The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter and Mari Yoshihara
• Trust by Hernan Diaz
• The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano, translated by Mark Polizzotti
• Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano, translated by Phoebe Weston-Evans
• Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano, translated by Mark Polizzotti
• The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos by Dionne Brand
• A Horse at Night by Amina Cain

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss TO WRITE AS IF ALREADY DEAD by Kate Zambreno, and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss DUCKS by Kate Beaton. 

Books mentioned: 

• To Write As If Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
• To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert
• Drifts by Kate Zambreno
• Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
• The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
• A Barthes Reader edited by Susan Sontag
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer
• All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett, David Boyd
• Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett, David Boyd
• Written Lives by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
• The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
• A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain
• Indelicacy by Amina Cain
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
• Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
• 3 Streets by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
• Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
• Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
• Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
• One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
• The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
• Ducks by Kate Beaton

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will be joined by book critic Sam Sacks for our fourth (!!!) annual most anticipated books episode. We will each come to the table with three books that we are excited to see published in 2026. Will we duplicate each other's choices? Will each of have enough choices in reserve to pivot if necessary? Will someone cheat and present more than three selections? These are questions that we love to pretend to care about each year. We hope you join us for what has become a highlight of our podcasting year!

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Books Mentioned:

• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz
• Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside
• Bear by Marian Engel
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
• Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
• Long Distance by Aysegül Savas
• Ugliness by Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elizabeth Lauffer
• Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel by Frances Wilson
• Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark by James Bailey
• A Dark Corner by Celia Dale
• Sheep's Clothing by Celia Dale
• The Face of Trespass by Ruth Rendell
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer, and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss Kate Zambreno's TO WRITE AS IF ALREADY DEAD. Read along with us if you like!

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will discuss THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Read along with us if you like!

Books mentioned:

• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
• Summer by Edith Wharton
• Old New York by Edith Wharton
• Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
• Edith Wharton by R.W.B. Lewis
• The Reef by Edith Wharton
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Washington Square by Henry James
• Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
• Happening by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie
• The Longcut by Emily Hall
• Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
• After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
• Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac
• A Murder Too Many by E.X. Ferrars
• Smoke Without Fire by E.X. Ferrars
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated Jules Feiffer

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Alice Hattrick's book ILL FEELINGS and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton. Read along with us if you like!

Books mentioned:

• Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
• This Little Art by Kate Briggs
• Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
• Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
• Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon
• The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer
• Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie
• In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale
• The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard
• On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf
• Heroines by Kate Zambreno
• Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
• Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
• Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
• Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Mata, Translated by Jonathan Dunne
• Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop, translated by Anne McLean
• Ennemonde by Jean Giano, translated by Bill Johnston
• An Impossible Love by Christine Angot, translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer
• Incest by Christine Angot, translated by Tess Lewis
• Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
• The Communist by Guido Morselli, translated by Frederika Randall
• The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Sylvia Townsend Warner's novel LOLLY WILLOWES and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss ILL FEELINGS by Alice Hattrick. Read along with us if you like!

Books mentioned:

• Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Criminal Trials in Scotland by Robert Pitcairn
• The Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray
• Sylvia Townsend Warner by Claire Harman
• Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The novels of Henry Green
• Of Cats and Elfins: Short Tales and Fantasies by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Poetry and letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett by Sarah Knights
• Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
• There's Trouble Brewing by Nicholas Blake
• The Colony by Audrey Magee
• Berlin Game by Len Deighton
• Mexico Set by Len Deighton
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
• Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
• Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag

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Books mentioned:

• Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
• The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• The works of Joseph Conrad (Marlow narration in Lord Jim, Chance, Heart of Darkness)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Another Country by James Baldwin
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• The Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul
• Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk
• Pilgrimage (13 novels) by Dorothy Richardson
• Night Train by A. L Snijder, translated by Lydia Davis
• The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott
• Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Yūko Tsushima's 1980 novel Woman Running in the Mountains (tr. Geraldine Harcourt) and chat about their recent reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah. 

Books mentioned:

• Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt
• Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt
• Of Dogs and Walls by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt
• Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt
• The novels of Jean Rhys
• The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing
• The Wall by Marlen Hauhofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside
• Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
• Bear by Marian Engel
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
• Black Paper by Teju Cole
• Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
• Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
• Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell
• Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead
• The Break by Katherena Vermette
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Susan Sontag's 1992 novel THE VOLCANO LOVER and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss WOMAN RUNNING IN THE MOUNTAINS by Yūko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt. 

Books mentioned:

• The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
• AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
• Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
• Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
• Susan Sontag by Benjamin Moser
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
• The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe
• The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft
• Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell
• Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated by Anton Hur
• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
• Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
• A New Name by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
• Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes
• Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes
• In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin, translated by Sophie R. Lewis
• A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem by Manda Collins
• Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
• Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt
• Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they introduce themselves, describe their plan for the podcast, and talk about their current reading. 

Looking ahead, for our first full episode we will discuss Susan Sontag's THE VOLCANO LOVER. Read along with us if you like!  

Books discussed in this episode:

• Panthers and the Museum of Fire by Jen Craig
• Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
• Nostalgia by Mircea Cartarescu, translated by Julian Semilian
• Susan Sontag by Benjamin Moser
• Reborn: Journals and Notebook, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag and David Reiff
• Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography by Muriel Spark
• Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag and Benjamin Taylor
• Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
• Devil House by John Darnielle
• Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
• The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• The Employees by Olga Ravn
• The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag

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Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.

Welcome to One Bright Book! Rebecca and Frances move out of the picture for this bonus episode where Dorian gets a chance to finally discuss VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray with his one time professor and always friend, Rohan Maitzen. A rare and special opportunity to revisit the book from the syllabus that he blew off reading. "You can never entirely escape your sins!" Ready for some time well-spent in the 19th century?

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Books Mentioned:

• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Warden by Anthony Trollope
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
• Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
• Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• Villette by Charlotte Bronte
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

You can find Rohan's blog Novel Readings here: https://rohanmaitzen.com/novelreadings/

Special thanks to Fred the Cat for the special background symphony.

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE STONE DOOR by Leonora Carrington, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, with an afterword by Sophie Mackintosh. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you sometime this fall. Yes, that time frame is vague but we like to be truthful.

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Books Mentioned:

• The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington
• The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
• Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration edited by Anna Watz
• A History of the Surrealist Novel edited by Anna Watz
• Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
• The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldana Paris, translated from the Spanish by Christina Macsweeney
• Sea Now by Eva Meijer, translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz

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Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss MIAOW by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you sometime in late September.

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Books mentioned:

• Miaow by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
• The Antinomies of Realism by Frederic Jameson
• The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
• The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
• Anima: A Wild Pastoral by Kapka Kassabova
• Living by Henry Green
• People Like Us by Jason Mott
• Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Odd Women by George Gissing
• The Holiday by Stevie Smith
• Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz,translated from the German by Max Lawton
• Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated from the French by David Bellos
• The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington
• Angela Carter and Surrealism by Anna Walz
• A History of the Surrealist Novel edited by Anna Walz
• Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Walz
• Opus Siniestrus by Leonora Carrington

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss THERE'S ALWAYS THIS YEAR: ON BASKETBALL AND ASCENSION by Hanif Abdurraqib, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss MIAOW by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you sometime in August. Maybe. It's summer, people!

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Books Mentioned:

• There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
• They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
• A Fortune For Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib
• A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Be Holding: A Poem by Ross Gay
• Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer
• Theory and Practice by Michelle de Kretser
• Attila by Aliocha Coll, translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore
• Attila by Javier Serena, translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore
• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• Miaow by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

You might also be interested in:

Beyond the Zero Podcast: Katie Whittemore speaking about her translations of Attila by Alicocha Coll and Attila by Javier Serena

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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS by Sarah Orne Jewett, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in early July.

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Books mentioned:

• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
• A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
• Willa Cather: Double Lives by Hermione Lee
• Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
• Nadja by André Breton, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti
• The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
• Audition by Katie Kitamura
• Audition by Pip Adam
• Animal Stories by Kate Zambreno
• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
• My Heresies by Aline Stefanescu
• There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Further resources and links are available on our website at onebrightbook.com.

Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org.

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Dorian's blog: https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/

Rebecca's newsletter: https://readingindie.substack.com/

Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.