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Episode #12: Lote, by Shola von Reinhold Feb 07, 2023

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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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Episode #11: Most Anticipated in 2023 Dec 18, 2022

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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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Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/

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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.

Episode #10: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton Nov 28, 2022

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

Episode #9: To Write As If Already Dead, by Kate Zambreno Oct 25, 2022

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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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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.

Episode #8: The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster Sep 28, 2022

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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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Frances: @nonsuchbook

Dorian: @ds228

Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes

Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/

Rebecca writes a newsletter at 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.

Episode #7: The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton Aug 29, 2022

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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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Frances: @nonsuchbook

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Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/

Rebecca writes a newsletter at 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.

Episode #6: Ill Feelings, by Alice Hattrick Jul 25, 2022

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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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Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/

Rebecca writes a newsletter at 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.

Episode #5: Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner Jun 25, 2022

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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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Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/

Rebecca writes a newsletter at 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.

Episode #4: Gravel Heart, by Abdulrazak Gurnah May 25, 2022

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Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Abdulrazak Gurnah's 2017 novel Gravel Heart and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Read along with us if you like!

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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Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org.

Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail

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Frances: @nonsuchbook

Dorian: @ds228

Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes

Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/

Rebecca writes a newsletter at 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.

Episode #3: Woman Running in the Mountains, by Yuko Tsushima Apr 25, 2022

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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