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Episode #46: Aside From My Heart, All Is Well, by Héctor Abad Jul 15, 2026

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca, and most importantly, guest Héctor Abad, as they discuss his book ASIDE FROM MY HEART, ALL IS WELL, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and recently published by Archipelago Books here in the United States. Hang in until the end of the chat to see what everyone is currently reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss FIERCE ATTACHMENTS by Vivian Gornick. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in September.

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Aside From My Heart, All Is Well by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
The Farm by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Oblivion: A Memoir by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey
Ahora y en la hora by Héctor Abad Faciolince
Élisabeth by Éric Rohmer, translated from the French by Aaron Kerner
Even the Darkest Hour by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Prey for the Shadow by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Fortress of Evil by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
God's Fool at the Ends of the Earth by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick

Special thanks to Héctor for generously taking time to talk with us and to Cameron Saltsman at Archipelago for helping to facilitate this. And in case you missed Héctor's shout out to Jill Schoolman at Archipelago, please take note that he is especially appreciative of her gifts as an editor.

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Episode #45: Open Secrets, by Alice Munro Jun 12, 2026

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss OPEN SECRETS by Alice Munro and chat about their current reading. It is necessary to mention that this conversation contains content about sexual abuse, and some people may find it difficult to listen to.

For our next episode, we will discuss ASIDE FROM MY HEART, ALL IS WELL by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean. 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:

Open Secrets by Alice Munro
Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Another Country by James Baldwin
Who Do You Think They Are? By Alice Munro
Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
East of Dreams by Nastassja Martin
Foam by Kate Zambreno
In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie A. Fiedler
Make Believe by Mac Barnett
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Aside From My Heart, All Is Well by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

You might also be interested in:

"What Alice Munro Knew" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/magazine/alice-munro-andrea-skinner-abuse.html
"what I'm doing about alice munro" https://blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-doing-about-alice-munro

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Episode #44: The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor Apr 10, 2026

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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Episode #43: Orlando, by Virginia Woolf Mar 13, 2026

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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Episode #42: The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope Feb 03, 2026

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 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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Episode #36: The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett Jun 11, 2025

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

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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 #35: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Apr 28, 2025

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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Episode #34: The Trees, by Percival Everett Apr 06, 2025

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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Episode #33: We Do Not Part, by Han Kang Mar 07, 2025

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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Episode #32: Mobility, by Lydia Kiesling Feb 06, 2025

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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Episode #31: In Conversation with Rohan Maitzen About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Dec 24, 2024

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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Episode #30: Overstaying, by Ariane Koch Dec 02, 2024

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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Episode #29: Fragments of a Paradise, by Jean Giono Nov 05, 2024

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.

Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org.

Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail

Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright

Frances: @nonsuchbook

Dorian: @ds228

Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes

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.

Episode #28: The House in Paris, by Elizabeth Bowen Sep 23, 2024

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.

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

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

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

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Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes

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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 #27: Summer Reading 2024 Sep 02, 2024

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

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

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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.

Bonus Episode #3: In Conversation with David Naimon Jul 11, 2024

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

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

Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org.

Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail

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Frances: @nonsuchbook

Dorian: @ds228

Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes

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.

Episode #26: The Wedding, by Dorothy West Jul 01, 2024

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.

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

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

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

Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org.

Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail

Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright

Frances: @nonsuchbook

Dorian: @ds228

Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes

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.

Episode #25: La Bête Humaine, by Emile Zola May 27, 2024

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.

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

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

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

Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org.

Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail

Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright

Frances: @nonsuchbook

Dorian: @ds228

Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes

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.

Episode #24: During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, by Joan Chase Apr 23, 2024

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.

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

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

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

Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org.

Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail

Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright

Frances: @nonsuchbook

Dorian: @ds228

Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes

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.

Episode #23: The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück Mar 25, 2024

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.

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

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

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

Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org.

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Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes

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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 #22: Harriet Hume, by Rebecca West Feb 06, 2024

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.

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

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

More links of interest are available on our website.

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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 #21: In Conversation with John Williams About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2024 Dec 19, 2023

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.

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

Click here for a full list of books mentioned in this episode.

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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 #20: A Mercy, by Toni Morrison Dec 05, 2023

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.

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

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

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

Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org.

Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail

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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 #19: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy Nov 06, 2023

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.

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

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

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

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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 #18: Map: Collected and Last Poems, by Wislawa Szymborska Oct 13, 2023

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.

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

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

Bonus Episode #2: In Conversation with Anton Hur Oct 09, 2023

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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Episode #17: Mrs. S, by K Patrick Aug 22, 2023

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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Bonus Episode #1: Edith Wharton's The Mount Jul 20, 2023

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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Episode #16: An I-Novel, by Minae Mizumura Jun 26, 2023

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.

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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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Episode #15: Space Crone, by Ursula K. Le Guin Jun 07, 2023

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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Episode #14: The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence Apr 19, 2023

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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Episode #13: Maud Martha, by Gwendolyn Brooks Mar 10, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Episode #2: The Volcano Lover, by Susan Sontag Mar 25, 2022

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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Episode #1: Introduction to One Bright Book Mar 14, 2022

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: