One Bright Book

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! Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! 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 You might also be interested in: The Yale Review. 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 Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.

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? Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! 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. 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 Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.  

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. Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! 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 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 Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.

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. Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! 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   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 Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.

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! Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! 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 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 Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.

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. Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! 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. Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail Find us on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.  

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. Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! 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. 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 Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.

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 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 Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.

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/ 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 Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.

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. Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! 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 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 Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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. 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.  

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 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.

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.  

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.     Read More  

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.

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. 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.