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

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

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Books mentioned:

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

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Frances: @nonsuchbook

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

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

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

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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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 [email protected]. 

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

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Books Mentioned:

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

You might also be interested in:

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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

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.