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

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Books mentioned:

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

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

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Books mentioned:

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

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

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

Books mentioned:

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

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

Books mentioned:

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

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

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

Books mentioned:

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

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

Books mentioned:

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

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

Books mentioned:

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

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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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Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/

Rebecca writes a newsletter at https://readingindie.substack.com/

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