Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss MAUD MARTHA by Gwendolyn Brooks and chat about their current 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

And you might be interested in:

Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha, and Other Immortal Mortals https://lithub.com/gwendolyn-brooks-maud-martha-and-other-immortal-mortals/

Nobody Knows My Name: Manuel Muñoz on Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/891-nobody-knows-my-name-manuel-munoz-on-gwendolyn-brookss-maud-martha

“We Real Cool” – https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28112/we-real-cool

On Eileen Myles’ Inferno, and the “Poets Novel” – https://lithub.com/on-eileen-myles-inferno-and-the-poets-novel/

Inferno (a poet’s novel) by Eileen Myles – https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/inferno-a-poets-novel/

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss LOTE by Shola von Reinhold and chat about their current 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

Notable dialogue in this month’s episode includes references to “the upsides of hedonism” and “it gets a bit Scooby Doo.”

Links of possible interest:

Interview with Shola von Reinhold: ‘It felt like Hermia Fabulated herself out of the archive’

Interview with Shola von Reinhold: ‘It felt like Hermia Fabulated herself out of the archive’

The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman Talks to Shola von Reinhold

The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman Talks to Shola von Reinhold

Shola von Reinhold x Eley Willliams: Republic of Consciousness 2021 Shortlist Conversations

Welcome to One Bright Book! 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. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you at the end of January.

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Books mentioned:

• The Poetics of Wrongness by Rachel Zucker
• Mothers by Rachel Zucker
• Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Michael Hoffman
• Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
• The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky, translated from the Russian by Douglas Smith
• Wall by Jen Craig
• Panthers and the Museum of Fire by Jen Craig
• Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
• River by Esther Kinsky, translated from the German by Iain Galbraith
• Rombo by Esther Kinsky, translated from the German by Caroline Schmidt
• Grove by Esther Kinsky, translated from the German by Caroline Schmidt
• Divine Days by Leon Forrest
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
• In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
• Malicroix by Henri Bosco, translated from the French by Joyce Zonana
• The Child and the River by Henri Bosco, translated from the French by Joyce Zonana
• Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
• The Long Form by Kate Briggs
• This Little Art by Kate Briggs
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
• This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes
• Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes
• All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
• Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
• The Light Room by Kate Zambreno
• Tone by Kate Zambreno and Sofia Samatar
• Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler
• The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, translated from the Japanese by David Boyd
• Affinities by Brian Dillon
• Essayism by Brian Dillon
• Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
• Charles Portis: Collected Works, edited by Jay Jennings
• The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True Life and Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger
• A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro, translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle
• Lote by Shola von Reinhold

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS written by Kate Beaton and chat about their current 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. Listen in, and please comment here on your most anticipated books for the coming year. We would love to hear what you are looking forward to reading!

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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

Other things you might want to consider:

• Edward Burtynsky (website) https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
• Manufactured Landscapes https://www.netflixmovies.com/manufactured-landscapes-2006

Best quote from the episode: “I’m so basic.” – Dorian Stuber

The name of Rebecca’s band revealed: Flailing on the Inside

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss TO WRITE AS IF ALREADY DEAD written by Kate Zambreno and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss DUCKS by Kate Beaton. Read along with us if you like!

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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

Other things you might want to consider:

• The Funeral by Manet –https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436952
• Kate Briggs and Kate Zambreno in Conversation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adqjHjBTGeg
• An excerpt from the text from the Paris Review – https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/06/08/chronology-of-a-body/
• Kate Zambreno and Moyra Davey in Conversation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_awEuECH_Jo&t=2s

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss TO WRITE AS IF ALREADY DEAD by Kate Zambreno. Read along with us if you like!

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

Books mentioned:

• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
• Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Ramona books by Beverly Cleary
• The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
• Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat
• The Curse of the Viking Grave by Farley Mowat
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
• The Smartest Bear and His Brother Oliver by Alice Bach
• The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick
• Flaneuse by Lauren Elkin
• The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy
• The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle
• The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick
• Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
• Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy
• Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
• Essayism by Brian Dillon
• Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon
• To Write As If Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
• To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert

Books Read in Childhood That We Are Sure We Misunderstood:

• P.G. Wodehouse books
• Gerald Durrell books
• Agatha Christie books
• Sherlock Holmes stories
• Charles Dickens books
• Louisa May Alcott books
• Isaac Asimov books
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Welcome to One Bright Book! 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!

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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

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss ILL FEELINGS by Alice Hattrick and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton. Read along with us if you like!

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

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

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss LOLLY WILLOWES by Sylvia Townsend Warner and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss ILL FEELINGS by Alice Hattrick. Read along with us if you like!

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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

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss GRAVEL HEART by Abdulrazak Gurnah and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss LOLLY WILLOWES by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Read along with us if you like!

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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