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

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss WOMAN RUNNING IN THE MOUNTAINS by Yūko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss GRAVEL HEART by Abdulrazak Gurnah. 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:

• 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

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. 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 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

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!

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

Books mentioned:

• Panthers and the Museum of Fire by Jen Craig
• Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
• Nostalgia by Mircea Cartarescu, translated by Julian Semilian
• Susan Sontag by Benjamin Moser
• Reborn: Journals and Notebook, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag and David Reiff
• Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography by Muriel Spark
• Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag and Benjamin Taylor
• Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
• Devil House by John Darnielle
• Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
• The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• The Employees by Olga Ravn
• The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag