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!

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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

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Beyond the Zero Podcast: Katie Whittemore speaking about her translations of Attila by Alicocha Coll and Attila by Javier Serena

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

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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

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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

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

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)

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Rebecca, and Dorian as they discuss FRAGMENTS OF A PARADISE by Jean Giono, 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/