Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss MIAOW by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you sometime in late September.

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Books mentioned:

• Miaow by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
• The Antinomies of Realism by Frederic Jameson
• The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
• The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
• Anima: A Wild Pastoral by Kapka Kassabova
• Living by Henry Green
• People Like Us by Jason Mott
• Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Odd Women by George Gissing
• The Holiday by Stevie Smith
• Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz,translated from the German by Max Lawton
• Life A User’s Manual by Georges Perec, translated from the French by David Bellos
• The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington
• Angela Carter and Surrealism by Anna Walz
• A History of the Surrealist Novel edited by Anna Walz
• Surrealist Women’s Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Walz
• Opus Siniestrus by Leonora Carrington

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.

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

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