Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca, and most importantly, guest Héctor Abad, as they discuss his book ASIDE FROM MY HEART, ALL IS WELL, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and recently published by Archipelago Books here in the United States. Hang in until the end of the chat to see what everyone is currently reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss FIERCE ATTACHMENTS by Vivian Gornick. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in September.

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• Aside From My Heart, All Is Well by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
• The Farm by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
• Oblivion: A Memoir by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey
• Ahora y en la hora by Héctor Abad Faciolince
• Élisabeth by Éric Rohmer, translated from the French by Aaron Kerner
• Even the Darkest Hour by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
• Prey for the Shadow by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
• Fortress of Evil by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
• God’s Fool at the Ends of the Earth by Javier Cercas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
• Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
• Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick

Special thanks to Héctor for generously taking time to talk with us and to Cameron Saltsman at Archipelago for helping to facilitate this. And in case you missed Héctor’s shout out to Jill Schoolman at Archipelago, please take note that he is especially appreciative of her gifts as an editor.

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Frances, and Rebecca as they discuss Open Secrets by Alice Munro and chat about their current reading. It is necessary to mention that this conversation contains content about sexual abuse, and some people may find it difficult to listen to.

For our next episode, we will discuss ASIDE FROM MY HEART, ALL IS WELL by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in July.

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

Buy our book! Support the show by buying a copy of Sarah Orne Jewett’s A Marsh Island, with an afterword by us.

• Open Secrets by Alice Munro
• Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
• The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• Another Country by James Baldwin
• Who Do You Think They Are? By Alice Munro
• Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
• East of Dreams by Nastassja Martin
• Foam by Kate Zambreno
• In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
• Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie A. Fiedler
• Make Believe by Mac Barnett
• Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
• Aside From My Heart, All Is Well by Héctor Abad, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

You might also be interested in:

• “What Alice Munro Knew” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/magazine/alice-munro-andrea-skinner-abuse.html
• “what I’m doing about alice munro” https://blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-doing-about-alice-munro

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.

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

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