Episode #37: There's Always This Year, by Hanif Abdurraqib
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! Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! 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 You might also be interested in: Beyond the Zero Podcast: Katie Whittemore speaking about her translations of Attila by Alicocha Coll and Attila by Javier Serena Further resources and links are available on our website at onebrightbook.com. Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org. Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail Find us on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Dorian's blog: https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca's newsletter: https://readingindie.substack.com/ Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.
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Episode #36: The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett
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 Further resources and links are available on our website at onebrightbook.com. Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org. Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail Find us on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Dorian's blog: https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca's newsletter: https://readingindie.substack.com/ Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.
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Episode #35: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
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 You might also be interested in "The Peace When It Settled: Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional" by Rohan Maitzen. Further resources and links are available on our website at onebrightbook.com. Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org. Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail Find us on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Dorian's blog: https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca's newsletter: https://readingindie.substack.com/ Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.
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Episode #34: The Trees, by Percival Everett
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 Further resources and links are available on our website at onebrightbook.com. Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org. Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail Find us on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Dorian's blog: https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca's newsletter: https://readingindie.substack.com/ Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.
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Episode #33: We Do Not Part, by Han Kang
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss WE DO NOT PART by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will discuss The Trees by Percival Everett. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in early April. Books mentioned: We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith Human Acts by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith The White Book by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith Greek Lessons by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden Like a Sky Inside by by Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry by Ryan Ruby The Trees by Percival Everett James by Percival Everett Erasure by Percival Everett You might also be interested in: Han Kang: Nobel Lecture - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/han/lecture/ The Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada - https://www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/ 2024 NBCC Awards Longlists - https://www.bookcritics.org/2025/01/19/2024-nbcc-awards-longlists/ 2024 NBCC Award Finalists - https://www.bookcritics.org/awards/ Further resources and links are available on our website at onebrightbook.com. Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org. Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail Find us on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/onebrightbook.bsky.social Frances: https://bsky.app/profile/nonsuchbook.bsky.social Dorian: https://bsky.app/profile/ds228.bsky.social Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Dorian's blog: https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca's newsletter: https://readingindie.substack.com/ Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.
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