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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian 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.
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Buy our book! Support the show by buying a copy of Sarah Orne Jewett's A Marsh Island, with an afterword by us.
Books mentioned:

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

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"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
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Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE by Gloria Naylor and chat about their current reading.
For our next episode, we will discuss OPEN SECRETS: STORIES by Alice Munro, weighing the value of her work against what we have recently learned of her personal life. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in May.
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Books mentioned:

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill
Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy by Clare Carlisle
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated from the Dutch by Martin Aitken
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated from the Dutch by David McKay
The Duke by Matteo Melchiorre, translated from the Italian by Antonella Lettieri
The Witch by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
Sakina's Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag, translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur
Open Secrets: Stories by Alice Munro
A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett, with an afterword from the One Bright Book crew.
Buy our book! Support the show by buying a copy of Sarah Orne Jewett's A Marsh Island, with an afterword by us.
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Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE by Gloria Naylor, a choice Rebecca has made based upon some love Hanif Abdurraqib shared for the novel in a recent podcast. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in April.

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Books mentioned:

Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aiken
The Witch by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated from the Dutch by David McKay
Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur, translated from the Persian by Faridoun Farrokh
Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin Ling
Small Comfort by Ia Genberg, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
Trouble Maker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan
Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern
Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Read Rohan Maitzen on Orlando at her blog Novel Readings.
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Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss THE WAY WE LIVE NOW by Anthony Trollope and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf, the "joyful romp," the "escapade" that might have you thinking of the author in a new way. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you around the end of February.

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Books mentioned:
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
The Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope
An Autobiography by Anthony Trollope
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Transylvanian Trilogy by Mikos Banffy
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled by Alex Green
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
Head of a Traveler by Nicholas Blake
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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The National Book Critics Circle Awards
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Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2026 with Sam Sacks, prominent book critic for The Wall Street Journal, writing the weekly "Fiction Chronicle," and a founding editor of Open Letters Monthly.

For our next episode, we will discuss The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late January.

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Books mentioned:

The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale
Opus Siniestra by Leonora Carrington
On the Calculation of Volume, Book IV by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999-2023 by Amit Chaudhuri
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
This Is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrique, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrique, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Ambivalence by Brian Dillon
Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle
Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir
Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple
Down Time by Andrew Martin
Early Work by Andrew Martin
Cool for America by Andrew Martin
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell
The Witch by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
That Time of Year by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
Twenty Minutes of Silence by Helene Bessette, translated from the French by Kate Briggs
Lilli Is Crying by Helene Bessette, translated from the French by Kate Briggs
The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
The Week of Colors by Elena Garro, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading by Francis Spufford
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Further resources and links are available on our website at onebrightbook.com.
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Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.