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One Bright Book

Podcast One Bright Book
Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca
A podcast where three friends read *all* the books, one book at a time. Join Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss one book in depth and chat about thei...

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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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  • Episode #32: Mobility, by Lydia Kiesling
    Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Frances, and Rebecca as they discuss MOBILITY by Lydia Kiesling, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will discuss WE DO NOT PART by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late February. Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! Books mentioned: Mobility by Lydia Kiesling The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris A Passage to India by E. M. Forster The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, translated from the German by John E. Woods Challenger by Adam Higginbotham The Achilles Trap by Stephen Coll When the Clock Broke by John Ganz Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir Middlemarch by George Eliot Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton 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 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 #31: In Conversation with Rohan Maitzen About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2025
    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 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 Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes 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 #30: Overstaying, by Ariane Koch
    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) 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 Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes 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 #29: Fragments of a Paradise, by Jean Giono
    Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Rebecca, and Dorian as they discuss FRAGMENTS OF A PARADISE by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Paul Eprile, 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/ 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 Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes 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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A podcast where three friends read *all* the books, one book at a time. Join Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss one book in depth and chat about their reading. Visit our website at onebrightbook.com Support us by buying books from our shop at https://bookshop.org/shop/OneBrightBook Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca writes a newsletter at 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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