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.

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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

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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.

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Rebecca: https://bsky.app/profile/ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social

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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, 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

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Dorian's blog: https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/

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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, 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.

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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.

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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.

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.