Episode #42: The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
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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. Want to support the show? Visit us at or click on the links below and buy some books! Books mentioned: by Anthony Trollope by Fanny Trollope...
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Episode #41: In Conversation with Sam Sacks About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
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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. Want to support the show? Visit us at or click on the links below and buy some books! Books mentioned: by...
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Episode #40: I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman
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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will be joined by book critic Sam Sacks for our fourth (!!!) annual most anticipated books episode. We will each come to the table with three books that we are excited to see published in 2026. Will we duplicate each other's choices? Will each of have enough choices in reserve to pivot if necessary? Will someone cheat and present more than three...
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Bonus Episode #4: Dorian Stuber and Rohan Maitzen Discuss Vanity Fair
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Welcome to One Bright Book! Rebecca and Frances move out of the picture for this bonus episode where Dorian gets a chance to finally discuss VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray with his one time professor and always friend, Rohan Maitzen. A rare and special opportunity to revisit the book from the syllabus that he blew off reading. "You can never entirely escape your sins!" Ready for some time well-spent in the 19th century? Want to support the show? Visit us at or click on the links below and buy some books! Books Mentioned: by William Makepeace Thackeray by Charles Dickens ...
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Episode #39: The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington
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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE STONE DOOR by Leonora Carrington, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, with an afterword by Sophie Mackintosh. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you sometime this fall. Yes, that time frame is vague but we like to be truthful. Want to support the show? Visit us at or click on the links below and buy some books!...
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Episode #38: Miaow, by Benito Pérez Galdós
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Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss MIAOW by , translated from the Spanish by , 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 or click on the links below and buy some books! Books mentioned: by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa by Frederic Jameson ...
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Episode #37: There's Always This Year, by Hanif Abdurraqib
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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 or click on the links below and buy some books! Books Mentioned: by Hanif Abdurraqib ...
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Episode #36: The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett
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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 or click on the links below and buy some books! Books mentioned: by Sarah Orne Jewett by Sarah Orne Jewett by Sherwood Anderson by Willa...
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Episode #35: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
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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 or click on the links below and buy some books! Books mentioned: • by Willa Cather • by Willa Cather • by Willa Cather • by Willa Cather • by Walt Whitman • by Uzma...
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Episode #34: The Trees, by Percival Everett
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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: by Percival Everett by Percival Everett by Percival Everett by Percival Everett by Percival Everett by Paul Beatty by Lauren Elkin by Solvej Balle, translated from the Dutch by Barbara J. Haveland by Mircea Cărtărescu,...
info_outlineWelcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances and Dorian as they discuss THE WILD IRIS by Louise Glück, and chat about their current reading.
For our next episode, we will discuss DURING THE REIGN OF THE QUEEN OF PERSIA by Joan Chase. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late April.
Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books!
Books mentioned:
- The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
- Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück
- Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück
- Proof and Theories: Essays on Poetry by Louise Glück
- American Originality: Essays on Poetry by Louise Glück
- Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely
- Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman
- Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
- Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
- Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
- The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
- Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
- Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
- Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
- A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
- Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches
- Lost On Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
- What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
- Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
- Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt
- During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
You might also be interested in:
- Louise Glück Nobel Lecture - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/gluck/lecture/
- Remembering Louise Glück by Garth Greenwell - https://garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/remembering-louise-gluck-1943-2023
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