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Episode #6: Ill Feelings, by Alice Hattrick

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Show Notes

Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Alice Hattrick's book ILL FEELINGS and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton. Read along with us if you like! Books mentioned: Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick This Little Art by Kate Briggs Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf Heroines by Kate Zambreno Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Mata, Translated by Jonathan Dunne Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop, translated by Anne McLean Ennemonde by Jean Giano, translated by Bill Johnston An Impossible Love by Christine Angot, translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer Incest by Christine Angot, translated by Tess Lewis Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee The Communist by Guido Morselli, translated by Frederika Randall The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Visit us online 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 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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