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!

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Books Mentioned:

• There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
• They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
• A Fortune For Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib
• A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Be Holding: A Poem by Ross Gay
• Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer
• Theory and Practice by Michelle de Kretser
• Attila by Aliocha Coll, translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore
• Attila by Javier Serena, translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore
• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• Miaow by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

You might also be interested in:

Beyond the Zero Podcast: Katie Whittemore speaking about her translations of Attila by Alicocha Coll and Attila by Javier Serena

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