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Rebecca Hussey

@ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social

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Mostly bookish. NBCC Board Member/VP Membership and Tech. Books newsletter: Reading Indie on Substack. Co-host of One Bright Book podcast. #KateBriggs24 #AContinuation25 she/her You'll find me on my ebike.

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 12d

The new One Bright Book episode is out! After careful thought, we decided not to break up over what happened…

One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · 12d

Episode 39 is live, and it might be one of our best!
We discuss Leonora Carrington's singular THE STONE DOOR--and never has our love for each other been more tested!
onebrightbook.com/2025/10/03/e...

Episode 39: The Stone Door

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 wil…

onebrightbook.com

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 1d

“The book is, like the planet, in transition.”

“This book attempts to describe the modalities of this dysphoric and revolutionary present. Not something that happened in a mythical past or that will happen in a messianic future, but something that is happening. Happening to us. Something in which we are actively involved. For this reason, this book intentionally brings together a series of texts that cannot be identified by their belonging to a specific genre. In the same way that the speaking body uses language to undo the presumption of a feminine or masculine gender political position, what is said and how it is expressed seeks to escape assignment to a literary genre. It is a dysphoric or, perhaps better, nonbinary book: it aims to eschew conventional distinctions between theory and practice, philosophy and literature, science and poetry, politics and art, anatomy and psychology, sociology and skin, the everyday and the extraordinary, the mundane and the incomprehensible, garbage and meaning. Among the elements that compose this book, there are diary entries, theoretical hypotheses, measurements of the microtremors caused by the movement of complex systems of knowledge, collections of a body's fluctuations of pain or pleasure, but also linguistic rituals, hymns, lyrics and letters whose recipients never asked me to write them. The first version was written as a mosaic of three languages (French, Spanish and English) which, far from having borders between them, mingle like the contaminated waters of a dying estuary. The book is, like the planet, in transition.”

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 1d

(Of course, you’re right)

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 1d

Well, shit, way to turn things really dark!

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 2d

We know what the real problem is.

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 4d

On Monday, Oct 20 at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET, please join us on Zoom for "Criticism 101: Interviewing Fundamentals” led by Adam Dalva, current NBCC president.

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 4d

❤️❤️❤️

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 4d

A remarkable, much-needed political ad, and also read @katelynburns.com on her reaction to it: www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 4d

The Stein biography recently appeared in my house too (somehow).

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve read it twice now and love it so much!

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 6d

So, so glad you read with us and that it was a good experience!!

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 6d

Frequently the case.

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 6d

I can see why!!

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 7d

So good! I can’t wait to read the new one.

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 7d

To have Olga Ravn say to you, “If you ever need a witch…”!!!!!

David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 16d

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
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Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House

Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 9d

Train reading.

TO SAVE AND DESTROY, by Viet Than Nguyen.

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 12d

I think it depends on the book — this one was very different from The Hearing Trumpet, for example.

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you, Kim!!

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 12d

The new One Bright Book episode is out! After careful thought, we decided not to break up over what happened…

One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · 12d

Episode 39 is live, and it might be one of our best!
We discuss Leonora Carrington's singular THE STONE DOOR--and never has our love for each other been more tested!
onebrightbook.com/2025/10/03/e...

Episode 39: The Stone Door

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 wil…

onebrightbook.com

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Reposted by Rebecca Hussey

One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · 12d

Episode 39 is live, and it might be one of our best!
We discuss Leonora Carrington's singular THE STONE DOOR--and never has our love for each other been more tested!
onebrightbook.com/2025/10/03/e...

Episode 39: The Stone Door

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 wil…

onebrightbook.com

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 12d

Too bad it’s a podcast and no one will be able to witness it!

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 12d

Podcast episode on this book coming tomorrow!

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 12d

THE STONE DOOR episode comes out tomorrow on One Bright Book! This is an unusual episode for us — strange alliances, strong feelings, disagreements, rude gestures. You’ll want to listen. @onebrightbook.bsky.social @nonsuchbook.bsky.social @ds228.bsky.social

One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · 14d

Just another day or so until our latest episode drops... Hang in there! You got this!

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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, yes, YES! Yes to all of this. 👏

Fantastic partner content from @ctmirror.org
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E-bikes could cut carbon, congestion, and costs — if cities take them seriously

E-bike sales are booming, providing a sustainable form of transportation that improves public health. Yet cities remain committed to cars.

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 13d

So sorry! I hope you feel better soon!

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 15d

Yes! I loved it.

Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 16d

This conversation will be great! It’s free — just register.

National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 16d

Join us on October 7 as we talk with Gwendolyn Harper translator of the late Pedro Lemebel’s “A Last Supper of Queer Apostles,” winner of the 2024 Barrios Book in Translation Prize!

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Register at tinyurl.com/2025translation

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