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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 · 4d
New episode! We discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN, by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz. We'd love to know your thoughts on the book!
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bookcritics.bsky.social
We are incredibly grateful to be one of Poetry Foundation’s 2025 grantee-partners as the recipient of a general operating support grant!
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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onebrightbook.bsky.social
Have you listened to our latest episode yet???
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Episode 40: I Who Have Never Known Men
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 a…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
THE MEZZANINE by Nicholson Baker
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
I’m really enjoying this episode, and not just because of all the @onebrightbook.bsky.social mentions — what a fascinating topic book collection culling/pruning is! It’s something I’m thinking about a lot as books pour in and available space is disappearing in my house.
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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In which we take on TikTok
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Coffee shop reading.
Zadie Smith’s DEAD AND ALIVE: ESSAYS
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
New poem from Kasey Jueds!
psalteryandlyre.bsky.social Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 5d
"Enter through a goneness, the way snow / finds the hole in the roof..."

"Each Time as Suddenly" by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social

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Each Time as Suddenly
by Kasey Jueds
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November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
New episode! We discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN, by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz. We'd love to know your thoughts on the book!
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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nonsuchbook.bsky.social
Happy November 18 to those who celebrate.
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Tomorrow is November 18th, everyone — will we make it out?
On the Calculation of Volume II, by Solvej Balle, tr. Barbara Haveland
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Episode coming this week!
nonsuchbook.bsky.social Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 6d
Another fun conversation with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social for the next episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social Coming to you… sometime this week. What can I say? We do this for giggles! 🤭
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Podcast recording today! I'm looking forward to hearing what @nonsuchbook.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social make of I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN for @onebrightbook.bsky.social.
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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bookcritics.bsky.social
NBCC Tech VP and Membership Co-VP Rebecca Hussey reviewed "Sea Now," written by Eva Meijer and translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo, for Words Without Borders:
How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s Sea Now - Words Without Borders
Sea Now hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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SEA NOW hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey. Read the book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

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How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s Sea Now - Words Without Borders
Sea Now hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey.
wordswithoutborders.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Love to settle into my cozy armchair for an afternoon of reading on a rainy October day only to hear a dripping noise out in the hallway that means I’m going to need a new roof 😬
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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🎉🎉🎉

#AContinuation25 #KateBriggs24
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS
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BOOK REVIEW“They—all of us—are way behind, stuck in the old, familiar, small ways of thinking and unable to grasp the vast changes going on around us. ”**"How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s 'Sea Now'"**by Rebecca Hussey. Image: Book cover, drawing of cow on top of rock on water.
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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onebrightbook.bsky.social
29 years ago @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social assigned me this book. I did not read it. But now I have performed my teshuvah (repentance)...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Special episode with very special guest @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social!
October 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
My review of SEA, NOW is up at @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s Sea Now - Words Without Borders
Sea Now hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey.
wordswithoutborders.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
BONUS One Bright Book episode on the way!
onebrightbook.bsky.social One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · 27d
Don't look now but a special BONUS episode of the pod is coming your way! Featuring @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social and this bad boy
The cover of the Oxford World's Classics edition of Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
October 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Listen to Darby, people!
darby3.chickenwing-gingerbreadman.xyz Darby @darby3.chickenwing-gingerbreadman.xyz · 29d
In other news I listened to the @onebrightbook.bsky.social episode on this today and it was SO GOOD. It's exactly the kind of book that you read and then at the end you're like, wait, what, I need to talk about it or hear other people talking about it, and the conversation on the ep was perfect.
October 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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❤️❤️❤️
nonsuchbook.bsky.social Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · Oct 23
A few years ago, seemingly on a whim, @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social and I started a podcast. And it’s been a tremendous amount of fun. Today’s zippy conversation was a celebration. Of our friendship and shared loves of literature. ❤️
onebrightbook.bsky.social One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · Oct 23
Exciting day for the pod! Recorded the conversation that will feature as the afterword to the forthcoming @unnamedpress.bsky.social edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's MARSH ISLAND!
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Very excited about this! Look for A MARSH ISLAND with our afterword next summer!
onebrightbook.bsky.social One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · Oct 23
Exciting day for the pod! Recorded the conversation that will feature as the afterword to the forthcoming @unnamedpress.bsky.social edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's MARSH ISLAND!
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM