224. Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro
Hiatus Encore: Novelist and university professor Joy Castro returns to the show to discuss the 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Cespedes. In a New York Times review of a 1958 English edition of this novel, de Céspedes was called “one of the few distinguished women writers since Colette to grapple effectively with what it is to be a woman.”
Discussed:
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes
Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes
Muriel Rukeyser poem “Kathë Kollwitz”
Hell or High Water by Joy Castro
One Brilliant Flame by Joy Castro
“Burning It Down” by Joy Castro
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