Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro

Send us a text 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 in this episode:  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 Flight Risk by Joy Castro Island of Bones by Joy Castro One Brilliant Flame by Joy Castro The Truth Book by Joy Castro “Burning It Down” by Joy Castro Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Margery Latimer Lost Ladies of Lit episode on E.M. Delafield Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Miriam Karpilove Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Lorraine Hansberry Literary scholar Merve Emre Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter Mercé Rodoreda Elena Ferrante Katherine Mansfield Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Natalia Ginsburg’s essay “On Women” in M Support the show For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast