Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro

Send us Fan MailNovelist 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 CéspedesHer Side of the Story by Alba de CéspedesMuriel Rukeyser poem “Kathë Kollwitz”Hell or High Water by Joy CastroFlight Risk by Joy CastroIsland of Bones by Joy CastroOne Brilliant Flame by Joy CastroThe Truth Book by Joy Castro“Burning It Down” by Joy CastroLost Ladies of Lit episode on Margery LatimerLost Ladies of Lit episode on E.M. DelafieldLost Ladies of Lit episode on Miriam KarpiloveLost Ladies of Lit episode on Lorraine HansberryLiterary scholar Merve Emre Carlos Manuel de CéspedesMariama Bâ’s So Long a LetterMercé RodoredaElena FerranteKatherine MansfieldVirginia Woolf’s Mrs. DallowayKate Chopin’s The AwakeningNatalia Ginsburg’s essay “On Women” in Mercurio and a response by Alba de CéspedesAmerica Ferrera speech in Barbie movieReal Women Have CurvesRhi JohnsonSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter.Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast