Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro

Send us Fan Mail

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 Mercurio and a response by Alba de Céspedes

America Ferrera speech in Barbie movie

Real Women Have Curves

Rhi Johnson

Support the show

For episodes and show notes, visit: 

LostLadiesofLit.com

Subscribe to our substack newsletter.

Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. 

Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast