David Naimon
Writer and host of the book podcast Between the Covers
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Between the Covers Podcast
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Báyò Akómoláfé : Selah | Milkweed Editions
Báyò Akómoláfé : Selah | Milkweed Editions
If we were to take seriously that we, as humans, aren’t the sole authors of our world, that there are other intelligences at play, that we are only one of many agents of change and transformation, and that “we” aren’t even entirely ourselves given that “we” are composed of many “others,” many strangers that nevertheless […]
Milkweed Live : Canisia Lubrin : The World After Rain | Milkweed Editions
Milkweed Live : Canisia Lubrin : The World After Rain | Milkweed Editions
Canisia Lubrin returns to Between the Covers for a live conversation in downtown Portland, at Powell’s Bookstore, about her latest poetry collection The World After Rain. A private book, that Canisia never intended to publish, we explore what it means to write elegy beyond personal biography, what it means that “metaphors unmake the too-made,” what it […]
Register for the 2/14 CREATURE NEEDS webinar: Thalia Field-David Naimon-Anne de Marcken
Register for the 2/14 CREATURE NEEDS webinar: Thalia Field-David Naimon-Anne de Marcken
From the Archives : Jake Skeets : Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers | Milkweed Editions
From the Archives : Jake Skeets : Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers | Milkweed Editions
Today’s episode is a classic from the archives, a conversation from 2019 with current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets about his debut poetry collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. Winner of the Whiting Award in poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, there is no better time to revisit this remarkable collection, […]
Sangamithra Iyer : Governing Bodies : A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed | Milkweed Editions
Sangamithra Iyer : Governing Bodies : A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed | Milkweed Editions
“When I tell you a story about my body, I cannot separate it from a story about water. And a story about water is also a story about family. And a story about family is rooted in the earth…,” opens Sangamithra Iyer’s Governing Bodies. What does it mean for a memoir to assume the elusive, ever-changing […]
Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform - Tin House
Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform - Tin House
In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion of “moments of being” as a means and method to find the form that best fits your specific story to tell. We […]
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront questions of silence and complicity in their respective fields. As Israel intensifies its bombardment of Gaza, and as an eighteen-year-old student at a local Islamic […]
Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords - Tin House
Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords - Tin House
Jorge Luis Borges called her the “Tolstoy of Mexico” and César Aira the “greatest novelist of the 20th century,” so why is it likely that you haven’t read or even heard of Elena Garro before now? And given that Garro was, like her fantastical stories, not beholden to the truth when accounting her own life, […]
Tin House Live : Caren Beilin : Sea Poison - Tin House
Tin House Live : Caren Beilin : Sea Poison - Tin House
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
Tin House Live: Stephen Hayes - Tin House
Tin House Live: Stephen Hayes - Tin House
Painter Stephen Hayes latest exhibition, “Elegy,” consists of twelve abstract paintings that engage with the genocide in Gaza. One of the twelve paintings was created while listening to the Between the Covers conversation with Omar El Akkad about his book One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Because of this, instead of asking, […]
Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire - Tin House
Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire - Tin House
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewis, the composer Vijay Iyer, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and the visual artist Julie Mehretu. This multimedia quartet traveled to Athens together to engage with the Cavafy archives as part of the composition of […]
Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts - Tin House
Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts - Tin House
As an artist, how does one dive into the wreck of an archive, a canon, a shared collective memory, a history—one filled with silenced voices, distorted accounts, erasures and elisions—on behalf of those wronged by it? Poet Dionne Brand says “the salvage is the life which exceeds the wreck” and Diana Arterian’s work seems animated […]
Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House
Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House
Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannily other from primary sources, has been heralded as a “devilishly subversive feminist anthem” and speaks as much to the present […]
Arthur Sze : The Glass Constellation : New & Collected Poems - Tin House
Arthur Sze : The Glass Constellation : New & Collected Poems - Tin House
Arthur Sze, winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry for Sight Lines, joins David Naimon to discuss his latest book, The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems. Together they step back to take in a half century of Arthur’s work, not only how it has changed and why, tracking the growth of a […]
Rickey Laurentiis : Death of the First Idea - Tin House
Rickey Laurentiis : Death of the First Idea - Tin House
Ten years in the making, poet Rickey Laurentiis joins us to talk about her much-anticipated remarkable new collection Death of the First Idea. “In the past decade, as Laurentiis has transitioned, her ideas of the lyric and poetry have transformed, as has the America in which she lives,” says the back copy on this book, whose […]
Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand - Tin House
Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand - Tin House
An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival
An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival
Martha Anne Toll : Duet for One - Tin House
Martha Anne Toll : Duet for One - Tin House
Rob Macaisa Colgate : Hardly Creatures & My Love is Water - Tin House
Rob Macaisa Colgate : Hardly Creatures & My Love is Water - Tin House
Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive? - Tin House
Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive? - Tin House
adrienne maree brown : Ancestors - Tin House
adrienne maree brown : Ancestors - Tin House
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o : The Language of Languages - Tin House
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o : The Language of Languages - Tin House
Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records - Tin House
Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records - Tin House
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water - Tin House
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water - Tin House
Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers - Tin House
Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers - Tin House
Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes - Tin House
Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes - Tin House
Torrey Peters : Stag Dance - Tin House
Torrey Peters : Stag Dance - Tin House
Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice - Tin House
Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice - Tin House
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
Canisia Lubrin : Code Noir - Tin House
Canisia Lubrin : Code Noir - Tin House
Hélène Cixous : Rêvoir - Tin House
Hélène Cixous : Rêvoir - Tin House
Aria Aber : Good Girl - Tin House
Aria Aber : Good Girl - Tin House
Zahid Rafiq : The World With Its Mouth Open - Tin House
Zahid Rafiq : The World With Its Mouth Open - Tin House
Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2004 - Tin House
Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2004 - Tin House
Rodrigo Fresán : Melvill - Tin House
Rodrigo Fresán : Melvill - Tin House
Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck - Tin House
Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck - Tin House
Danez Smith : Bluff - Tin House
Danez Smith : Bluff - Tin House
Kenzie Allen : Cloud Missives - Tin House
Kenzie Allen : Cloud Missives - Tin House
Tin House Live : Torrey Peters on Strategic Opacity - Tin House
Tin House Live : Torrey Peters on Strategic Opacity - Tin House
Jewish Currents Live : Dionne Brand & Adania Shibli in Conversation - Tin House
Jewish Currents Live : Dionne Brand & Adania Shibli in Conversation - Tin House
Isabella Hammad : Recognizing the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative - Tin House
Isabella Hammad : Recognizing the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative - Tin House
Tin House Live : Frank Bidart
Tin House Live : Frank Bidart
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Nalo Hopkinson : Blackheart Man - Conversation
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