Best Naimon Podcasts (2025)

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Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline 1:56:31

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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 …

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Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords 1:58:43

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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, and given that her own life was, in its ra…

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Tin House Live : Caren Beilin : Sea Poison 1:16:08

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Caren Beilin’s first appearance on the show, in 2022 to discuss her book Revenge of the Scapegoat, was so unforgettable, and spurred so much enthusiasm and electrifying conversation in its wake, that I couldn’t say “no” to being in conversation with her again, this time live at Powell’s Bookstore, to discuss her latest book Sea, Poison out with New…

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Tin House Live: Stephen Hayes

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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, as he…

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Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire 2:40:51

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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 …

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Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts 2:12:56

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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 by this work of sa…

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Olga Ravn : The Wax Child 2:16:42

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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 moment as it does to th…

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Rickey Laurentiis : Death of the First Idea 1:59:56

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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 poetry fittingly resist…

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Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand 1:49:46

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What does it mean to write toward or under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in homage, as a celebration of another? What happens to language when it hovers between two writers, between how they each separately inhabit it? What does it say about the self, or is discovered about it—within the poem and in the world at large—when that sel…

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Martha Anne Toll : Duet for One 1:54:02

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Today’s guest is writer and critic Martha Anne Toll. Through a discussion of her latest novel Duet for One we explore the perennial mystery of writing and art-making, namely how to render something that lives beyond representation, and how words can become a vehicle to evoke what words themselves cannot adequately describe. In this case, we look at…

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Rob Macaisa Colgate : Hardly Creatures & My Love is Water 2:32:30

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Today’s conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate is about two books, his poetry collection Hardly Creatures and his verse drama My Love is Water. You could say these two books are approaching the same questions, but from opposite, if complementary vantage points. Questions of care and disability, of accessibility and community, of Filipino-American id…

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Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive? 2:12:14

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Don’t miss today’s conversation with Robert Macfarlane. A polyvocal deep dive into the mysteries of words and rivers, of speech acts as spells, whorls as worlds, of grammars of animacy, of what it means to river, and to be rivered. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Virginia Woolf’s wave in the mind to Ursula K. Le Guin’s fellow feeling to Leanne Betasa…

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adrienne maree brown : Ancestors 2:23:56

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With the arrival of Ancestors, the third and final book in adrienne maree brown’s Grievers Trilogy, we take the iconic frames she has created in her nonfiction work—emergent strategy, pleasure activism, fractal responsibility, loving corrections and more—and look at how they are dramatized within this fictional near-future Detroit. Much as the thre…

Naimon Podcasts

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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

David Naimon, Tin House Books

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Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline 1:56:31

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Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords 1:58:43

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Tin House Live : Caren Beilin : Sea Poison 1:16:08

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Tin House Live: Stephen Hayes

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Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire 2:40:51

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Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts 2:12:56

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Olga Ravn : The Wax Child 2:16:42

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Rickey Laurentiis : Death of the First Idea 1:59:56

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Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand 1:49:46

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Martha Anne Toll : Duet for One 1:54:02

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Rob Macaisa Colgate : Hardly Creatures & My Love is Water 2:32:30

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Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive? 2:12:14

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adrienne maree brown : Ancestors 2:23:56