Best David Naimon Podcasts (2025)

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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…

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Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records 2:00:32

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The Book of Records is many things: a book of historical fiction and speculative fiction, a meditation on time and on space-time, on storytelling and truth, on memory and the imagination, a book that impossibly conjures the lives and eras of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu and the political theorist Hannah Arendt not as …

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water 2:01:04

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What would it mean for our writing, thinking, and living if we looked to land as pedagogy, or if we thought of theory as something embodied and kinetic? In Theory of Water Leanne Betasamosake Simpson takes us not only outside the academy, and away from our screens, but outside and into the world at large as part of a reconsideration of what and who…

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Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers 2:25:57

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From the craft of writing sex in poetry to the virtues of failing publicly, today’s conversation with poet Keetje Kuipers is not to be missed. We explore everything from storytelling within poems to the dialectic between control and wildness; everything from queerness and wilderness to fantasy as a portal to truth on the page. Keetje’s contribution…

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Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes 2:21:31

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What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, and in one’s life? Or for water to be one’s method, mode or muse? Are inherited forms (of womanhood, of sexuality, of national identity) a gift or are their borders meant to be crossed and breached? Together we look at forms and norms in Patrycja’s poetry, at bringing unruly forces into on…

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Torrey Peters : Stag Dance 2:18:27

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Four novellas, in four different genres—science fiction, horror, teen romance, and a western—Stag Dance not only interrogates genre, but gender through genre. Written over a ten year period, Torrey Peters’ new book spans a decade when her own views and insights about gender were themselves changing. Placing these four novellas in conversation with …

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Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice 2:02:36

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Today’s guest, one of Australia’s most celebrated and daring writers, Michelle de Kretser, discusses her latest uncategorizable book Theory & Practice (one she describes as 80% fiction, 15% essay and 5% memoir). Theory & Practice is a book that is wildly erudite and erotic at the same time, both an engrossing, immersive read and one that is constan…

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Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 2:12:55

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In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets of rubble, every building, one to the next, a hollow blown-out shell of itself. No people, no animals, the only sound the strained breath of this man…

David 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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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

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Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records 2:00:32

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water 2:01:04

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Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers 2:25:57

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Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes 2:21:31

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Torrey Peters : Stag Dance 2:18:27

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Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice 2:02:36

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Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 2:12:55