David Naimon

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Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
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Shze-Hui Tjoa has written a memoir that is like no other I've ever read. Not an essay collection, but not not one. A nonfiction book, where, improbably—fiction, fantasy— make it a memoir. Don't miss today's conversation! Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/shze...

Shze-Hui Tjoa : The Story Game - Tin Housetinhouse.com Today’s guest, Shze-Hui Tjoa, has written a book that is remarkably unique. Is it an essay collection or a memoir? A detective story or a fantasy? A journey of self-individuation or an examination of ...

"Vance’s love of Lord of the Rings is of a piece with rightward nationalists abroad. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, used to cosplay as a hobbit. “I think that Tolkien could say better than us what conservatives believe in,” she has said. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

How Lord of the Rings Shaped JD Vance’s Politicswww.politico.com ‘A lot of my conservative worldview was influenced by Tolkien.’

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for those who listen to their podcasts on YouTube I finally set up a YouTube channel for Between the Covers (and Crafting with Ursula): www.youtube.com/channel/UCng...

Between the Covers Podcastwww.youtube.com Between the Covers, hosted by David Naimon, is a podcast of long-form literary conversations

for those who listen to their podcasts on YouTube I finally set up a YouTube channel for Between the Covers (and Crafting with Ursula): www.youtube.com/channel/UCng...

Between the Covers Podcastwww.youtube.com Between the Covers, hosted by David Naimon, is a podcast of long-form literary conversations

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Happy 57th anniversary of signing the first contract for A Wizard of Earthsea, which you will note was titled, at the time of signing, The Wizard's Quest. Narrow escape!

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Little bear, big lion. Europe, early 1950s.

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Our bonus episode is available! @nonsuchbook.bsky.social and I were thrilled to talk with David Naimon about book podcasts and so much more @davidnaimon.bsky.social @onebrightbook.bsky.social onebrightbook.com/2024/07/11/b...

Frances @nonsuchbook.bsky.social and I just recorded a very special bonus episode with a dream guest for @onebrightbook.bsky.social Coming soon 👀

Bonus Episode 3: In Conversation With David Naimononebrightbook.com This third bonus episode of the podcast is a conversation that Rebecca and Frances recently had with writer and podcaster, David Naimon while Dorian recharges his depleted battery in the wilds of Cana...

“No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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If you need a break from Supreme Court Junta news, I highly recommend this podcast interview with Mexican essayist and novelist Álvaro Enrigue — who talks about how fiction can make history come alive. tinhouse.com/podcast/alva...

Álvaro Enrigue : You Dreamed of Empires - Tin Housetinhouse.com Today’s conversation with Álvaro Enrigue about his latest novel, You Dreamed of Empires, translated by Natasha Wimmer, is set during the relatively undocumented first encounter between Moctezuma and H...

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Just when I thought I was done book shopping today, I went back in for a bit of poetry and this is what came with me. 100% thanks to @davidnaimon.bsky.social & Between The Covers!

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Don't miss today's conversation with Chilean poet & artist Cecilia Vicuña. One like no other on the show. We center Deer Book, a bilingual collection (translations by Daniel Borzutsky) of 40 yrs of her poems & drawings to discuss her art & poetics. Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/ceci...

Cecilia Vicuña : Deer Book - Tin Housetinhouse.com Today’s guest Chilean poet, performance artist, visual artist, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña, joins us to discuss her latest work, Deer Book, or Libro Venado. A bilingual collection, with tra...

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Holy moly @davidnaimon.bsky.social interviewed Cecilia Vicuña!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

‎Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry: Cecilia Vicuña : Deer Book on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry, Ep Cecilia Vicuña : Deer Book - Jul 1, 2024

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Excited to welcome Lance Olsen back to BTC to explore his latest multiverse novel Absolute Away & his new collection of philosophical essays on writing, Shrapnel: Contemplations. History, memory, physics, language, self, death, beauty & books. Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/lanc...

Lance Olsen : Absolute Away & Shrapnel - Tin Housetinhouse.com Lance Olsen returns to Between the Covers to discuss his two new books, his uncategorizable multiverse fiction Absolute Away, and his new collection of philosophical essays and interviews on writing S...

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I received an interesting call for fables from the project 'Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis'. Call is attached. The general website for the project is research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f... but I don't think the call itself is on there. #animalhist #envhum

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Another phenomenally captivating episode of Between the Covers. @davidnaimon.bsky.social talks with Amitav Ghosh about his latest book, "Smoke and Ashes." 📚🗃

Don't miss today's episode with Amitav Ghosh. We talk about the history of extractive colonial economies, how plants have agency within history, & about the geopolitical forces that led to the rise of realism within fiction, and at what cost. Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/amit... @amitav.bsky.social

Amitav Ghosh : Smoke and Ashes - Tin Housetinhouse.com For nearly twenty years Amitav Ghosh has been writing about opium and the opium trade, first in his fictional Ibis trilogy, and now in nonfiction with Smoke & Ashes. This is a story that brings togeth...

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Happy birthday to Hélène Cixous, born on this day in Oran, Algeria in 1937. We talk about her multiple impossible origins, about Lispector & Kafka, about dreams & exile, about the three steps on the ladder of writing & more ICYMI here's the audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/hele...

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Working late on the queer poetry grind and relistening to this here on Pride Eve tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...

Tin House Live : Queer Beatitudes with Brandon Taylor & Garth Greenwell - Tin Housetinhouse.com Between the Covers is a literary radio show hosted by David Naimon. Interviews with writers of fiction, memoir, essay, poetry, science fiction and fantasy, brought to you by Tin House and KBOO 90.7FM ...

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It’s been on my list for years now, I first heard of it via this excellent interview with @davidnaimon.bsky.social: tinhouse.com/podcast/bran...

Brandon Shimoda : The Grave on the Wall - Tin Housetinhouse.com “If someone asked me what a poet’s history might look and read like, I would say Brandon Shimoda’s The Grave on the Wall. It is part dream, part memory, part forgetting, part identity. It is a remarka...

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Yep—this is how we do it♥️ When it feels impossible to bear the leaden, stupefying reality of war, climate breakdown, genocide, and the sublime stupidity of our oligarchs, there's poetry🙏 Thank you @davidnaimon.bsky.social and @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social. Breathtakingly good—this convo IS a poem!

Don't miss today's conversation with Joyelle McSweeney, about poetry as prophecy, style as survival, the necropastoral & underworld journeys, with eyes that spill art, & ears that make sound Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/joye... @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social

Joyelle McSweeney : Death Styles - Tin Housetinhouse.com Today’s guest, poet, playwright, novelist, translator, publisher, editor and critic, Joyelle McSweeney discusses her latest poetry collection Death Styles. She talks about the juxtaposing of “death” a...

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Loved this interview with novelist Fernanda Melchor on the carnivalesque ways violence can be depicted and the impunity with which women are murdered in Mexico. Also, witches. Here for the witches. tinhouse.com/podcast/fern...

Fernanda Melchor : Hurricane Season - Tin Housetinhouse.com Between the Covers is a literary radio show hosted by David Naimon. Interviews with writers of fiction, memoir, essay, poetry, science fiction and fantasy, brought to you by Tin House and KBOO 90.7FM ...

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finally got around to reading this story and god i'm just sobbing and sobbing —what was courage? She had never figured it out. Not fearing, some said. Fearing yet going on, others said. But what could one do but go on? Had one any real choice, ever? To die was merely to go on in another direction.

"If you wanted to come home you had to keep going on, that was what she meant when she wrote 'True journey is return'" lithub.com/one-great-sh...

One great short story to read today: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Day Before the Revolution”lithub.com According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub sta…

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