David Naimon
@davidnaimon.bsky.social
Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: tinhouse.com/podcasts
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
Podcast: tinhouse.com/podcasts
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
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David Naimon
@davidnaimon.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Started a starter pack!
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Highly recommend this astute and powerful book;
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
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 qu...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Highly recommend this astute and powerful book;
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Five guests who appeared on BTC in 2025—Rickey Laurentiis, Caren Beilin, Madeleine Thien, Olga Ravn & Omar El Akkad— are longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award this year. You can check out the conversations about their acclaimed books at tinhouse.com/podcasts
@bookcritics.bsky.social
@bookcritics.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Five guests who appeared on BTC in 2025—Rickey Laurentiis, Caren Beilin, Madeleine Thien, Olga Ravn & Omar El Akkad— are longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award this year. You can check out the conversations about their acclaimed books at tinhouse.com/podcasts
@bookcritics.bsky.social
@bookcritics.bsky.social
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the transcript is up for the conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
Between the Covers Randa Abdel-Fattah Interview - Tin House
David Naimon: You’re reading a 400-page manuscript. This is your job. But when, 200 pages in, a bunch of clowns mysteriously show up, the plot goes off the rails. It’s your job to fix this manuscript....
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December 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
the transcript is up for the conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
Five guests who appeared on BTC in 2025—Rickey Laurentiis, Caren Beilin, Madeleine Thien, Olga Ravn & Omar El Akkad— are longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award this year. You can check out the conversations about their acclaimed books at tinhouse.com/podcasts
@bookcritics.bsky.social
@bookcritics.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Five guests who appeared on BTC in 2025—Rickey Laurentiis, Caren Beilin, Madeleine Thien, Olga Ravn & Omar El Akkad— are longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award this year. You can check out the conversations about their acclaimed books at tinhouse.com/podcasts
@bookcritics.bsky.social
@bookcritics.bsky.social
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Look, we are not unspectacular things.
We've come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more?
To love harder?
- Ada Limón
We've come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more?
To love harder?
- Ada Limón
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Look, we are not unspectacular things.
We've come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more?
To love harder?
- Ada Limón
We've come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more?
To love harder?
- Ada Limón
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This is a brilliant conversation & well worth a listen ⬇️
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
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 qu...
tinhouse.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This is a brilliant conversation & well worth a listen ⬇️
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This podcast with Carl Phillips and @davidnaimon.bsky.social is incredible! So many ideas to boost the poet's craft and creative energy. So much heart. Plus—Phillips answers a great question from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and mentions my guiding light, Teresa of Ávila. ❤️
Carl Phillips : Scattered Snows, to the North - Tin House
Today’s guest is one of the most singular and celebrated Anglophone poets writing today, Carl Phillips. We center his latest collection, Scattered Snows, to the North, his first since winning the 2023...
tinhouse.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This podcast with Carl Phillips and @davidnaimon.bsky.social is incredible! So many ideas to boost the poet's craft and creative energy. So much heart. Plus—Phillips answers a great question from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and mentions my guiding light, Teresa of Ávila. ❤️
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I just finished reading The Wax Child by @olgaravn.bsky.social , finished it in less than 24 hours. It's so astonishingly good, mesmerizing and propulsive.
Now I will listen again to this fascinating podcast, which I have already heard twice!
Now I will listen again to this fascinating podcast, which I have already heard twice!
Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
@ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
@ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
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 uncannil...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I just finished reading The Wax Child by @olgaravn.bsky.social , finished it in less than 24 hours. It's so astonishingly good, mesmerizing and propulsive.
Now I will listen again to this fascinating podcast, which I have already heard twice!
Now I will listen again to this fascinating podcast, which I have already heard twice!
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Giving a listen this morning.
Thank you! Still so grateful to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for this convo, its swerves, its surprises…
started listening to @davidnaimon.bskytinhouse's conversation with Carl Phillips tonight, just as I am working on my own collection of winter poems& it couldn't be more timely or inspiring. thanks as always, David. your podcast is my craft university.
tinhouse.com/podcast/carl...
tinhouse.com/podcast/carl...
December 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Giving a listen this morning.
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All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed.
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
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A bystander tackled and wrestled a gun from one of the two alleged gunman during the Bondi beach mass shooting in which at least 12 people were killed, footage shows.
Video of the scene shows the alleged gunman standing on a footpath between a grassy area and parking lot holding a shotgun and firing into the distance. Continue reading...
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December 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed.
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
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Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
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 qu...
tinhouse.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
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 qu...
tinhouse.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
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an all-time fave convo in a series that's full of all-time great ones. (if you haven't listened yet ⬇️⬇️⬇️)
Thank you! Still so grateful to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for this convo, its swerves, its surprises…
started listening to @davidnaimon.bskytinhouse's conversation with Carl Phillips tonight, just as I am working on my own collection of winter poems& it couldn't be more timely or inspiring. thanks as always, David. your podcast is my craft university.
tinhouse.com/podcast/carl...
tinhouse.com/podcast/carl...
December 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
an all-time fave convo in a series that's full of all-time great ones. (if you haven't listened yet ⬇️⬇️⬇️)
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Thank you! Still so grateful to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for this convo, its swerves, its surprises…
started listening to @davidnaimon.bskytinhouse's conversation with Carl Phillips tonight, just as I am working on my own collection of winter poems& it couldn't be more timely or inspiring. thanks as always, David. your podcast is my craft university.
tinhouse.com/podcast/carl...
tinhouse.com/podcast/carl...
Carl Phillips : Scattered Snows, to the North - Tin House
Today’s guest is one of the most singular and celebrated Anglophone poets writing today, Carl Phillips. We center his latest collection, Scattered Snows, to the North, his first since winning the 2023...
tinhouse.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Thank you! Still so grateful to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for this convo, its swerves, its surprises…
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enjoying this quiet time of winter walks, solitude, writing. all the inspiration from @davidnaimon.bsky.social 's Between the Covers conversations. most recently with Jazmina Barrera Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords - Tin House share.google/OZCk9RKdyq3c...
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 ...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
enjoying this quiet time of winter walks, solitude, writing. all the inspiration from @davidnaimon.bsky.social 's Between the Covers conversations. most recently with Jazmina Barrera Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords - Tin House share.google/OZCk9RKdyq3c...
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A good day to listen to this archival @davidnaimon.bsky.social intvu with George Saunders. tinhouse.com/podcast/geor...
George Saunders : Tenth of December - Tin House
“George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read All Year,” declared the cover of the New York Times Magazine several weeks ago. Since then, the world has rushed to agree that Saunders’ new stor...
tinhouse.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A good day to listen to this archival @davidnaimon.bsky.social intvu with George Saunders. tinhouse.com/podcast/geor...
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Robert Fitzgerald said that when phrases are repeated in Homer [...] it enriches, it reinforces, it insists, and it grows in strength and power. I feel like one of my key concerns is the relationship between the part and the whole.
David Naimon interviewing Arthur Sze
tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
David Naimon interviewing Arthur Sze
tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
Between the Covers Arthur Sze Interview - Tin House
David Naimon: Today’s episode is made possible by Northwestern University Press and their new award-winning release, The History of Intimacy by Poet Gabeba Baderoon. The History of Intimacy is a tende...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Robert Fitzgerald said that when phrases are repeated in Homer [...] it enriches, it reinforces, it insists, and it grows in strength and power. I feel like one of my key concerns is the relationship between the part and the whole.
David Naimon interviewing Arthur Sze
tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
David Naimon interviewing Arthur Sze
tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
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Don’t miss 🫰🏼, ni las demás conversaciones de este podcast. Es 💎.
Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
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 ...
tinhouse.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Don’t miss 🫰🏼, ni las demás conversaciones de este podcast. Es 💎.
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Looking forward to this! It sounds so compelling...and the cover!
Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
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 ...
tinhouse.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Looking forward to this! It sounds so compelling...and the cover!
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This morning’s listening. 🎶 (Tunes inspired by Patti Smith’s BREAD OF ANGELS)
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This morning’s listening. 🎶 (Tunes inspired by Patti Smith’s BREAD OF ANGELS)
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Oh hell yeah. The latest @davidnaimon.bsky.social episode is with @jazminabarrera.bsky.social.
overcast.fm/+AABNPydE_E0
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Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords — Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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 ...
overcast.fm
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Oh hell yeah. The latest @davidnaimon.bsky.social episode is with @jazminabarrera.bsky.social.
overcast.fm/+AABNPydE_E0
overcast.fm/+AABNPydE_E0
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This discussion, and all of its attendant readings, loosen the arthritic joints of several literary norms.
Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
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 ...
tinhouse.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This discussion, and all of its attendant readings, loosen the arthritic joints of several literary norms.
Reposted by David Naimon
Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
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 ...
tinhouse.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
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 ...
tinhouse.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
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loved @davidnaimon.bsky.social 's latest conversation w/ Caren Beilin so much. have listened to it twice. i commonly listen 2 or 3 times of late. The previous convo on Beilin's Revenge of the Scapegoat is fab. tinhouse.com/podcast/care...
tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...
tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...
Tin House Live : Caren Beilin : Sea Poison - Tin House
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 ...
tinhouse.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
loved @davidnaimon.bsky.social 's latest conversation w/ Caren Beilin so much. have listened to it twice. i commonly listen 2 or 3 times of late. The previous convo on Beilin's Revenge of the Scapegoat is fab. tinhouse.com/podcast/care...
tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...
tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...