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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.
Podcast: tinhouse.com/podcasts
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
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Gosh how beautiful this is - my whole soul has expanded / exploded at this notion. I am new @robincostelewis.bsky.social @davidnaimon.bsky.social ❤️❤️
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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this week when I've been walking or having time on my own, I've been listening to @davidnaimon.bsky.social 's thrilling conversation with Robin Coste Lewis on Archive of Desire, A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy, as the perfect queer companion to ChromaQueer! tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
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 ...
tinhouse.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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This sounds so amazing!
Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
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 ...
tinhouse.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"“And so I think there's also a part of me that uses my obsession with the history and evolution of time as a way to protect myself from the ignorance of American ideology around its inception.” - Robin Coste Lewis

podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id58...
Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire
Podcast Episode · Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · 11/04/2025 · 2h 41m
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November 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
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 ...
tinhouse.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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y’all… robin gets me every time. lol.
i shared on IG about the time i met her in houston and tried (very hard) to flirt with her. 😂 i (think i) started to make some real flirting progress on twitter, but then twitter died. and now here comes david with this very sexy interview, and i… 🫨
Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
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 ...
tinhouse.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
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 ...
tinhouse.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Good chance to put this here, one of the most stimulating and mind-opening conversations of the year

tinhouse.com/podcast/robe...
Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive? - Tin House
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 mea...
tinhouse.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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rivers and streams are alive and rivers and streams can be killed. this is how they kill them.
Bit of a different post but,a data center is trying to be built in Duluth area of MN. This could destroy fragile trout water’s ,ecosystems & so much more.

If you’re in the area PLEASE reach out to the city council saying you DO NOT want this built.

More info here -> stopthehermantowndatacenter.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Donald Trump is renovating the White House the right way.

--Ezra Klein
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Just in time for the weekend, read an excerpt from the brand new English language translation of The Wax Child by Danish phenom Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken, on Open Book.
open-book.ca/News/Read-an...
Read an Excerpt from THE WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn (Translated by Martin Aitkin)
With The Wax Child (Book*hug Press), internationally celebrated author Olga Ravn returns with a story that is as haunting as it is breathtakingly original. ...
open-book.ca
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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When @ursulakleguin.com started writing a new novel, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World is the first publication focusing on her maps.

THE WORD FOR WORLD: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is available in the US from @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social

Here: ptreyesbooks.com/book/9781068...
October 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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So in love w/ this conversation I’ve stretched out listening & keep doubling-back…

“ragefully refused to translate into theological cliche…”!-DN

“turning the exclusion [by society]…into a rejection of society” !-OR

“that subversive mvmt at the ♥️of what a witch is”-OR

is my ♥️, then, too

thx!!!
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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I would never have imagined how meaningful I find this award. Incredible jury, incredible shortlist.

Vajra!!! Wept at his acceptance. Congratulations! Deeply grateful for all the work that goes in, the writing and reading and talking.
Also, don't miss Vajra's incredibly powerful acceptance speech
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Also, don't miss Vajra's incredibly powerful acceptance speech
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Thank you @vajra.me for calling for donations to the Sameer Project and centering Palestine in your brilliant acceptance speech 👏
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is a beauty, with maps & sketches by Ursula, essays & interviews with @davidnaimon.bsky.social and others, edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social, published by @silver-press.bsky.social to accompany the exhibition.

#naturewriting #booksky #magic
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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major storms have caused extensive damage to Western Alaska & disrupted subsistence resources there. Western Alaska Disaster Relief has been endorsed by everyone from Alaska Federation of Natives to Native Peoples Action. You can contribute to their efforts here: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Also, don't miss Vajra's incredibly powerful acceptance speech
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Congratulations Vajra!
ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into RAKESFALL, the winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/vajr...
@ursulakleguin.com @vajra.me
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
major storms have caused extensive damage to Western Alaska & disrupted subsistence resources there. Western Alaska Disaster Relief has been endorsed by everyone from Alaska Federation of Natives to Native Peoples Action. You can contribute to their efforts here: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Today is publication day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing!

@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com

Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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and well worth listening to @davidnaimon.bsky.social 's superb interview with @vajra.me

it goes deep on religion, politics, and just how Vajra conjures and structures his epic, brilliant novels
Congratulations Vajra!
ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into RAKESFALL, the winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/vajr...
@ursulakleguin.com @vajra.me
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM