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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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
Gosh how beautiful this is - my whole soul has expanded / exploded at this notion. I am new @robincostelewis.bsky.social @davidnaimon.bsky.social ❤️❤️
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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
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...
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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...
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
This sounds so amazing!
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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...
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
podcasts.apple.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"“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...
podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id58...
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Reposted by David Naimon
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...
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
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...
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
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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… 🫨
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...
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
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… 🫨
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...
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
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...
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
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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...
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
Good chance to put this here, one of the most stimulating and mind-opening conversations of the year
tinhouse.com/podcast/robe...
tinhouse.com/podcast/robe...
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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
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
rivers and streams are alive and rivers and streams can be killed. this is how they kill them.
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Donald Trump is renovating the White House the right way.
--Ezra Klein
--Ezra Klein
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Donald Trump is renovating the White House the right way.
--Ezra Klein
--Ezra Klein
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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...
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
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...
open-book.ca/News/Read-an...
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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...
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
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...
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...
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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!!!
“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!!!
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...
tinhouse.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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!!!
“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!!!
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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.
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?...
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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.
Vajra!!! Wept at his acceptance. Congratulations! Deeply grateful for all the work that goes in, the writing and reading and talking.
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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?...
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 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?...
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
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Reposted by David Naimon
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
#naturewriting #booksky #magic
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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
#naturewriting #booksky #magic
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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
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...
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?...
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 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?...
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
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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
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.
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
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
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
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
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...
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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.
@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
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.
@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.
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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
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
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.
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
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
it goes deep on religion, politics, and just how Vajra conjures and structures his epic, brilliant novels