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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't miss today's unforgettable archival episode with @elvia-wilk.bsky.social about her debut novel OVAL Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tin House is sending me on a mini-regional tour for the gorgeous reissue of Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing. Portland-Seattle-Bay Area friends I hope to see you. Come say hi and celebrate Ursula's legacy with me! @tinhouse.bsky.social @ursulakleguin.com @ebbooksellers.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today's archival episode is a 2019 conversation with Marlon James about Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Winner of the 2020 Locus Award for Best Horror, Amal El-Mohtar described it as "like being slowly eaten by a bear." Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don't miss today's ep with China Miéville about his new novel, 21 years in the making, THE ROUSE. We explore everything from Marxism to monsters, apophatic theology to the nature of consciousness to the failure of language before all that goes bump in the night. Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Don't miss today's conversation between Thalia Field, @annedemarcken.com and myself, hosted by the Pacific Northwest College of Arts low residency Visual Arts MFA, about making art in relation to science Audio🌿: milkweed.org/between-the-...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Don't miss today's conversation with Hajjar Baban, and our deep dive into Kurdish poetics Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-... @milkweededitions.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Don't miss today's archival conversation with poet Morgan Parker about her National Book Critics Circle Award winning collection Magical Negro Audio🔥: milkweed.org/between-the-... @tinhouse.bsky.social @zandoprojects.bsky.social @bookcritics.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Don't miss Claudia Rankine's return to Between the Covers to discuss her powerful new book TRIAGE Audio⚡: milkweed.org/between-the-... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Don't miss Valeria Luiselli's return to Between the Covers, eleven years after we first talked for the show. Truly one of the highlight conversations of the year for me✨ Audio🔥: milkweed.org/between-the-covers/valeria-luiselli-beginning-middle-end

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing returns this fall in a gorgeous refreshed edition. You can pre-order it here: zandoprojects.com/books/ursula... @ursulakleguin.com @zandoprojects.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

✨The most listened to BTC conversations of 2025✨ (in no particular order—Olga Ravn, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, adrienne maree brown, Robert MacFarlane and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson)

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

the great Ballaké Sissoko in Portland last night

Ballaké Sissoko with Derek Gripper on stage at the First Congregational Church in downtown Portland, Oregon

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I'm really excited to be in conversation with Caren Beilin about her latest fiercely wild-ride of a book SEA, POISON at the downtown Powell's on November 2nd. I hope you'll mark your calendars and join us! @ndbooks.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I actually like both of those covers but I think the Canadian one is my favorite

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

i love how she hated to be asked to predict the future. your quote on fields made me think of this too:

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Thanks to @brandonshimoda.bsky.social for pointing to Nour on twitter who's foregrounding innumerable ways to help Gazas directly—with water, food, medical care, rent. DM her there at @TF7_AAWLA if you want to help out. Honored to share this water truck delivery with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Well, at least they are redirecting literary grant money to "foster AI competency" (clearly lacking in this AI generated 2nd paragraph), support for the military (as all true literature should do), and disaster recovery (books as sandbags?)

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

from "Undefeated Despair" by John Berger criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/undefeated_d...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Don't miss today's episode with Rob Macaisa Colgate & his 2 debuts, in poetry & verse drama. We explore questions of care, disability, accessibility & community, looking at the poem's body & at the world-at-large through a Crip Mad Poetics Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rob-... #thsw

Poet Rob Macaisa Colgate in a t-shirt and leather jacket next to the cover of his poetry collection which shows the bottom half of a bust of a human head with a blind salamander sitting atop where the head is broken.

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The most listened to episodes of the last half year. (in no particular order)

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

thinking of this relentless push away from the body and into the virtual, I often think of this passage from Rikki Ducornet's The Deep Zoo, which imagines an end point

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Congratulations to past BTC guests Percival Everett for winning the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and Danez Smith for being a finalist in Poetry! ICYMI, here are the conversations with each of them: Percival: tinhouse.com/podcast/perc... Danez: tinhouse.com/podcast/dane... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Don't miss Lucie Bonvalet's new piece "The Empty Snail Shell" up today at FENCE. One of my all-time favorites of hers: fenceportal.org/the-empty-sn...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The most listened to BTC episodes/conversations in 2024 (in no particular order). You can check them all out at: tinhouse.com/podcasts

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

ICYMI Don't miss poet Aria Aber on BTC discussing her debut novel Good Girl & everything from Kafka to Celan, annihilation & God, exile within language itself, translating her own book into German, and more Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/aria... @ariamisha.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Denis Johnson's answer when asked what his favorite Bob Dylan lyric was (Audio of the entire episode can be found here: tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...)

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Don't miss the latest episode of @sakeriver.com's Keep the Channel Open—where Mike checks in on past guests from @alyssaharad.bsky.social to @gabriellebates.bsky.social to Rachel Zucker about how they are getting through. I loved participating. Audio: www.keepthechannelopen.com/episodes/202...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Congrats to past BTC guests Dubravka Ugrešić & Rodrigo Fresán for making the NBCC Longlist for the 2024 Book in Translation Prize! Here are the conversations with each: Dubravka: tinhouse.com/podcast/dubr... Rodrigo: tinhouse.com/podcast/rodr... @bookcritics.bsky.social @openletterbooks.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Congrats to BTC guests Carl Phillips & Kenzie Allen for making the 2024 NBCC long list in Poetry!!!✨✨✨ ICYMI here are their episodes: Carl: tinhouse.com/podcast/carl... Kenzie: tinhouse.com/podcast/kenz... @cerena.bsky.social @cphillipspoet.bsky.social @bookcritics.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Still working on it, but there are now 250+ episodes of Between the Covers up at the show's YouTube channel with 12 playlists to consider as ways to explore the archive You can check it out here: youtube.com/channel/UCng...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

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...

Cixous with a large black and white scarf, on the couch with orange pillows, and a calico cat on its side being caressed by her

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

I learned from one of the directors of the new Palestinian "sci-fi documentary" Lyd, a film both historical & speculative, that episodes of Crafting with Ursula were an influence on their choices. I write about it & how to support the film here: patreon.com/posts/sci-fi... @ursulakleguin.bsky.social

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Congrats to the 2023 BTC guests who are finalists for the NBCC awards! Listen to them here: Christina Sharpe: tinhouse.com/podcast/chri... Charif Shanahan: tinhouse.com/podcast/char... Naomi Klein: tinhouse.com/podcast/naom... Matthew Zapruder: tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

We're kicking off the year with a blast from the past. Denis Johnson at the inaugural Tin House writers workshop in 2003. A remarkable reading, an unforgettable interview & the performance of one of his plays by him, Chris Offutt & Charles D'Ambrosio Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

If you are in Portland tomorrow come over to Powell's Bookstore to hear me in conversation with Matthew Zapruder about his remarkable new book "Story of a Poem" about what poetry, and the revision of a poem, can tell us about living and building a world where the people and things we love can thrive

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

In 2019 Richard Powers & I talked for Between the Covers but we also, that same night, appeared onstage at a ticketed event before a live audience. An entirely different conversation ensues, one I'm excited to share today: tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-house-live…

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