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
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
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
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
@ndbooks.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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
@ndbooks.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social
I actually like both of those covers but I think the Canadian one is my favorite
September 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I actually like both of those covers but I think the Canadian one is my favorite
love to see @criveragarza.bsky.social here!
September 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
love to see @criveragarza.bsky.social here!
i love how she hated to be asked to predict the future. your quote on fields made me think of this too:
August 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
i love how she hated to be asked to predict the future. your quote on fields made me think of this too:
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
August 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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
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?)
August 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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?)
from "Undefeated Despair" by John Berger
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/undefeated_d...
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/undefeated_d...
July 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
from "Undefeated Despair" by John Berger
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/undefeated_d...
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/undefeated_d...
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
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rob-...
#thsw
July 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rob-...
#thsw
The most listened to episodes of the last half year.
(in no particular order)
(in no particular order)
May 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The most listened to episodes of the last half year.
(in no particular order)
(in no particular order)
what's going on in Ireland? 🍀
May 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
what's going on in Ireland? 🍀
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
May 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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
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
ICYMI, here are the conversations with each of them:
Percival: tinhouse.com/podcast/perc...
Danez: tinhouse.com/podcast/dane...
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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
ICYMI, here are the conversations with each of them:
Percival: tinhouse.com/podcast/perc...
Danez: tinhouse.com/podcast/dane...
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
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...
April 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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...
The most listened to BTC episodes/conversations in 2024 (in no particular order).
You can check them all out at: tinhouse.com/podcasts
You can check them all out at: tinhouse.com/podcasts
January 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The most listened to BTC episodes/conversations in 2024 (in no particular order).
You can check them all out at: tinhouse.com/podcasts
You can check them all out at: tinhouse.com/podcasts
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
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/aria...
@ariamisha.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/aria...
@ariamisha.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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-...)
Bob Dylan lyric was
(Audio of the entire episode can be found here: tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...)
December 26, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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-...)
Bob Dylan lyric was
(Audio of the entire episode can be found here: tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...)
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...
Audio: www.keepthechannelopen.com/episodes/202...
December 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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...
Audio: www.keepthechannelopen.com/episodes/202...
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
Here are the conversations with each:
Dubravka: tinhouse.com/podcast/dubr...
Rodrigo: tinhouse.com/podcast/rodr...
@bookcritics.bsky.social @openletterbooks.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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
Here are the conversations with each:
Dubravka: tinhouse.com/podcast/dubr...
Rodrigo: tinhouse.com/podcast/rodr...
@bookcritics.bsky.social @openletterbooks.bsky.social
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
ICYMI here are their episodes:
Carl: tinhouse.com/podcast/carl...
Kenzie: tinhouse.com/podcast/kenz...
@cerena.bsky.social @cphillipspoet.bsky.social @bookcritics.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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
ICYMI here are their episodes:
Carl: tinhouse.com/podcast/carl...
Kenzie: tinhouse.com/podcast/kenz...
@cerena.bsky.social @cphillipspoet.bsky.social @bookcritics.bsky.social