David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
David Naimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mitchell Jackson, a line from Mitchell Jackson's in survival math that goes.
And he's not talking about whiteness here, but I sort of suggested in our conversation that maybe this was a description of whiteness.
Ignorance requires ignorance of history, which is a way to preserve innocence in the face of living.
And this is what it felt like to me, like this preservation of
And maybe the same way we as white people will step back from Virginia, right?
you have any can you share any anecdotes about funny or interesting ways Matt has traveled in the world and maybe your your theories on why it's this this particular piece in the collection that seems to have caught on like wildfire?
Not all mats
your therapist has shared
That's amazing.
Has a question for himself.
I've been listening to Morgan Parker read from Magical Negro.
When you were first on the show, we talked about your experience growing up in predominantly white spaces and more recently in the New York Times profile of your amazing apartment that the entire literary world is salivating over at this moment.
One of the ways you describe your style is Black Wes Anderson.
Yes.
I love that, Black Wes Anderson.
And in the nonfiction piece you wrote about attending the Bill Cosby trial called Are We Not Entertained, you talk about your own family being an aspirational family values black family, one that you called American Dream Black.
And, of course, Bill Cosby's own sermons in the black community and the Cosby Show itself are steeped in this form of respectability politics.
So I guess I wondered about this trajectory from moving from books that try to charm us to books that do not have that as a concern in relationship to – and this is the way you describe your – one of the ways you've described your current book –
I wanted to explore in this book pushing the perverse and the gross and the ugly and the uncomfortable as a beauty as well and allowing pain to exist alongside beauty, running into the garbage fire that is America and ourselves and seeing what we can learn.
I wondered if you feel like Magical Negro is a sort of undoing in a way of American Dream Black, if it's a way to, I don't know, decolonize an assimilationist impulse.
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