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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Little did we know at the time what the future held for this book and also the world it reflected.
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Yes, ultimately it was.
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a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hearst and Wright Legacy Award, and more.
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But it was not only or even mainly critically acclaimed, but broke out into the public cultural consciousness in a way few books do, let alone books of poetry, or books that refuse genre like this one does.
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Named by Kirkis, the New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of the twenty first century,
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I suspect it's also one of the most read poetry books of the century too, with hundreds of thousands of readers, and with each of its innumerable reprintings, more names of black men murdered by the state added to page one hundred thirty four, which in my copy way back then had only in memory of Jordan Russell Davis on that page.
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But by the time
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we talked in its second printing had the name of Michael Brown.
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The book became a visible part of the Black Lives Matter movement becoming an embodied on the street movement and activist network following Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri.
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And in 2015, during a Trump pre-debate rally, twenty-three-year-old Johare Osayi Idusuyi was sitting in the VIP section behind Trump's podium, where the audience is visible to the world as Trump spoke.
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Where any of the few minority attendees were shunted into this area to make the audience seem not overwhelmingly white.
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She was captured reading during his speech, her face obscured by the held-up copy of her book, continuing to read despite the anger of the people near her, a reading that lit up the late-night talk show circuit and the media sphere after.
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at large with that book being citizen, an American lyric.
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The following year Rankin won the MacArthur Genius Grant and co founded the Racial Imaginary Institute.
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An interdisciplinary cultural laboratory where, because no sphere of life is untouched by race, the institute gathered and gathers an interdisciplinary range of artists, writers, scholars, and activists to engage, read, counter, contextualize, and demystify the racial imaginaries of our world.
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She's the author of three plays, including The White Card and How
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Help, she co-produced the video series The Situation with John Lucas, and is the author of Just Us, an American Conversation.
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Claudia Rankin returns to Between the Covers today to talk about her latest book, Triage, of which Cidia Hartman says.
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Triage is a stunning book.
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In this blend of essay, memoir, fabulation, and criticism, the intimate encounters between the narrator and the theorist offer an extended meditation on the collective devastation of the present.
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