David Naimon

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4,074 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 24 Aug

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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · Claudia Rankine : Triage · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And in Knight's own description of the work, she calls it an interdisciplinary performance examining duality, where she uses both the phenomenon of conjoined twins and also mythologies around twins, as these two performers physically work through the quote, inseparable nature of intimate relationships. podcast-host

And these performers are put through a series of collaborative tests. podcast-host

Eating, yeah, putting on shoes, sleeping. podcast-host

And this feels like it could be a description of of triage in a sense of two psychically conjoined main characters in the book, the the theorist and the narrator. podcast-host

Also because Carel de Montre is in English argument of monsters as well, because this intimate connection is also one deeply of contention. podcast-host

The subtitle of Citizen was an American lyric and the subtitle of Just Us was an American conversation. podcast-host

And in one conversation about just us with Douglas Kearney, he asks you the difference between the conversation and the lyric, and you say, quote, The conversation keeps you in the room all the time, as in you and me, the encounter is at the center of a conversation. podcast-host

The lyric can exist with me only. podcast-host

I wanted a form that insisted on the encounter. podcast-host

But triage feels distinct from either of these forms. podcast-host

If I were to have a subtitle or imagine a subtitle, I might call it triage, an American dialectic. podcast-host

But an entangled one, a conjoined one, it makes me think of the Jewish notion of hevruta, which is an Aramaic word that could be translated literally as friendship or companion, but what it means within the culture is more complicated as it's a rabbinic method of studying Jewish texts predicated on the idea that podcast-host

that to confront them alone and silently is insufficient, that reading podcast-host

questioning, debating, and analyzing with another is vital. podcast-host

And there are lines about the importance of this within the Babylonian Talmud from from millennia ago, such as, just as fire does not ignite in a lone stick of wood, but in a pile of kindling, so too matters of Torah are not retained and under podcast-host

be understood properly by a lone scholar. podcast-host

And I also think of a quote of Fred Moton that you had saved on your phone, and perhaps you still have it saved on your phone. podcast-host

I don't need your help. podcast-host

I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know. podcast-host

But whether you yourself see this as a move from lyric to conversation to conjoin dialectical pair podcast-host

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