David Naimon
speaker
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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All of that would seem inconceivable to me, even though it is all true.
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But for the most part, the trade offs upside, having remarkable first encounters with Cecilia Vacunya and Saul Williams, Olga Round and Robert MacFarlane has made sense.
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But something has changed this year, and it's not by design, but rather, I think, by time, where it has been so long since I've talked to some writers I love.
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That the dam has broken on this artificial constraint.
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Not entirely, the show will still preference new guests, if a little less so, but I've measured my excitement all year to talk to three or four writers who I haven't talked to in over a decade, who were formative encounters for me as an interviewer and as a writer in what feels like a different
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Era now.
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To have that opportunity to account for our time apart, to measure the passage of time together, and for me internally to measure how the show has changed since that first time we talked.
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Today is the first of those with the remarkable Valeria Louiselli.
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And perhaps I'm her ideal reader, as I love everything she's written.
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I love the serious
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playfulness of her work.
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So it's no small thing for me to say that the book we discussed today, beginning, middle end, is my favorite of hers.
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Before we begin, whether this is one of your first encounters with a show, or whether you're a longtime listener, consider transforming yourself.
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Like the shapeshifting god Proteus that we discussed today does,
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Consider transforming yourself from a listener to a listener supporter by joining the Between the Covers community.
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Every supporter gets resources with every episode.
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Every listener supporter is invited to help shape who we invite going forward.
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And then there are a ton of other things to choose from, whether access to the bonus audio archive or the Milkweed Early Reader subscription.
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You can check it all out at patreon dot com slash between the covers.
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And now for today's conversation with none other than Valeria Luiselli.
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