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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Good morning and welcome to Between the Covers.
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I'm David Nayman, your host.
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Today's guest, Valeria Luiselli, earned a BA in philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a doctorate in comparative literature from Columbia University.
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She's been a professor in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at Hofstra University, taught in City College of New York's Beyond Identity program, which developed
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Political solidarity between young women of color from both immigrant and US-based minority communities, has been a visiting professor at Harvard and a long-standing one at Bard College.
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Her books include Faces in the Crowd, Sidewalks, and the books she first came on the show for, The Story of My Teeth.
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Since then, she has published her American book award-winning Tell Me How It Ends.
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a book that tells the story of Louiselli's time volunteering as an interpreter for undocumented children fleeing violence in Central and South America and seeking residency in the United States.
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Brooklyn Magazine says of it, translating language, experience, bodies across space and time, thought and culture.
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Louis Ellie wants us to join in this work,
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Tell Me How It Ends calls for a wholesale reimagining of both the forces that have shaped contemporary immigration into the United States, as well as the way many Americans, disconnected from fact, picture it.
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It calls, moreover, for action.
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In 2019, she won the MacArthur Genius Grant.
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And just to prove her genius, the next year she releases Lost Children Archive, lauded by everyone from Tommy Orange to Barack Obama, and heralded by The Atlantic as one of the great American novels of the past hundred years.
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Jordan Kissner said of it, The Migration and Lost Children Archive is constructed as an
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Inversion of the American frontier fable.
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Its anti-myth, its interrogator.
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The book itself is attempting to solve a heady problem: how to account for the past and the present at once, how to hear the people who remain undocumented, how to rescue what is lost and also make sense of what and who are still here.
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Since then,
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Wiseli was invited to be part of the Future Library Project, where a hundred writers over the course of a century, one writer each year, will be invited to write for the future, having the work stored and preserved in a Norwegian forest unread until the year 2114.
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