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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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · Valeria Luiselli : Beginning Middle End · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And there's also a lot of continuity in in podcast-host

theme. podcast-host

So spend another minute just drawing forth obviously Sicily and Mexico are are really different in many ways too, but draw forth some of maybe the less obvious ways in which you you find a connection between podcast-host

Mm-hmm. podcast-host

Um why they both could serve as a way to meditate on similar themes and create a continuity between books. podcast-host

Well, perhaps as a way to begin to talk about beginning, middle, and podcast-host

I have to first mention the beginning of Lost Children Archive, which opens with our Valeria Luiselli-like protagonist and her husband, each wondering what they will say to their children one day, what will be edited or reshuffled when they do, with the line, quote, But the children will ask, because ask is what children do, and we'll need to tell them a beginning. podcast-host

a middle and an end. podcast-host

We'll need to give them an answer. podcast-host

Tell them a proper story. podcast-host

also that when she tells her friends that their marriage might be ending, they want to know when the ending began. podcast-host

And she remarks how beginnings, middles, and endings can only be known in retrospect. podcast-host

But whereas Lost Children Archive feels like a book about endings, the ending of a marriage, and also about the last free peoples resisting colonization in the Americas, the Apache podcast-host

and the ending of the pre colonial era, in a sense. podcast-host

In the new book, beginning, middle, end, by contrast, podcast-host

We are with the same protagonist and her daughter, but no longer with her husband or his son. podcast-host

And they, mother and daughter, are looking for a beginning. podcast-host

How to begin again? podcast-host

How to reinvent the story of their lives now as two people. podcast-host

And the question is asked: what do we do after the collapse of the narrative? podcast-host

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