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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Lost Children Archive has a certain faded inevitability to
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to it, but this book exists, I think, in a more not knowing space.
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So let's start with the title, which exists within your last book, which begins in your last book, so maybe puts us in its middle phase now.
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Talk to us about how and why this title is is the frame for for your newest novel.
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No way.
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I hope that's true.
Well, I think the big irony of your mother character saying we need to give our children a proper story, one with a beginning, middle, and end, is that your stories are never proper.
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I feel like they always break form and break genre, that even before you were writing about actual borders between nations, you were already a border crosser in multiple ways at once.
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And just to take the story
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of my teeth as an example that you were commissioned to write something for the Galleria Humex, a contemporary art gallery, whose money comes from the Humex juice company of the same name.
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You not only include the Humex factory workers within the book itself, you give them agency in the composition of the book.
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They critique your drafts and they provide feedback for a book
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That was meant to exist in a world where the art gallery is public-facing and the factory workers are invisible.
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And you subvert that.
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Likewise, before there was a push for translators to get more recognition, whether their own portion of a book prizes money or their name's on the cover, you invited your translator to write a chapter of the book itself in the English iteration.
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And as you mentioned today, and also in and in a conversation you you recently had with Carlos Puig in in Mexico, one beginning for the book is your daughter asking you when she was nine or ten why things begin with uh something being split in two.
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In the book itself, you mentioned the etymology for the word beginning is to open or also to cut away.
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open and many things are broken in the beginning in the book.
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The form of the family is broken with the divorce, with the mother, for example, going to the fish market in or the vegetable market in Catania and being so used to shopping for four that she's confounded now how to shop for two.
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And they are even in Sicily in the first place because the mother writer doesn't know how to move forward.
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