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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 3.

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

As a writer now, not knowing how to be as a mother or as a writer. podcast-host

And she fills her schedule with European press events and sort of drifts through them. podcast-host

But the best part is that we open the book in her lover's Sicilian apartment, but with just the mother and daughter there. podcast-host

The lover who she doesn't know that well is elsewhere on tour himself as a musician. podcast-host

And is offered his place. podcast-host

The daughter doesn't know him. podcast-host

The mother has never been to this place before. podcast-host

So here they are, mother and daughter, groping for a new form, but within someone else's form. podcast-host

And among this other person's books, and among this other person's style and way of living, everything is out of joint. podcast-host

And I'd love to hear about anything that comes up for you about any of this, whether border crossing in your work, brokenness in beginnings, as you've already spoken to, but I also want to center something. podcast-host

that really isn't central. podcast-host

It is only prominent at the very beginning. podcast-host

But nevertheless, it somehow continues to loom large in my imagination as a reader through the whole book and feels to me like maybe it's a key that resists meaning and yet somehow also generates meaning. podcast-host

And that's the swordfish head that she buys in the market and brings home to cook. podcast-host

So, I mean, for one thing, here we have something that's been torn asunder, right? podcast-host

So we have a swordfish. podcast-host

Head. podcast-host

But it it's also, I'm imagining, quite difficult, unlike almost any other sea beast, to store in the fridge. podcast-host

So we have this this this out of joint head, the swordfish head that is now stored in the fridge, that stares at them whenever they open the fridge. podcast-host

And she doesn't know how to cook it. podcast-host

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