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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The mother of our protagonist lives near the U.S.
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border in Mexico.
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She's a radical, but she might also be exhibiting signs of early dementia.
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And she says she's gonna be going offline for a while to be part of a protest of a secret plot that the US is is planning to build a canal along the border.
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The protagonist can find no evidence of this secret plot that her mother speaks about.
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She ends up sending what she's writing of her book to her mother from an anxiety to try to keep her mother's mind active because she's worried about what's going on with her mother's cognition.
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the mother main character is in the middle of these two generations, and having to contend with sort of the the n desires, the impulses, the insights of the generation before and after.
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And she links looking for a new form of motherhood to finding a way back to writing.
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But she also inverts the hierarchy within the three living generations, I think.
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There's a line I love that goes quote Parents think of their relationship with their children way too teleologically, never considering the reverse.
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And in that spirit, you have great respect for the wisdom of children, I think, in your last three books in particular, that
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Really, no age has a monopoly on it.
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Nor on foolishness for that matter.
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I think every generation is becomes a source of of comedy also.
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And even the possibly demented grandmother, she has a sort of oracular wisdom beyond the rational.
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So I was hoping maybe you'd talk to us about questions of knowledge or wisdom or memory or inheritance when it comes to this matrilineal lineage.
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But also more generally, I feel like it reminds me of Le Guin's engagement with child consciousness and child intelligence too, on its own terms.
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Because it feels like you're confronting all the generations as the the living generations as living.
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Living archives, even in the archives of the young, which you would think wouldn't necessarily be archives if you were to look at it in a more mechanistic way, that their archive hasn't been filled yet.
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But there's another archive or another way of finding a source of knowledge and wisdom in the way that a child experiences the world on their terms, not as a stepping stone.
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