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 narrator in this book is also writing a book called Maternity Leave, whose opening lines are the same as the opening lines of Beginning Middle End.
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And the mother of our protagonist is involved in radical politics, much as your mother was, as you mentioned, leaving your family when you were young to work for a women's collective in Chiapas for the Zapatista movement.
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And your ex-husband and former guest on the show, Alvaro Enrique, his latest book has a fictionalized version of your road trip to the Southwest, much as you did your fictional version in Lost Children Archive.
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Your response to this question, somewhat cheekily, in Spanish, is that twenty-seven percent of the book is true, which I suspect is also true with lots of autofiction.
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And I think here of Vila Matis Vilamatis' interview in the Paris Review, where he talks about how what is so appealing about language is how it destabilizes existence, exactly because it doesn't reproduce reality.
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He says this is true since the second volume of Don Quixote, but
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That he's doing something in the aura of book two of Don Quixote, an auto mythography, something meta-literary, similar to the second volume where Cervantes has Quixote now as a well-known figure, confronted with and contending with his own legendary reality wherever he goes.
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It seems like great auto fiction or great auto mythography is
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is playing with and foregrounding this aspect of narrative and language, as I think yours does really delightfully through many of your books.
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But I want you to tell me where I'm wrong, or how you would push back, or why this is a thorn in your side, and what language you would use to describe this, this very clear way in which you're not abandoning signposts.
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they may not be important to the interior of your book, but you're not abandoning signposts that correspond with, you know, broad stroke signposts within your own lived experience in the world.
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yeah.
I agree.
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Yeah.
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Whereas in the first book, he's just trying to be written about.
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But no one knows who the hell he is.
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He's just he's inspired by those those romance novels that he's been reading and wants to be in one.
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And what's so great about that too, I think, is that when you talk about fiction escaping into the real world, like these people thinking you actually stole the mosaic tile, is that he only wrote the second book because someone stole the story and started continue
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Yeah.
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So someone's continuing the book and he needs to steal back the story again.
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