Reading Around the Margins
Episodes
Episode 14: "The Thinking is the Plot with Jeannie Vanasco"
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For our final episode of our first season, Naomi is joined by fellow Annie Ernaux enthusiast Jeannie Vanasco for an in-depth discussion on immersion i...
Episode 13: "Lori Feathers on the hypnotic style of abundant books"
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Naomi is joined by bookseller and podcaster Lori Feathers to discuss her reading of The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi, translated by Jamie Richa...
Episode 12: "Lauren Elkin on reading the world afresh with Georges Perec"
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Naomi is joined by Lauren Elkin for a conversation on the permission-giving qualities of Georges Perec's Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, how readi...
Episode 11: "Miranda Mellis on character study as an act of love"
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miranda Mellis joins Naomi for a discussion that indexes Michael Eigen’s book The Psychoanalytic Mystic. They discuss the resonance between annotati...
Out on tour
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Naomi is out on tour, so she will be back in two weeks with a new, full episode in conversation with Miranda Mellis, author of Crocosmia from Nightboa...
Episode 10: "Briana Parker on the worlds that opened through James Joyce’s ULYSSES"
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Briana Parker, co-owner of Brooklyn’s Lofty Pigeon Books, joins Naomi for a discussion that begins in her thoroughly annotated copy of Ulysses from ...
Episode 9: "Michael Wheaton on MARGINALIA as 'a book that could get you writing'"
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the release of Naomi's Marginalia: an autobiography, we have a bit of a role reversal in this episode. Michael Wheaton, publisher of Auto...
Episode 8: "Liz Freeman on how books can open a doorway for a reader"
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bookseller Liz Freeman joins Naomi for a conversation about Liz’s marginalia in books by David Wojnarowicz, William Gaddis, and Kathryn Scanlan; the...
Episode 7: "Hilary Leichter on the reader’s culpability in Robert Coover’s 'The Babysitter'"
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and professor Hilary Leichter joins Naomi for a discussion about books that conjure many different realities; how the reader is made culpable t...
Episode 6: "Claire Donato on on breaking, not making language in Sheldon Bach's 'On Being Forgotten and Forgetting Oneself'"
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, teacher, and psychoanalytic candidate Claire Donato joins Naomi for a discussion on the convergences between psychoanalytic process and writin...
Episode 5: "Sara Levine on on the 'devastating prolepsis' in Toni Morrison's Sula"
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and professor Sara Levine joins Naomi for a conversation on Toni Morrison's Sula, in which they discuss tracking prepositions, the use of vowel...
Episode 4: "Deborah Shapiro on the influence of a stray desire to make artworks, from the letters of Vincent van Gogh"
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and publisher Deborah Shapiro joins Naomi in a conversation on The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh. From that starting point, they discuss the des...
Episode 3: “Rebecca van Laer on Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse and theorizing one’s own writings on love”
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3: “Rebecca van Laer on Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse and theorizing one’s own writings on love”Naomi is joined by the writer ...
Episode 2: "Claire Foster on becoming two lines from a Diane Seuss poem"
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode of Reading Around the Margins, Naomi is joined by Claire Foster, a reader, writer, and literary translator from French. In what...
Episode 1: "Marina Blitshteyn on Theory, A Sunday"
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1: “Marina Blitshteyn on Theory, A Sunday”In this first episode of Reading Around the Margins, Naomi is joined by the writer Marina Blitsh...