David Naimon
@davidnaimon.bsky.social
Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: tinhouse.com/podcasts
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
Podcast: tinhouse.com/podcasts
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
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David Naimon
@davidnaimon.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Started a starter pack!
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We are excited to announce updates to two events at the bookstore this month.
🐘 1/20: David Naimon will join Sangamithra Iyer in conversation
📚 1/27: Katherine Alejandra Cross will join Jude Ellison S. Doyle in conversation
Learn more: lit-arts.org/jan26_events. #pdxevents #pdx #bookstore
🐘 1/20: David Naimon will join Sangamithra Iyer in conversation
📚 1/27: Katherine Alejandra Cross will join Jude Ellison S. Doyle in conversation
Learn more: lit-arts.org/jan26_events. #pdxevents #pdx #bookstore
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
We are excited to announce updates to two events at the bookstore this month.
🐘 1/20: David Naimon will join Sangamithra Iyer in conversation
📚 1/27: Katherine Alejandra Cross will join Jude Ellison S. Doyle in conversation
Learn more: lit-arts.org/jan26_events. #pdxevents #pdx #bookstore
🐘 1/20: David Naimon will join Sangamithra Iyer in conversation
📚 1/27: Katherine Alejandra Cross will join Jude Ellison S. Doyle in conversation
Learn more: lit-arts.org/jan26_events. #pdxevents #pdx #bookstore
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Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront qu...
tinhouse.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
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Loved being on this podcast
In 'Into Being' @lilydunn.bsky.social explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it, and her own experience of writing memoir.
Listen to her on the latest episode of @davidnaimon.bsky.social's podcast, on any podcast platform: tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
#writing
Listen to her on the latest episode of @davidnaimon.bsky.social's podcast, on any podcast platform: tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
#writing
Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform - Tin House
In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion o...
tinhouse.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Loved being on this podcast
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A podcast interview with @lilydunn.bsky.social! Do listen: Lily is an amazing author and teacher of #memoir #writing. For the opportunity to pose your own questions, come and join us for our @womenwritersnet.bsky.social interview of 22 January at 6 pm GMT with Lily Dunn!
Manchester University Press (@manchesterup.bsky.social)
In 'Into Being' @lilydunn.bsky.social explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it, and her own experience of writing memoir. Listen to her on the latest episode of…
bsky.app
January 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
A podcast interview with @lilydunn.bsky.social! Do listen: Lily is an amazing author and teacher of #memoir #writing. For the opportunity to pose your own questions, come and join us for our @womenwritersnet.bsky.social interview of 22 January at 6 pm GMT with Lily Dunn!
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Whether you're writing or reading #memoir, @lilydunn.bsky.social's #IntoBeing is a must. Here is Lily's recent interview on @davidnaimon.bsky.social's podcast. To ask Lily your own questions, come and join us for our @womenwritersnet.bsky.social interview of 22 Jan at 6 pm!
David Naimon (@davidnaimon.bsky.social)
Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!…
bsky.app
January 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Whether you're writing or reading #memoir, @lilydunn.bsky.social's #IntoBeing is a must. Here is Lily's recent interview on @davidnaimon.bsky.social's podcast. To ask Lily your own questions, come and join us for our @womenwritersnet.bsky.social interview of 22 Jan at 6 pm!
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Join the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop) for our 2026 Winter Online Workshop and cozy up to better craft!
Purchase: tinhouse.com/product/2026...
Purchase: tinhouse.com/product/2026...
January 10, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Join the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop) for our 2026 Winter Online Workshop and cozy up to better craft!
Purchase: tinhouse.com/product/2026...
Purchase: tinhouse.com/product/2026...
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I noticed the New York Times omitted the “fucking bitch” line from their story on yesterday’s video. Normalized misogyny, as @milleridriss.bsky.social argues in her book Man Up, smooths the path toward violence.
We know just about everything we need to know by the last two words issued by the agent-or by a man nearby- on his cellphone video: “Fucking bitch.”
This is uncontrolled rage from a man who could not handle a woman standing up 1/
The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments
This is uncontrolled rage from a man who could not handle a woman standing up 1/
The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments
January 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I noticed the New York Times omitted the “fucking bitch” line from their story on yesterday’s video. Normalized misogyny, as @milleridriss.bsky.social argues in her book Man Up, smooths the path toward violence.
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To all the comrades out there on this Friday making the decision to survive more.
January 9, 2026 at 1:40 PM
To all the comrades out there on this Friday making the decision to survive more.
Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront qu...
tinhouse.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
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In the fall, a group called Literary Portland for Palestine asked Portland Book Festival to divest from Wells Fargo sponsorship funding. They've since grown into a collective working to raise awareness. And because they're a literary organization, they're doing it with poems.
Literary Portland for Palestine Plans Readings, Still Asks Portland Book Fest To Divest
At Portland Book Festival, in November, you may have noticed an icon on t-shirts, posters, and social media of Literary Arts' red umbrella dropping bombs. The graphic read "Drop Wells Fargo" and "Lite...
www.portlandmercury.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
In the fall, a group called Literary Portland for Palestine asked Portland Book Festival to divest from Wells Fargo sponsorship funding. They've since grown into a collective working to raise awareness. And because they're a literary organization, they're doing it with poems.
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In 'Into Being' @lilydunn.bsky.social explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it, and her own experience of writing memoir.
Listen to her on the latest episode of @davidnaimon.bsky.social's podcast, on any podcast platform: tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
#writing
Listen to her on the latest episode of @davidnaimon.bsky.social's podcast, on any podcast platform: tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
#writing
Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform - Tin House
In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion o...
tinhouse.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
In 'Into Being' @lilydunn.bsky.social explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it, and her own experience of writing memoir.
Listen to her on the latest episode of @davidnaimon.bsky.social's podcast, on any podcast platform: tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
#writing
Listen to her on the latest episode of @davidnaimon.bsky.social's podcast, on any podcast platform: tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
#writing
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Donald Trump is doing extrajudicial war the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
January 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Donald Trump is doing extrajudicial war the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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This summer, I took myself to the beach for two days & wrote a letter to my fellow educators about “AI.”
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
“Human Beings! Human Beings!” An Open Letter to Educators on the Dangers of AI
A high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor denounces AI as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
rethinkingschools.org
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
This summer, I took myself to the beach for two days & wrote a letter to my fellow educators about “AI.”
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
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I bought the hardback after listening to the fantastic two-episode podcast hosted by @davidnaimon.bsky.social. I wrote all over my copy (content and prose style notes) if that's helpful to know when juggling budgets.
tinhouse.com/podcast/naom...
tinhouse.com/podcast/naom...
Naomi Klein : Doppelganger : Part One - Tin House
Naomi Klein’s new book, Doppelganger, is a departure for her. One some of her closest friends even cautioned her against. On the one hand, it is what we’ve come to expect from Klein, a brilliant frami...
tinhouse.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I bought the hardback after listening to the fantastic two-episode podcast hosted by @davidnaimon.bsky.social. I wrote all over my copy (content and prose style notes) if that's helpful to know when juggling budgets.
tinhouse.com/podcast/naom...
tinhouse.com/podcast/naom...
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Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform - Tin House
In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion o...
tinhouse.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
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This is my favourite literary podcast, so it was such an immense pleasure to be interviewed by
@davidnaimon.bsky.social - hope you enjoy it
@davidnaimon.bsky.social - hope you enjoy it
Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform - Tin House
In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion o...
tinhouse.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM
This is my favourite literary podcast, so it was such an immense pleasure to be interviewed by
@davidnaimon.bsky.social - hope you enjoy it
@davidnaimon.bsky.social - hope you enjoy it
Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform - Tin House
In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion o...
tinhouse.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
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Highly recommend this astute and powerful book;
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront qu...
tinhouse.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Highly recommend this astute and powerful book;
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Five guests who appeared on BTC in 2025—Rickey Laurentiis, Caren Beilin, Madeleine Thien, Olga Ravn & Omar El Akkad— are longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award this year. You can check out the conversations about their acclaimed books at tinhouse.com/podcasts
@bookcritics.bsky.social
@bookcritics.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Five guests who appeared on BTC in 2025—Rickey Laurentiis, Caren Beilin, Madeleine Thien, Olga Ravn & Omar El Akkad— are longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award this year. You can check out the conversations about their acclaimed books at tinhouse.com/podcasts
@bookcritics.bsky.social
@bookcritics.bsky.social
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the transcript is up for the conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
Between the Covers Randa Abdel-Fattah Interview - Tin House
David Naimon: You’re reading a 400-page manuscript. This is your job. But when, 200 pages in, a bunch of clowns mysteriously show up, the plot goes off the rails. It’s your job to fix this manuscript....
tinhouse.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
the transcript is up for the conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
Five guests who appeared on BTC in 2025—Rickey Laurentiis, Caren Beilin, Madeleine Thien, Olga Ravn & Omar El Akkad— are longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award this year. You can check out the conversations about their acclaimed books at tinhouse.com/podcasts
@bookcritics.bsky.social
@bookcritics.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Five guests who appeared on BTC in 2025—Rickey Laurentiis, Caren Beilin, Madeleine Thien, Olga Ravn & Omar El Akkad— are longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award this year. You can check out the conversations about their acclaimed books at tinhouse.com/podcasts
@bookcritics.bsky.social
@bookcritics.bsky.social
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Look, we are not unspectacular things.
We've come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more?
To love harder?
- Ada Limón
We've come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more?
To love harder?
- Ada Limón
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Look, we are not unspectacular things.
We've come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more?
To love harder?
- Ada Limón
We've come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more?
To love harder?
- Ada Limón
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This is a brilliant conversation & well worth a listen ⬇️
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront qu...
tinhouse.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This is a brilliant conversation & well worth a listen ⬇️
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This podcast with Carl Phillips and @davidnaimon.bsky.social is incredible! So many ideas to boost the poet's craft and creative energy. So much heart. Plus—Phillips answers a great question from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and mentions my guiding light, Teresa of Ávila. ❤️
Carl Phillips : Scattered Snows, to the North - Tin House
Today’s guest is one of the most singular and celebrated Anglophone poets writing today, Carl Phillips. We center his latest collection, Scattered Snows, to the North, his first since winning the 2023...
tinhouse.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This podcast with Carl Phillips and @davidnaimon.bsky.social is incredible! So many ideas to boost the poet's craft and creative energy. So much heart. Plus—Phillips answers a great question from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and mentions my guiding light, Teresa of Ávila. ❤️
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I just finished reading The Wax Child by @olgaravn.bsky.social , finished it in less than 24 hours. It's so astonishingly good, mesmerizing and propulsive.
Now I will listen again to this fascinating podcast, which I have already heard twice!
Now I will listen again to this fascinating podcast, which I have already heard twice!
Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
@ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
@ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House
Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...
tinhouse.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I just finished reading The Wax Child by @olgaravn.bsky.social , finished it in less than 24 hours. It's so astonishingly good, mesmerizing and propulsive.
Now I will listen again to this fascinating podcast, which I have already heard twice!
Now I will listen again to this fascinating podcast, which I have already heard twice!