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David Naimon, Milkweed Editions hosts Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry, a arts show with 343 episodes published.
Today’s guest is writer, poet and translator Eleni Sikelianos. We discuss her hybrid-genre, ancestral memoir Memory Rehearsal, a work that moves between poetry and prose, image and text, human and animal, history a
Lisa Robertson’s Riverwork twins the mysterious disappearance of the great aunt of our protagonist, Lucy Frost, and that same aunt’s interest in a long-disappeared river, buried under the streets of Paris. As
Today’s archival episode with Richard Powers, about The Overstory, was recorded in 2019 in the studios of KBOO community radio in Portland, Oregon. Unusually, that same night I appeared with Richard at a live ticke
Dionne Brand says of Giada Scodellaro debut novel, winner of the prestigious Novel Prize: “ Ruins, Child takes us to the crumbling architecture of a future past; a future past that is possibly now. In this work of
Martyr Loser King, the debut graphic novel of poet, musician, actor and director Saul Williams, with art by Morgan Sorne, not only exists in the same world as his feature film Neptune Frost, but also that of three of his
Today’s classic episode from the archives with Zadie Smith was recorded in 2019 at the studios of KBOO community radio to discuss her story collection Grand Union. The conversation ranges wildly—from the politics o
One of the elements that makes Molly Crabapple’s latest book so remarkable is, not only the remarkable stories it unearths and retells, but more specifically how she tells these stories, these erased stories, these
Lily Brooks-Dalton’s Ruins is both a cleverly plotted page-turner, and an emotionally engaging, character-driven novel with an unforgettable protagonist; it’s both erudite and a wild ride, inviting and yet my
Excited to share this classic episode from the archives with one of the great short storytellers of our time, Ted Chiang. This conversation happened in 2019 at the studios of KBOO community radio in Portland, Oregon. Bla
Today’s conversation with Jordy Rosenberg is many things but at its heart it explores the question of what it means to write revolutionary literature (or as Trotsky would call it “October literature”).
When Cynthia Cruz describes Joan Naviyuk Kane’s latest collection as a series of poems that “both shows and enacts how a self is brought to being through the abyss,” I think of Kane’s own words ab
Today’s episode is a classic from the archives, a conversation from 2019 with Brandon Shimoda about his book The Grave on the Wall. While the book centers on an exploration of Shimoda’s grandfather’s internment at
What if we were to take seriously that we, as humans, aren’t the sole authors of our world, that there are other intelligences at play, that we are only one of many agents of change and transformation, and that 
Canisia Lubrin returns to Between the Covers for a live conversation in downtown Portland, at Powell’s Bookstore, about her latest poetry collection The World After Rain. A private book, that Canisia never intended
Today’s episode is a classic from the archives, a conversation from 2019 with current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets about his debut poetry collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. Winner of
“When I tell you a story about my body, I cannot separate it from a story about water. And a story about water is also a story about family. And a story about family is rooted in the earth…,” opens Sang
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 notio
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 questions of sil
Jorge Luis Borges called her the “Tolstoy of Mexico” and César Aira the “greatest novelist of the 20th century,” so why is it likely that you haven’t read or even heard of Elena Garro before
Caren Beilin’s first appearance on the show, in 2022 to discuss her book Revenge of the Scapegoat , was so unforgettable, and spurred so much enthusiasm and electrifying conversation in its wake, that I couldn̵
Saul Williams
1 appearance on this show
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Discipline
1 appearance on this show
Robert Macfarlane
Professor at Cambridge · Cambridge University
1 appearance on this show
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
author
1 appearance on this show
Torrey Peters
2 appearances on this show
Omar El Akkad
award-winning Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist
1 appearance on this show
Danez Smith
1 appearance on this show
Amitav Ghosh
The Great Derangement
1 appearance on this show
Naomi Klein
celebrated author, professor and activist · Compass Beverly Hills Office
2 appearances on this show
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
1 appearance on this show
Max Porter
1 appearance on this show
Richard Powers
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
1 appearance on this show
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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry is hosted by David Naimon, Milkweed Editions. The show is categorised under arts (books) and has published 343 episodes.
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