Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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David Naimon, Milkweed Editions Visit website › Arts · EN · 359 episodes · latest 2026-11-10

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  1. 2026-11-10 · 2 hr 20 min

    Today’s conversation is an archival recording from 2021 with the Moroccan writer and filmmaker Abdellah Taïa discussing his novel A Country For Dying, translated by Emma Ramadan and winner of the 2021 PEN Translation…

  2. 2026-11-02 · 1 hr 33 min

    Today’s episode, recorded live at the 2nd annual Portland Poetry Confluence, is a conversation between two National Book Award winners, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha in poetry and Omar El Akkad in prose. We use the essay “Notes…

  3. 2026-10-19 · 1 hr 4 min

    Ursula K. Le Guin titled her introduction to Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing “Fear and Loathing in the Interview,” and in it she said: “The good interview is like a good badminton rally: you know right away…

  4. 2026-10-13 · 2 hr 34 min

    Layli Long Soldier returns to the show to discuss her latest remarkable poetry collection We (and/or Wé). We talk about these two connotations of we/wé, the questions of address, audience, identity and kinship implicit…

  5. 2026-10-01 · 1 hr 46 min

    Today’s unforgettable archival conversation with Elvia Wilk was recorded in-person in 2019 on the occasion of the release of her debut novel Oval. Wilk takes questions of self and other, nature and culture, human and…

  6. 2026-09-21 · 1 hr 24 min

    Today’s archival episode with Marlon James was recorded in 2019 at the studios of KBOO community radio. Marlon’s latest book The Disappearers has garnered the most talked about book review of this year, from the New…

  7. 2026-09-14 · 2 hr 41 min

    China Miéville’s much-anticipated new book The Rouse is twenty-one years in the making. He was writing it when he wrote The City & The City and Embassytown. He was writing it when he wrote October: The Story of the…

  8. 2026-09-01 · 1 hr 48 min

    Today’s conversation between Thalia Field and David Naimon, moderated by Anne de Marcken, was recorded in February as part of the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Visual Arts low residency MFA program. Thalia and…

  9. 2026-08-24 · 2 hr 21 min

    Today’s guest, poet Hajjar Baban, discusses her truly remarkable debut collection of poetry Low Flying Planes. Together we explore Kurdish poetics, the role of silence, refusal and isolation in her work, the Kurdish…

  10. 2026-08-13 · 2 hr 0 min

    Today’s conversation with poet Morgan Parker was recorded in-person in 2019 and was Morgan’s second appearance on the show. Both conversations with Morgan are unforgettable, so don’t miss her first appearance in 2017…

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