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Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 02/21/2025
… Editions In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan … I think of the conversation with Roger Reeves about his book of Fugitive Essays and with Christina Sharpe about … 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan …
Poetry

Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 04/05/2025
… Editions What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, and in one’s life? Or for water to be one’s method, mode or muse? Are inherited forms (of womanhood, of sexuality, of national identity) a gift or … conversation with poet Patrycja Humienik is about a book called We Contain Landscapes. Of course, we'll explore …
Hybrid / Nonfiction

Elissa Washuta : White Magic

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 05/01/2021
… Nonfiction David Naimon, Milkweed Editions Today’s episode of Between the Covers is with writer Elissa Washuta about White Magic, … Food, Consumption, and Control, and the Washington State Book Award finalist, My Body Is a Book of Rules, which Sallie … Today’s episode of Between the Covers is with writer Elissa Washuta about White Magic, …
Hybrid / Poetry

Sawako Nakayasu : Pink Waves

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 12/01/2022
… - 8:04am Hybrid / Poetry David Naimon, Milkweed Editions Of Sawako Nakayasu’s many literary endeavors—poetry, … only be talking to each other but Sawako’s work also blurs the boundaries between them, nesting each within the next in … tale in a sensitive translation by Elizabeth Bryer - this book is a gift.” How to Turn Into a Bird is out on December …
Fiction / Nonfiction

Martha Anne Toll : Duet for One

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 08/06/2025
… writer and critic Martha Anne Toll. Through a discussion of her latest novel Duet for One we explore the perennial mystery of writing and art-making, namely how … moved me to my core." Elizabeth McCracken adds, "It is a book that has the force of life itself, all its hurts and …
Hybrid / Nonfiction

Hélène Cixous : Rêvoir

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 02/01/2025
… memoirist and novelist Hélène Cixous returns to the show to discuss her latest genre-defying hybrid work of prose. Written during the first year of the pandemic, … savored every line of the arresting prose and ended this book yearning for more from this incredibly talented writer.” …
Fiction / SF/F

Rikki Ducornet : Trafik

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 04/18/2021
… poet, and painter Rikki Ducornet returns to Between the Covers to discuss her latest novel Trafik which is her first foray into science fiction. Ducornet’s body of work—surrealist, alchemical, gnostic, metamorphic—is … is brought to you by Elissa Washuta's White Magic, a book Kristen Arnett calls magnificent. In this collection of
Poetry

Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 04/19/2025
… - 10:57am Poetry David Naimon, Milkweed Editions From the craft of writing sex in poetry to the virtues of failing publicly, … full of a tender yet surrealist energy, this illustrated book is hallucinatory and strange, like an R-rated Shel … From the craft of writing sex in poetry to the virtues of failing …
Hybrid / Nonfiction / Poetry

Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 10/16/2025
… Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts Submitted by Anonymous (not … Editions As an artist, how does one dive into the wreck of an archive, a canon, a shared collective memory, a … the spring conversation with Patrycja Humienik about her book We Contain Landscapes to Rob Macaisa Colgate’s My Love …
Fiction / Hybrid / Nonfiction / SF/F

Cristina Rivera Garza : New and Selected Stories

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 05/01/2022
… Naimon, Milkweed Editions Cristina Rivera Garza returns to the show to discuss her New and Selected Stories,  which gathers together fiction across thirty years of her writing life. Some are stories translated into English … under the radar. Each month, a different writer selects a book they cherish and writes a personalized introduction …