David Naimon

Past BTC guest, the marvelous Melanie Rae Thon, often writes me after listening to an episode with her thoughts and impr...

If you listened to the first time I quote from this 1972 article by Gilles Deleuze, Hélène Cixous, or Stroboscopic Writi...

I'm reposting this long-form conversation with Cixous' translator from November 2022 because it is so pertinent to both...

Aria talks about why she loves Yasmin Zaher's The Coin and reads us an excerpt

There is this incredible line in Aria Aber's novel, spoken by the 19-year old, second-generation Afghan-German immigrant...

Zahid Rafiq reads for us from the chapter "Waiting from Klamm" from Kafka's The Castle

I'm sitting here, propped up in bed, with a large cup of tea, on New Year's Day morning, wondering how to introduce toda...

As the the year comes to a close, I felt the urge to reach out outside of the emails I typically send with each episode....

You may or may not remember now, but we started the year with an archival recording from the first Tin House Writers Wor...

Will Vanderhyden, the translator of all but one of Rodrigo Fresán's books into English, talks about translating Melvill,...

Ever since Rodrigo came through Portland, maybe six years ago now, and I was utterly transported by his warmth, humor an...

Because today's conversation is about a book that is, by nature, very citational, where we are discussing the many books...

Danez is one of six members of the Dark Noise Collective—with Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels,...

I'm SO excited to share today's conversation with Danez. I've long loved their poetry but in preparing for today and cor...

There is a poem in Kenzie's latest collection called "Love Song to Banish Another Love Song" which used to exist in a VE...