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Reading Around the Margins

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In each episode of Reading Around the Margins, Naomi Washer talks with writers, readers, translators, publishers, and booksellers about how they interact with their books as objects; how their own marginalia consciously or unconsciously informs the books they come to write; and how the experience of reading brings a book into existence.

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Episode 14: "The Thinking is the Plot with Jeannie...

Reading Around the Margins ·

2025/12/09

For our final episode of our first season, Naomi is joined by fellow Annie Ernaux enthusiast Jeannie Vanasco for an in-depth discussion on immersion in the reading process, the un-self-consciousness of writing memoir, the question of whether there is a divide between the craft and the personal, and how we make choices about what to leave out when and why. For the Annie Ernaux fans out there, Naomi and Jeannie look closely at Jeannie's marginalia in her copies of Shame and The Other Girl and

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Episode 13: "Lori Feathers on the hypnotic style of...

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2025/11/25

Naomi is joined by bookseller and podcaster Lori Feathers to discuss her reading of The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi, translated by Jamie Richards (And Other Stories, 2023). They explore the impact of this rhythmic, hypnotic prose, the embedded references to books from other cultures, and the lineage of ‘abundant’ books that drives so much of Lori’s reading.Reading List:Miss Mackintosh, My Darling by Marguerite YoungPalinuro of Mexico by Fernando del PasoDucks, Newburyport by Lucy

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Episode 12: "Lauren Elkin on reading the world afresh...

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2025/11/11

Naomi is joined by Lauren Elkin for a conversation on the permission-giving qualities of Georges Perec's Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, how reading Perec made her into a writer, and what it's like to re-see the world in the way he encourages us to do. Weaving through Elkin's own experiments in seeing with her book No. 91/92: diary of a year on the bus and the ways we live in and through our homes with her novel Scaffolding, we land in her current home in London where her accumulated

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Episode 11: "Miranda Mellis on character study as an...

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2025/10/28

Miranda Mellis joins Naomi for a discussion that indexes Michael Eigen’s book The Psychoanalytic Mystic. They discuss the resonance between annotation and free association; the experience of narrating oneself in analysis, losing the thread, doubling back, and having one’s speech be received by the other; the index as a branching form, a poem of the subjective reader; writing as social practice through collective annotation; and how sometimes a text pours salt in the wound while sometimes it

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Out on tour

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2025/10/14

Naomi is out on tour, so she will be back in two weeks with a new, full episode in conversation with Miranda Mellis, author of Crocosmia from Nightboat Books. And, as it happens, Miranda is on tour, too. Click here for a full list of her upcoming stops.Naomi's next stops are Clio's Books in Oakland, CA on Friday, October 17th with the poet and psychoanalyst Alice Jones and Third Place Books - Ravenna in Seattle, WA on Friday, October 24th with the poet and multimedia essayist/artist Cori A

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Episode 10: "Briana Parker on the worlds that opened...

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2025/09/30

Briana Parker, co-owner of Brooklyn’s Lofty Pigeon Books, joins Naomi for a discussion that begins in her thoroughly annotated copy of Ulysses from a high school English class (shouts out to Richard Roundy, Briana’s English teacher and now regular at Lofty Pigeon!) and meanders through the many worlds Briana has occupied and built in New York City — from growing up in Sheepshead Bay, to the Union Square Barnes & Noble, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the cozy kids’ corner at her

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Episode 9: "Michael Wheaton on MARGINALIA as 'a book...

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2025/09/16

To celebrate the release of Naomi's Marginalia: an autobiography, we have a bit of a role reversal in this episode. Michael Wheaton, publisher of Autofocus Books, joins us today and takes over the host chair as he chats with Naomi about Marginalia, the kind of book it turned out to be, “project” books, the idea of a book as container, and how the process of creating it altered her practice of marginalia today. This is a delightful, insightful episode on the unexpected paths a book takes to

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Episode 8: "Liz Freeman on how books can open a...

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2025/09/02

Bookseller Liz Freeman joins Naomi for a conversation about Liz’s marginalia in books by David Wojnarowicz, William Gaddis, and Kathryn Scanlan; the soundtrack playing alongside this marginalia, from Joni Mitchell and the Melvins to Frank Sinatra’s “bipolar big band hits”; her approach to making thoughtful recommendations for readers visiting the store; and more.Liz Freeman is a writer, artist and careerbookseller. She is from East County, San Diego and currently lives in Oakland where she

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Episode 7: "Hilary Leichter on the reader’s...

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2025/08/19

Writer and professor Hilary Leichter joins Naomi for a discussion about books that conjure many different realities; how the reader is made culpable to the events of a text by what they hold and create in their mind, in the gap between what’s stated and what’s implied; how teaching a book you have complex feelings about can enrich the teaching experience; inheriting large libraries; and what happened to that one box of books you shipped that never arrived at its destination? Hilary Leichter

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Episode 6: "Claire Donato on on breaking, not making...

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2025/08/05

Writer, teacher, and psychoanalytic candidate Claire Donato joins Naomi for a discussion on the convergences between psychoanalytic process and writing, reading, editing, and teaching. They discuss the capacious rigors of a reading practice, the remixing and revising of our writing and the stories we tell about our lives, and the shock of a book project emerging from one's analysis. Claire Donato is the author of three full-length books, most recently Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts (Archway

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Episode 5: "Sara Levine on on the 'devastating...

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2025/07/22

Writer and professor Sara Levine joins Naomi for a conversation on Toni Morrison's Sula, in which they discuss tracking prepositions, the use of vowel sounds in influencing readerly movement, lobbies, and the traces of different readings in oft-re-read books.To pre-order Naomi's new title, Marginalia: an autobiography, from Autofocus Books, please click here.Sara Levine is the author of the novel Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her new novel, The Hitch,

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Episode 4: "Deborah Shapiro on the influence of a...

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2025/07/08

Writer and publisher Deborah Shapiro joins Naomi in a conversation on The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh. From that starting point, they discuss the desire to create, underlining versus annotating, and the importance of lamps, physical and metaphorical.To preorder Naomi's new title, Marginalia: an autobiography from Autofocus Books, please click here.Deborah Shapiro is the author of the novels The Sun in Your Eyes (2016, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice), The Summer Demands (2019),

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Episode 3: “Rebecca van Laer on Roland Barthes’ A...

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2025/06/24

Episode 3: “Rebecca van Laer on Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse and theorizing one’s own writings on love”Naomi is joined by the writer Rebecca van Laer. They discuss Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse, writing as self-annotation, how to Pale Fire oneself, and more.To preorder Naomi’s new title, Marginalia: an autobiography from Autofocus Books, please click here.Rebecca van Laer is a writer based in the Hudson Valley. She is the author of a novella, How to Adjust to the Dark (Long Day Press,

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Episode 2: "Claire Foster on becoming two lines from...

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2025/06/10

In this second episode of Reading Around the Margins, Naomi is joined by Claire Foster, a reader, writer, and literary translator from French. In what is truly a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, Roland Barthes on Roland Barthes, projects inspired by the act of underlining, and more.To preorder Naomi’s new title, Marginalia: an autobiography from Autofocus Books, please click here.Claire Foster is a reader, writer, and literary translator from French,

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Episode 1: "Marina Blitshteyn on Theory, A Sunday"

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2025/05/27

Episode 1: “Marina Blitshteyn on Theory, A Sunday”In this first episode of Reading Around the Margins, Naomi is joined by the writer Marina Blitshteyn. They discuss the, perhaps unexpected to Marina, marginalia Marina added to her copy of Theory, A Sunday from Belladonna Press. Their conversation explores books as bodies, how trauma lives in the body, how our selves resurface and reemerge through reading and deep periods of not reading, and much more.To preorder Naomi’s new title,

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