HeyJaredReading Around the Margins
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;…
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"OOO: August 2026" (opens the original)
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We are taking the month of August to rest, recharge, and read. We’ll be back in September with a full slate of really exciting guests, including Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Marie Darrieussecq. In the meantime, we invite you to listen to our previous episodes and to let us know what you're reading over these last summer days. Find a copy of Marginalia: an autobiography from Autofocus Books , New York University Press , or your local independent bookstore. Subscribe to Process Notes for further reflec
"Breathing a Text with Heather McCalden" (opens the original)
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Naomi and Heather begin their discussion by exploring Heather's recent questions about the function of criticism; how a person's nervous system interacts with an artwork; how theory interacts with a sense of trust and belief; how her movement training created a mode in which her body understands content first; how underlining in a book is an attempt to imprint the text in her brain, her respiration, her body; the methods of marginalia she uses to illustrate her own thought processes on revision;
"Permeable boundaries with Lindsay Lerman" (opens the original)
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Naomi is joined by Berlin-based novelist, philosopher, and translator Lindsay Lerman for a discussion that winds through Lindsay's experience with Perfume by Patrick Süskind and explores the physical experiences of reading, and reading as a practice of writing; how a book can open up a field that sparks the need to do or make something in response, whether it's a course, a book, a painting, or a devoted reading group; how permeability makes you a good storyteller; the necessary risks of being ra
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