Reading Around the Margins
Reading 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; and how the experience of reading brings a book into existence.
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Some of our Featured Guests
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), and Consolation (2022). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight Unseen, Chicago Magazine, Literary Hub, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She's the founder of the occasional press, B-Side Editions, an editor-at-large at Sight Unseen, and lives with her family in Chicago.
Sara Levine is the author of the novel Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her new novel, The Hitch, published by Roxane Gay Books, comes out in January. She also writes the Substack, Delusions of Grammar. She teaches creative writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Marina Blitshteyn is the author of two poetry collections, Two Hunters (Argos Books, 2019) and i take your voice (Switchback Books, 2022), Winner of the Gatewood Prize. Her chapbooks include Russian for Lovers (Argos Books), Nothing Personal (Bone Bouquet Books), $kill$ (dancing girl press), and Sheet Music (Sunnyoutside Press). Forthcoming titles include Landguage from Bunny Presse.