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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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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June 23, 2026
"A letter outwards with Oonagh Devitt Tremblay"
<p>Naomi is joined by writer and reader Oonagh Devitt Tremblay for a conversation that begins with Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel Clarissa and ends with Miriam Toews' recent epistolary memoir, A Truce that is Not Peace. Beginning with the fact of Tremblay's original copy of Clarissa having burned in a fire, we reflect on the impact of loss and lost objects, and how our relationship to loss changes over time; epistolary practice as a mode for processing experience, as diaries you can send away while also holding onto them; the links between epistolary practice and rejection; and writing book reviews as a true response and a letter outwards.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Reading List</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/clarissa-or-the-history-of-a-young-lady-samuel-richardson/a29ae63b973e6a41?ean=9780140432152&next=t">Clarissa</a>, Samuel Richardson</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-truce-that-is-not-peace-miriam-toews/01b05fd3265f2567?ean=9781639734740&next=t">A Truce that is Not Peace</a>, Miriam Toews</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/iza-s-ballad-magda-szabo/2b9ca2c657525715?ean=9781681370347&next=t">Iza's Ballad</a>, Magda Szabó</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/slouching-towards-bethlehem-essays-joan-didion/9438ff2599ebe53b?ean=9780374531386&next=t">Slouching Towards Bethlehem</a>, Joan Didion</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Selected writing by Oonagh Devitt Tremblay</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.oonaghdt.com/westward-glances">Westward Glances: Home and the Crisis of Language in the Work of Miriam Toews</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.frieze.com/article/lauren-elkin-scaffolding-review-2024">Lauren Elkin's 'Scaffolding' Analyses Our Unconscious Desires</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://babaa.es/blog/on-books-with-oonagh-devitt/">Interview with babaà</a></p><p><br></p><p>Oonagh Devitt Tremblay is a writer based in London. She writes novels and reviews books. Her criticism can be found in The Times Literary Supplement, Frieze, The London Magazine and Literary Review. She was born in France and raised in Canada and has lived in the UK since 2018. </p><p>Find a copy of Marginalia: an autobiography from <a href="https://autofocusbooks.com/store/p/marginalia">Autofocus Books</a>, <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781957392394/marginalia/">New York University Press</a>, or your local independent bookstore. Subscribe to <a href="https://naomiwasher.substack.com/">Process Notes</a> for further reflections on reading, subjectivity, and psychoanalysis.</p>
June 9, 2026
"A habit of mind with Mark Haber"
<p>Naomi is joined by writer Mark Haber for a conversation about the habit of mind cultivated through reading. We discuss the kind of writer who opens a door for other writers, tracing a thread through Haber’s early encounter with Kurt Vonengut to a later encounter and friendship with the Argentinian writer Rodrigo Fresán. We talk about voice-driven novels over plot-driven novels, books in conversation with each other, and books that don’t shy away from their influences, along with the American obsession with the myth of originality, of what’s never been done before. Our conversation is framed by Haber’s reading of Rodrigo Fresán’s book The Invented Part, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Reading List</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-invented-part-rodrigo-fres-n/19ba61c74c6b61c1?ean=9781940953564&next=t">The Invented Part</a>, Rodrigo Fresán</p><p><br></p><p>Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/lesser-ruins-mark-haber/31a9e7aa2aaaa7e5?ean=9781566897198&next=t">Lesser Ruins</a>, Mark Haber</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/reinhardt-s-garden-mark-haber/767e24968a7294b5?ean=9781566895620&next=t">Reinhardt’s Garden</a>, Mark Haber</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/saint-sebastian-s-abyss-mark-haber/0b50a8dece6f5a9c?ean=9781566896368&next=t">Saint Sebastian’s Abyss</a>, Mark Haber</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Pre-order Haber’s new novel </strong><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/products/ada"><strong>ADA</strong></a><strong>, out July 14, 2026 with Coffee House Press here.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Other Selected writing by Mark Haber</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://southwestreview.com/how-to-read-kafka/">How to Read Kafka</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/cesar-aira-makes-the-impossible-possible/">César Aira Makes the Impossible Possible</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/the-writer-youve-never-heard-of-that-made-my-book-possible/">The Writer You’ve Never Heard of that Made My Book Possible, on the life and writing of Mila Menendez Krause</a></p><p><br></p><p>Mark Haber was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Florida. His debut novel, Reinhardt’s Garden (2019), was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss (2022), and third, Lesser Ruins (2024) were both named as a best book of the year by the New York Public Library. His fourth novel, Ada, will be published this July. Mark's fiction has appeared in Guernica, Southwest Review, and LitHub, among others. Mark lives in Minneapolis.</p><p><br>Find a copy of Marginalia: an autobiography from <a href="https://autofocusbooks.com/store/p/marginalia">Autofocus Books</a>, <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781957392394/marginalia/">New York University Press</a>, or your local independent bookstore. Subscribe to <a href="https://naomiwasher.substack.com/">Process Notes</a> for further reflections on reading, subjectivity, and psychoanalysis.</p>
May 26, 2026
"Who speaks and who listens with Akshi Singh"
<p>Naomi is joined by writer and psychoanalyst Akshi Singh. They speak about the kind of associations that prompt more writing in the margins versus the moments of significance that are less immediately available in words; teaching oneself to write dialogue in a novel; how a listener can fade into listening; the problems we're embroiled in while reading; how the carrying-on of one version of a life can involve the repression of one's own thoughts and wishes; and psychoanalysis, friendships, and diaries as spaces where speech and writing can create new experiences of thinking.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Reading List</strong></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/voices-in-the-evening-natalia-ginzburg/3e37b6f16a9b0280?ean=9780811231008&next=t">Voices in the Evening</a>, Natalia Ginzburg</p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-life-of-one-s-own-marion-milner/d40fc030bcb11a2e?ean=9781032757551&next=t">A Life of One's Own</a>, Marion Milner</p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-end-a-story-collected-diaries-1978-1998-helen-garner/3e07073663e3e055?ean=9780553387490&next=t">How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998</a>, Helen Garner</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Selection of related essays by Akshi Singh</strong></p><p><a href="https://artreview.com/when-raising-your-voice-is-not-enough-to-be-heard-opinion-akshi-singh-anne-carson-gender-sound-laila-soueif/"><strong>When Raising Your Voice is Not Enough to be Heard</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://granta.com/issey-miyake/"><strong>Issey Miyake</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://granta.com/x/"><strong>X</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p>Akshi Singh is a writer and psychoanalyst. Born in India, she lives in Glasgow. Akshi is the author of In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner (Jonathan Cape, 2025). She works across genres, writing memoir, criticism, fiction, and poetry. Her writing on psychoanalysis, art, and politics has appeared in Granta, Parapraxis, The London Review of Books, Art Review and elsewhere. She has a PhD in literature from the University of London. She was previously a Wellcome Trust funded postdoctoral fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, and Lecturer in Global Migrations at the University of Glasgow. She is Associate Editor at Parapraxis magazine and Deputy Editor at Critical Quarterly.</p><p>Find a copy of Marginalia: an autobiography from <a href="https://autofocusbooks.com/store/p/marginalia">Autofocus Books</a>, <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781957392394/marginalia/">New York University Press</a>, or your local independent bookstore. Subscribe to <a href="https://naomiwasher.substack.com/">Process Notes</a> for further reflections on reading, subjectivity, and psychoanalysis.</p>
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