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Thresholds is a series of intimate, surprising interviews with writers and artists you love about the transformative experiences (surprises, crises, existential freakouts, u-turns, breakthroughs) that have shaped their work. The life-wasn’t-the-same-after-that moments. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the essay collection Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio.


Endnotes on Inheritance: Marie-Helene Bertino, Ocean Vuong, and More Voices from Thresholds

Hosted by Jordan Kisner and Drew Broussard
June 23, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Jhumpa Lahiri on Preserving the Multiplicity of Language

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
June 15, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Elissa Washuta on Reckoning with the Insoluble Puzzles of the Universe

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
June 8, 2022  By Thresholds 
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When Having a Baby Requires a Rewrite: Jessamine Chan on Parenthood and The School for Good Mothers

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
June 1, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Morgan Talty on Indigenous Literature, Penobscot Culture, and the Villain of Colonialism

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
May 25, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Stephanie Foo on the Transformative Power of Google Doc Therapy

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
May 18, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Endnotes on the World Around Us: Ross Gay, adrienne maree brown, and More Voices from Thresholds

Hosted by Jordan Kisner
May 4, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Armadillos Don’t Have Fangs: Jeff VanderMeer on Our Dangerous Disconnect from Nature

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
April 27, 2022  By Thresholds 
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N. Scott Momaday on Landscape, Emily Dickinson, and the Fellowship That Changed His Life

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
April 20, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Lulu Miller on Heartbreak and Getting a Little Emo on the Page

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
April 13, 2022  By Thresholds 
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adrienne maree brown on What it Looks Like to Organize with Integrity

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
April 6, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Allegra Hyde on How Communes Can Teach Us About Responding to Climate Change

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
March 30, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Ed Yong on His New Puppy! (And Going Beyond the Limits of Our Evolutionary Necessity)

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
March 23, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Endnotes on Experimentation: Sheila Heti, Alexander Chee, and More Voices from Thresholds

Hosted by Jordan Kisner and Drew Broussard
March 9, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Sheila Heti on Expanding Our Notions of Mourning

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
March 2, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Carl Erik Fisher on Undoing the Notion of Addiction as an Irredeemable State

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
February 23, 2022  By Thresholds 
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“Dialogue is Embarrassing.” Sarah Manguso on Finally Writing a Novel

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
February 16, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
February 9, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Leanne Shapton on the Desire to Always Go Bigger

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
February 2, 2022  By Thresholds 
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Katie Kitamura on the Discomfort of Calling Herself a Writer

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
December 8, 2021  By Thresholds 
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