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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.


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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“This Is Where My Soul Is.’ James Han Mattson on Writing About Race and Fractured Identities

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
December 1, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Aimee Bender on Creating Structure to Ward Off Writing Dread

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
November 24, 2021  By Thresholds 
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“I Wanted to Make the Connection and Then I Wanted to Take You to Cinnabon.” Ryka Aoki on Writing Trans Stories

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
November 17, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Gregory Pardlo on Trusting What’s on the Other Side of Sobriety… and Poetry

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
November 10, 2021  By Thresholds 
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“Is This Really a Good Idea?” Susan Orlean on Getting Over Her Own Skepticism

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
November 3, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Growing Up in the Socialist Workers Party

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
October 27, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Bad Seed Warren Ellis on the Spirituality of Music and Nina Simone’s Chewing Gum

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
October 20, 2021  By Thresholds 
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How Rita Dove Cultivates Her “Island of the Mind”

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
October 13, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Sanaë Lemoine on the Reveal That Changed Her Life… and Inspired Her Novel

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
October 6, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Andrew Martin on the Fine Line Between Autofiction and Autobiographical Fiction

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
September 29, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Rebecca Carroll on the Joy and Relief of Finding Catharsis Through Crafting Memoir

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
September 22, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Maggie Nelson on Climate Change and Hopelessness

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
September 15, 2021  By Thresholds 
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