Thresholds

Katie Kitamura on the Discomfort of Calling Herself a Writer

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

Aimee Bender on Creating Structure to Ward Off Writing Dread

“I Wanted to Make the Connection and Then I Wanted to Take You to Cinnabon.” Ryka Aoki on Writing Trans Stories

Gregory Pardlo on Trusting What’s on the Other Side of Sobriety... and Poetry

“Is This Really a Good Idea?” Susan Orlean on Getting Over Her Own Skepticism

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Growing Up in the Socialist Workers Party

Bad Seed Warren Ellis on the Spirituality of Music and Nina Simone’s Chewing Gum

How Rita Dove Cultivates Her “Island of the Mind”

Sanaë Lemoine on the Reveal That Changed Her Life... and Inspired Her Novel

Andrew Martin on the Fine Line Between Autofiction and Autobiographical Fiction

Rebecca Carroll on the Joy and Relief of Finding Catharsis Through Crafting Memoir

Maggie Nelson on Climate Change and Hopelessness

Alexandra Kleeman on the Artificial Boundary Between the Natural and Man-Made

Lauren Sandler on Setting Up Ground Rules with Her Book Subjects

Eula Biss on the Essay’s Amenability to Ambivalence

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