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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.


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

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
September 8, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Lauren Sandler on Setting Up Ground Rules with Her Book Subjects

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
September 1, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Eula Biss on the Essay’s Amenability to Ambivalence

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
August 25, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
August 18, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Mary Ruefle on How Art Exploded Her World

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
August 11, 2021  By Thresholds 
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How Nadia Owusu Discovered the Story She Needed To Tell

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
August 4, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Michelle Orange on the Particular Anger Between Mothers and Daughters

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
July 28, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Rivka Galchen on Her Instinct to Abandon Projects

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
July 21, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Kaveh Akbar on Getting Sober and the Supernatural Language of Writing

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
July 14, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Kristen Radtke: “Putting Anything into the World Is Totally Humiliating”

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
July 7, 2021  By Thresholds 
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