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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.


Hilary Leichter: “I Don’t Feel Like I’m in a Realist World”

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner
May 26, 2021  By Thresholds 
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C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner
May 19, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Rachel Kushner: Everything Behind You Is Part of Your Present Tense

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner
May 12, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Hanif Abdurraqib on Decentering Pain in the Stories of Black Lives

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner
May 5, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Ahmed Naji on the Contemporary Reality of the Exiled Writer

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner
April 28, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil: If You’re Going to Cut Down Forests, Have the Decency to Name What You Destroy

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner
April 21, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Jordan Kisner on Obsession Versus Possession in Thin Places

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast
April 14, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Fariha Róisín on Learning to Care Less About the Publishing World’s Rules

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
April 7, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Melissa Febos on Facing the Daunting Essay

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
March 31, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Marie-Helene Bertino on the Dual Portals of Trauma and Friendship

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
March 24, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
March 17, 2021  By Thresholds 
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How Being the Opposite of an Art Monster Has Helped Lynn Steger Strong’s Work

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
March 10, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Fernanda Melchor on the Complicities of Fairy Tales and Femicide

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
March 3, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Lydia Millet on Letting the Work Change You

The Author of A Children’s Bible Talks to Jordan Kisner
February 24, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Ross Gay on Understanding Delight Through Sadness

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
February 17, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Suleika Jaouad Confronts Life After Illness

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
February 10, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Eileen Myles on Approaching Writing Like a Game of Hearts

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
February 3, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Margo Jefferson: ‘If I Can’t Find a Way to Do That… Why Am I Writing a Memoir?’

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
January 27, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Catherine Lacey on the Religious Experience of Reading the Right Book at the Right Time

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
January 20, 2021  By Thresholds 
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Raven Leilani: It’s More Humane to Allow the Narrator to Be Unreliable

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
January 13, 2021  By Thresholds 
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