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On Imagining Gatsby<br> Before Gatsby

On Imagining Gatsby
Before Gatsby

Michael Farris Smith on the Origins of Nick

By Michael Farris Smith | January 11, 2021

<em>The Color Purple</em> and the Language of Healing from Trauma

The Color Purple and the Language of Healing from Trauma

Salamishah Tillet on Giving Voice to Survivors

By Salamishah Tillet | January 11, 2021

The Deep Connection of West Virginia's Indian Community

The Deep Connection of West Virginia's Indian Community

Neema Avashia on Childhood in the Kanawha Valley

By Neema Avashia | January 8, 2021

What It's Like to Learn to Sing in Your Fifties

What It's Like to Learn to Sing in Your Fifties

Tom Vanderbilt Embraces Vulnerability

By Tom Vanderbilt | January 8, 2021

Exercise is Good. But How Do We Make More Fun?

Exercise is Good. But How Do We Make More Fun?

Daniel Lieberman Has Some Ideas Just in Time For Your Resolutions

By Daniel Lieberman | January 7, 2021

Announcing Season 3 of the <em>Thresholds</em> Podcast

Announcing Season 3 of the Thresholds Podcast

Acclaimed Writers Reveal Life-Changing Experiences

By Thresholds | January 7, 2021

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What Really Goes On in a Writer’s Notebook?

By Danielle McLaughlin | January 6, 2021

People Still Ask: How Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

By Lore Segal | January 6, 2021

What It’s Like to Teach a
Magpie How to Fly

By Charlie Gilmour | January 5, 2021

A Season to Set the House on Fire: On the End of a Marriage

A Season to Set the House on Fire: On the End of a Marriage

Elaine Bleakney Navigates What Remains

By Elaine Bleakney | January 5, 2021

Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

In Conversation with Eddie Glaude on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | December 28, 2020

Natasha Trethewey on Public Grief in Poetry and Memoir

Natasha Trethewey on Public Grief in Poetry and Memoir

In Conversation with Eddie Glaude on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | December 23, 2020

Etel Adnan Contemplates Aging Amid the California Wildfires

Etel Adnan Contemplates Aging Amid the California Wildfires

"The question arises: are we just a series of chemical reactions?"

By Etel Adnan | December 23, 2020

Finding My Father Through His Relationship with Judaism

Finding My Father Through His Relationship with Judaism

Deborah Tannen on Growing Up in a Proudly Jewish—if Not Necessarily Religious—Household

By Deborah Tannen | December 22, 2020

On the Solstice: Deep Winter Dreams of the Spring to Come

On the Solstice: Deep Winter Dreams of the Spring to Come

Rick Bass Considers the Truth of Things at the Darkest Time of the Year

By Rick Bass | December 21, 2020

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and<br> Chicano Poetry

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
Chicano Poetry

politics of identity as irony."">"To be a Chicanao poet is to be dealing with the
politics of identity as irony."

By Lorna Dee Cervantes | December 21, 2020

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