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Thresholds

Jordan Kisner

This is Thresholds: a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why t...

Thresholds Podcast Guide

Listen to Thresholds, a Arts podcast by Jordan Kisner. Stream 153 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

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Valeria Luiselli

Jordan sits down with Valeria Luiselli to talk about the U.S.-Mexico border, and in particular its origin point (or terminus) in the Pacific...

38:25Mar 20, 2026

Aracelis Girmay (& an announcement)

In the penultimate episode of the series, Jordan sits down to talk with poet Aracelis Girmay about the way that reading --especially discove...

43:02Mar 12, 2026

Jayson Greene (Live!)

Jordan sits down with author Jayson Greene during a live taping of Thresholds at the Beverly Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two talk abou...

46:29Mar 6, 2026

Tayari Jones

Jordan sits down to talk with bestselling novelist Tayari Jones about the power and satisfaction of moving back home after decades away, and...

49:52Feb 25, 2026

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Jordan sits down with marine biologist, writer, and climate advocate Ayana Johnson to talk about her mission to fight climate fatalism, her...

37:24Oct 8, 2025

Claire Vaye Watkins

Jordan sits down with Claire Vaye Watkins to talk about how the grief over her mother's death diffused into a homesickness for the landscape...

57:21Oct 1, 2025

Mariana Enriquez

This week, Jordan sits down with the "queen of Latin American gothic horror," Mariana Enriquez, to talk about the manuscript she burned and...

44:34Sep 24, 2025

Miriam Toews

Jordan sits down to talk with Miriam Toews about her new book, A Truce That Is Not Peace , her first nonfiction book, and the events that in...

48:51Sep 17, 2025

Renee Gladman

Jordan sits down with Renee Gladman to talk about prose architecture, Henry James, walking in cities, and mushrooms. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

42:49Jun 25, 2025

Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker sits down with Jordan to discuss writing about the unsung pleasures and details of the world-- things like the way your moth...

40:12Jun 18, 2025

Sarah Aziza

Sarah Aziza sits down with Jordan to talk about the eating disorder that almost took her life in 2019, and the search into her family's hist...

51:06Jun 11, 2025

Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko sits down with Jordan to talk about the daily journaling practice that she started at age five, and the period of creative crisis be...

41:52Jun 4, 2025

Sabrina Imbler

Jordan sits down to talk with Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches, about writing the non-human world, leaving the world of l...

39:59Mar 26, 2025

Maya Binyam

This week, Jordan sits down to talk with Maya Binyam, author of the novel Hangman, about a near-drowning that changed her life. Maya Binyam...

52:10Mar 19, 2025

Carvell Wallace

This week, we're sharing a live conversation between Jordan and Carvell Wallace, recorded last year at P&T Knitwear in New York. They talk a...

43:12Mar 12, 2025

Lidia Yuknavitch

This week, Jordan sits down to talk with Lidia Yuknavitch about menopause, where stories lodge in our bodies, having a creative process that...

42:47Mar 5, 2025

Live! Garth Greenwell

This week, we bring you a live interview with Garth Greenwell, conducted in October 2024 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Garth talks about gro...

55:34Nov 15, 2024

Remix! Jericho Brown

We're revisiting our 2021 interview with the poet Jericho Brown, who this week was named a MacArthur Fellow-- one of the highest honors in t...

49:29Oct 4, 2024

Sigrid Nunez

This week, Jordan talks to the novelist Sigrid Nunez about her youthful preoccupation with mimicking the prose of Virginia Woolf, the step-b...

51:57Sep 19, 2024

Questions About Thresholds

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Thresholds is listed as a Arts show. The show language is listed as English.

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