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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...
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...
In the penultimate episode of the series, Jordan sits down to talk with poet Aracelis Girmay about the way that reading --especially discove...
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...
Jordan sits down to talk with bestselling novelist Tayari Jones about the power and satisfaction of moving back home after decades away, and...
Thresholds is happy to introduce "Borrowed & Returned," a new podcast from the Brooklyn Public Library about the books that have changed Ame...
Jordan sits down with marine biologist, writer, and climate advocate Ayana Johnson to talk about her mission to fight climate fatalism, her...
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...
This week, Jordan sits down with the "queen of Latin American gothic horror," Mariana Enriquez, to talk about the manuscript she burned and...
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...
Jordan sits down with Renee Gladman to talk about prose architecture, Henry James, walking in cities, and mushrooms. Hosted on Acast. See ac...
Nicholson Baker sits down with Jordan to discuss writing about the unsung pleasures and details of the world-- things like the way your moth...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This week, Jordan sits down to talk with Lidia Yuknavitch about menopause, where stories lodge in our bodies, having a creative process that...
This week, we bring you a live interview with Garth Greenwell, conducted in October 2024 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Garth talks about gro...
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...
This week, Jordan talks to the novelist Sigrid Nunez about her youthful preoccupation with mimicking the prose of Virginia Woolf, the step-b...
Jordan chats with Sofia Samatar ( The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain and Opacities ) about having two books out this year, doing every...
Jordan chats with Emma Copley Eisenberg ( Housemates ) about a ghostly encounter that led to her new novel, the opposing worldviews of Grace...
Shades on, sleeves up—it's summertime and we're back! This week, Jordan talks with Amy Lin, author of Here After , about grief, the sudden l...
This is a re-airing of our 2021 episode with the poet and bestselling essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil. We're celebrating the release of her n...
Jordan chats with Dorothea Lasky ( The Shining ) about interpreting a horror classic in her latest poetry collection, her love for horror, a...
Jordan talks with Vinson Cunningham ( Great Expectations ) about finding himself in the midst of history, discovering ways to hang onto mome...
Jordan chats with Meghan O'Rourke ( The Invisible Kingdom ) about hiding from herself, the death of her father, and the challenges of writin...
Jordan talks with Rumaan Alam ( Leave the World Behind ) about money, freedom, his recent period of creative fecundity, and the enduring pow...
Jordan talks with artist and writer Maira Kalman about the death of her husband Tibor Kalman, the process of grief, and her irrepressible cr...
Thresholds is back! To open a new season, Jordan sits down with McKenzie Wark live at PioneerWorks in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for a conversation...
For her last guest as guest-host, Mira chats with former mentee Gina Chung about her debut novel Sea Change , writing about the honest messy...
J Wortham joins Mira to talk about the power of changes -- changing location, changing names, changing pronouns -- and the space that can op...
Legendary cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft ( Where I’m Coming From ) joins Mira to talk about building a life out of odd jobs, the double-ed...
Writer and organizer Sarah Thankam Mathews ( All This Could Be Different ) joins Mira to discuss a brush with mortality in a rip-tide off th...
Poet Layli Long Soldier joins Mira to talk about her transformation during pregnancy, learning to open up to the possibilities of the world,...
Comedian Hari Kondabolu joins Mira to talk about seeing space for himself on the screen, discovering an answer to the question of how to be...
Mira chats with novelist Angie Cruz ( How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water ) about figuring out who you want to be, Angie's semi-secret hist...
Guest-host Mira Jacob talks with astrologer and author Chani Nicholas about being the child at the party, how Chani found her voice, and the...
Big News: novelist/memoirist/wonderful human Mira Jacob will be stepping into the host chair this spring! This week, she and Jordan sit down...
Hafizah Geter ( The Black Period ) joins Jordan to discuss her family's influence on her work, the power of memory, being in conversation wi...
Sam Lipsyte ( No One Left to Come Looking For You ) joins Jordan to talk about giving up on punk rock, rediscovering a passion for writing,...
Heather Radke joins Jordan to talk about Butts: A Backstory , the playful invitation of the book's title, the general unruliness of bodies,...
Thresholds reaches its centenary episode with equal parts celebration and consideration. We reached out to old friends to leave us some voic...
It's the end of our last full capsule for 2022 -- and what a joyful, life-affirming batch of conversations it was! First up, we've got Saeed...
Alyssa Songsiridej ( Little Rabbit ) chats with Jordan about moving to a new city, the scary-freeing experience of being away from one's com...
Jordan talks with Asali Solomon about The Days of Afrekete , the unexpected discovery that she’s a funny writer, and trying to impart wisdom...
Poet Saeed Jones joins Jordan to talk about the long-term experience of grief, the intensity of writing from the point of view of another pe...
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich ( The Fact of a Body ) joins Jordan to talk about a particularly life-altering haircut, the power of a sequined tuxed...
Chloé Cooper Jones ( Easy Beauty ) joins Jordan to talk about avoiding mandates, about writing through pain and trauma, and about finding th...
Jordan talks with poet/performer/advocate Kay Ulanday Barrett about their decision to get top surgery, the intersection of family and food,...