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 between her first and second novels when she began methodically destroying every journal she'd ever kept. Mentioned in the episode: Tehching Hsieh soft gaze Moleskin daily journals Lisa Ko is the author of the new novel Memory Piece and the nationally bestselling novel The Leavers , which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Ko’s writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories , McSweeney’s , and The Believer . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Lisa Ko is an episode from Thresholds by Jordan Kisner.

This episode is 41:52 long.

This episode was published on Jun 4, 2025.

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