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 is the author of Hangman , which was named a 2024 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree, received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and the Dublin Literary Award. She is the recipient of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review , the New Yorker , Best American Short Stories , and elsewhere. She is an advisory editor of the Paris Review . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Maya Binyam is an episode from Thresholds by Jordan Kisner.

This episode is 52:10 long.

This episode was published on Mar 19, 2025.

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