Jordan Kisner

Thresholds

Arts EN ↓ 153 episodes

This is Thresholds, a series of interviews with writers and artists you love about the transformative experiences (surprises, crises, existential freakouts, u-turns, breakthroughs) that have shaped their work. The life-wasn’t-the-same-after-that moments. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the essay collection THIN PLACES. Thresholds is a co-production between Black Mountain Institute and Literary Hub. www.thisisthresholds.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Jordan Kisner

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Alexander Chee 18.03.2020 23:32

Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night , and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, all from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic , and an editor at large at VQR . His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Tin House, Slate, and Guernica, among other...

Mira Jacob 11.03.2020 37:04

Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a best book of the year by Time , Esquire , Publisher’s Weekly , and Library Journal . It is currently in development...

Introducing Thresholds 07.03.2020 1:41

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 they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the new essay collection, Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/shows/storybound Learn more about your a...