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

We're revisiting our 2021 interview with the poet Jericho Brown, who this week was named a MacArthur Fellow-- one of... more

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

Jordan chats with Sofia Samatar (The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain and Opacities) about having two books out this... more

Jordan chats with Emma Copley Eisenberg (Housemates) about a ghostly encounter that led to her new novel, the opposing worldviews... more

Shades on, sleeves up—it's summertime and we're back! This week, Jordan talks with Amy Lin, author of Here After, about... more

This is a re-airing of our 2021 episode with the poet and bestselling essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil. We're celebrating the release... more

Jordan chats with Dorothea Lasky (The Shining) about interpreting a horror classic in her latest poetry collection, her love for... more

Jordan talks with Vinson Cunningham (Great Expectations) about finding himself in the midst of history, discovering ways to hang onto... more

Jordan chats with Meghan O'Rourke (The Invisible Kingdom) about hiding from herself, the death of her father, and the challenges... more

Jordan talks with Rumaan Alam (Leave the World Behind) about money, freedom, his recent period of creative fecundity, and the... more

Jordan talks with artist and writer Maira Kalman about the death of her husband Tibor Kalman, the process of grief,... more

Thresholds is back! To open a new season, Jordan sits down with McKenzie Wark live at PioneerWorks in Red Hook,... more

For her last guest as guest-host, Mira chats with former mentee Gina Chung about her debut novel Sea Change, writing... more

J Wortham joins Mira to talk about the power of changes -- changing location, changing names, changing pronouns -- and... more

Legendary cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft (Where I’m Coming From) joins Mira to talk about building a life out of odd jobs,... more

Writer and organizer Sarah Thankam Mathews (All This Could Be Different) joins Mira to discuss a brush with mortality in... more

Poet Layli Long Soldier joins Mira to talk about her transformation during pregnancy, learning to open up to the possibilities... more

Comedian Hari Kondabolu joins Mira to talk about seeing space for himself on the screen, discovering an answer to the... more

Mira chats with novelist Angie Cruz (How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water) about figuring out who you... more

Guest-host Mira Jacob talks with astrologer and author Chani Nicholas about being the child at the party, how Chani found... more

Big News: novelist/memoirist/wonderful human Mira Jacob will be stepping into the host chair this spring! This week, she and Jordan... more

Hafizah Geter (The Black Period) joins Jordan to discuss her family's influence on her work, the power of memory, being... more

Sam Lipsyte (No One Left to Come Looking For You) joins Jordan to talk about giving up on punk rock,... more

Heather Radke joins Jordan to talk about Butts: A Backstory, the playful invitation of the book's title, the general unruliness... more

Thresholds reaches its centenary episode with equal parts celebration and consideration. We reached out to old friends to leave us... more

It's the end of our last full capsule for 2022 -- and what a joyful, life-affirming batch of conversations it... more

Alyssa Songsiridej (Little Rabbit) chats with Jordan about moving to a new city, the scary-freeing experience of being away from... more

Jordan talks with Asali Solomon about The Days of Afrekete, the unexpected discovery that she’s a funny writer, and trying... more

Poet Saeed Jones joins Jordan to talk about the long-term experience of grief, the intensity of writing from the point... more

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (The Fact of a Body) joins Jordan to talk about a particularly life-altering haircut, the power of a... more

Chloé Cooper Jones (Easy Beauty) joins Jordan to talk about avoiding mandates, about writing through pain and trauma, and about... more

Jordan talks with poet/performer/advocate Kay Ulanday Barrett about their decision to get top surgery, the intersection of family and food,... more

It's the end of our 'ghosts' capsule and not a moment too soon! Those days sure are getting shorter...FEATURED:Patrick Cottrell... more

Samantha Hunt joins Jordan to talk about The Unwritten Book, what it means to believe in ghosts, grieving the death... more

Jordan talks with Ingrid Rojas Contreras (The Man Who Could Move Clouds) about the accident that left her with amnesia,... more

Jordan talks to Amy Fusselman about writers who perform, getting out of your own head, and the agonies and ecstasies... more

Celeste Ng joins Jordan to talk about her new book Our Missing Hearts, motherhood and parenting while writing, and the... more

It's the end of a 'Family' capsule of episodes and the last before our summer break, so we really pulled... more

Jordan talks with Michelle Tea about her new memoir (Knocking Myself Up), making the decision to get pregnant, her tarot... more

Jordan talks with Keith Gessen about his new memoir of fatherhood, Raising Raffi: The First Five Years, and the challenges -- and... more

Jordan talks with Crystal Hana Kim (If You Leave Me) about the ultimate unknowability of another person's story, about motherhood... more

Jordan talks with Lydia Conklin about bucking the conventions of queer storytelling, how a childhood Oregon Trail reenactment led to... more

Jordan talks with Ashley C. Ford (author of the memoir Somebody's Daughter) about how writing made her into more of... more

It’s the end of our ‘Inheritance' capsule of episodes!MENTIONED:Marie-Helene Bertino shares her summer reading plans (hint: they involve Ursula K.... more

Jordan talks with Jhumpa Lahiri about her new collection of essays (Translating Myself and Others), how Ovid helped her navigate... more

Jordan talks with Elissa Washuta (White Magic) about the transformative nature of narrative, avoiding vs. thinking about painful things, why... more

Jordan talks with Jessamine Chan about the ways having a kid changed her writing, about the difficulties mothers face in... more

Jordan talks with Morgan Talty in advance of his debut story collection about moms, storytelling, writing from a teen point... more

Jordan talks to Stephanie Foo about Complex PTSD, what it takes to accept and understand a diagnosis, and the transformative... more

It’s the end of our ‘The World Around Us' capsule of episodes!MENTIONED:Jordan calls up Ross Gay to talk about his... more

Jordan talks with Jeff VanderMeer about the process of re-wilding his backyard, his initial obsession with uprooting air potatoes, learning... more

Now celebrating its fifth season, Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by 2021 KCRW... more

Jordan talks with N. Scott Momaday about the Stanford fellowship that changed his life, the importance of taking the natural... more

Lulu Miller joins Jordan to talk about heartbreak and building back from it, about making writing the healthy choice, about... more

adrienne maree brown joins Jordan to talk about the moment she learned what her style of leadership looked like, about... more

Allegra Hyde talks to Jordan about the peripatetic experience she had trying to find herself in utopian communities after college... more

Ed Yong joins Jordan to tell the story of his pandemic puppy, Typo, and how introducing a new animal to... more

It’s the end of our ‘experimentation’ capsule of episodes and Jordan is joined in the studio by Thresholds producer Drew... more

Sheila Heti joins Jordan to talk about grief, god, the shape of her novel, and what it means to be... more