The Thresholds Letter

The Thresholds Letter

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Finds The Place That Is Hers
"It can be really overwhelming thinking about climate change because: where do we begin? There’s something about laying out all the pieces and finding…
Oct 10
Claire Vaye Watkins Diffuses Grief into Landscapes
"I could see it all through the absence, the absence of my mother and of all that land."
Oct 3
Miriam Toews Refuses Silence
"How I could meet my sister? Where could we meet in the writing, or in silence— or in my mind?"
Sep 19
Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral
"I figured out how to make my own sentences get long and twisty and spiraly and I figured that out through drawing."
Jul 3
Nicholson Baker on Unsung Delight
"I wanted make a fuss with a pencil over some piece of life that has not been drawn."
Jun 21
Sarah Aziza Chooses the Pain of Love
"My intuition and I were still not on very good terms, but I felt my intuition prick at that moment. There was something in me that leapt up."
Jun 14
Lisa Ko Destroys A Lifetime of Journals
"If I didn’t write it down, did it even happen? Would I remember it? What would that mean for me?"
Jun 7
Sabrina Imbler Finds Their Forms
"I'm really interested in going beyond that relationship of sameness."
Mar 27
Maya Binyam Loses the Illusion
"It started to not make sense to me that I hadn’t drowned."
Mar 19
Carvell Wallace Gets Into Right Relation
"I was aware as I was writing the book that I was undergoing this transformation. I'm still undergoing it."
Mar 12
Lidia Yuknavitch Waits for Her Wave
"We’re getting a really good look at what the vacuum of idiots looks like."
Mar 5
Live! Garth Greenwell on the Ruthless Pursuit of an Aesthetic Life
"My whole aesthetic practice is predicated on— if something is too much, you do more of it."
Nov 15, 2024
The Thresholds Letter
The Thresholds Letter
Thresholds is an interviews project with writers and artists about the messiness, overlap, u-turns, revelations, and friction points from which their best work is made.
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