The Thresholds Letter

The Thresholds Letter

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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."
Nicholson Baker on Unsung Delight
"I wanted make a fuss with a pencil over some piece of life that has not been drawn."
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."
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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?"
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Sabrina Imbler Finds Their Forms
"I'm really interested in going beyond that relationship of sameness."
Maya Binyam Loses the Illusion
"It started to not make sense to me that I hadn’t drowned."
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."
Lidia Yuknavitch Waits for Her Wave
"We’re getting a really good look at what the vacuum of idiots looks like."
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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."
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Remix: Jericho Brown Mitigates Violence with Tenderness
"I realized I have to live the poems. I want to live like the work I'm making."
Sigrid Nunez Creeps Along, Line by Line
"I would tell them about a piece of advice I remembered hearing from Mark Strand: When something comes easy to you, pay attention to it, because that’s…
Sofia Samatar Devises A Container to Hold It All
"I find genre a problem."
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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