Thresholds is a series of interviews with writers and artists about the messiness, overlap, u-turns, revelations, and friction points from which their best work is made. Sometimes the thresholds are big, like giving birth or finding a new name. Sometimes they’re deceptively mundane, like going to the dentist or eating an unfamiliar mushroom. Our guests are Pulitzer Prize-winners and first-time authors, nonagenarians and teenagers; MacArthur Geniuses and bestsellers and underground icons; reporters, organizers, musicians, critics, poets, and painters. You can find over a hundred conversations with them on the podcast.
Thresholds has existed as a podcast since March 2020. More than a hundred conversations later, we present to you the (e)publication arm of the project. Subscribe for episode drops, excerpts from our archives, unheard audio, prompts and provocations from our guests, merch announcements, and surprises.
Want a sense of the show? You can listen and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts. We recommend starting with:
Ross Gay on realizing he needed to confront his own sadness
Ocean Vuong on the cornfield that enabled his escape
Jhumpa Lahiri on translating Ovid while her mother was dying
Margo Jefferson on a haunting
Eileen Myles on having no thresholds whatsoever
And you can always find out more about the show at our website.
