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.
On today’s episode, Jordan talks to Fernanda Melchor about researching and writing her novel
Hurricane Season, her decision to leave Veracruz, and the complicity between fairy tale and femicide.
From the interview:
Fernanda Melchor: I kind of feel that my generation is melancholic by nature, because we’ve seen the decline of lots of things, and it is really difficult to have hope in the future. I’m obsessed with that theme. And I’m always writing about people who don’t have a future or feel they don’t have a future, or people who have lost all kind of hope in love.
Lydia Millet on Letting the Work Change You
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Ross Gay on Understanding Delight Through Sadness
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Pharmacist Brian Kiefer draws saline while preparing a dose of Pfizer s Covid-19 vaccine at UC Davis Health in Sacramento, California.
OPINION: On the day of the Christchurch earthquake in 2011, the results of the carnage were at their most graphic at Christchurch Hospital. An emergency doctor told me afterwards that medical staff and facilities were so close to complete overload that they were on the verge of apportioning treatment on the basis of who had the best chance of surviving. They almost left a man who had lost several limbs to his fate but had just enough capacity to save him.
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.
In this episode, Catherine Lacey, author of the novel
Pew, discusses the impressionability of a religious childhood, how being a stranger in a new town influenced her novel, and the ineffability of voice.
From the interview:
Jordan Kisner: There’s something you’ve been saying and I want to probe it a little bit deeper, which is that the relationship you’re describing having with the Bible as this young, impressionable person who’s trying to figure out how to be in the world like there’s a right way to be, and this book is going to help you figure out what it is, and the stakes are really high. It is striking that then you grew up to be a person who