Introducing Guest Host Mira Jacob
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Big News: novelist/memoirist/wonderful human Mira Jacob will be stepping into the host chair this spring! This week, she and Jordan sit down for a pass-the-baton chat -- kicking off with a flashback to the very first Thresholds episode (and interview) from February 2020.
MENTIONED:
- Mira\'s Thresholds interview
- "What You Might Not Know About \'Getting Roofied\'" by Jordan Kisner
- Mira in conversation with Saeed Jones and Kiese Laymon for Bookable
Mira Jacob\\xa0is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir\\xa0Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations\\xa0was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award,\\xa0named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a best book of the year by Time, Esquire, Publisher\\u2019s Weekly, and\\xa0Library Journal. It is currently in development as a television series with Film 44. Her novel\\xa0The Sleepwalker\\u2019s Guide to Dancing\\xa0was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India\\u2019s Tata First Literature Award,\\xa0longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize and named one of the best books of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bustle, and The Millions. Her work has appeared in\\xa0The New York Times Book Review, Electric Literature, Tin House, Literary Hub,\\xa0Guernica,\\xa0Vogue, and the Telegraph.\\xa0She is currently the visiting professor at MFA Creative Writing\\xa0program at The New School, and a founding faculty member of the MFA Program at Randolph College. She is the\\xa0co-founder of\\xa0Pete\\u2019s Reading Series in Brooklyn, where she spent 13 years bringing literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to Williamsburg. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, documentary filmmaker Jed Rothstein, and their son.
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