Jordan Kisner on Waiting, Chameleons & Tiny Gross Heroes Carrying On

**We flipped the script! Lydia Millet interviews Jordan about waiting, the subway, chameleons, and thresholds to celebrate the paperback launch of Thin Places.

“I wanted to understand why the experience of falling in love felt as radically disruptive, as scary, as interesting, as compelling as the experience of being caught in a cycle of obsessions.”

Jordan Kisner is the author of the essay collection, Thin Places, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) which NPR named one of the best books of 2020. She is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and her work has appeared in n+1, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Guardian, The American Scholar, California Sunday, The Best American Essays 2016, and others. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University.