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Romance novels as threshold medicine. Conversations with romance authors and others who work at the threshold, reading stories for what they teach about our own crossings.
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میانگین طول صدا:
73 minutes
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پادکست ویدیویی
انگلیسی
ایالات متحده آمریکا
22 قسمت
از سال 26 سپتامبر 2025
episodic
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Fairy tales were not written for children, and most of them are not love stories at all. Kelly Jarvis, who teaches fairy tales and folklore, returns to the show to trace what the romance novel took from the old tales, and what a romance can do that a fairy tale never could.
Along the way she reads …
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Ask a room of romance readers what the books do for them and the first word is escape. Then coping. Then checking out.
Stay a little longer and the stories say something else.
A woman who learned to say “I can’t today” out loud, after years of hiding what her body was doing, because a character she…
When you listen to an audiobook, a stranger's voice has been in your head for ten hours or more, and most of us never stop to wonder whose body it came out of.
Christa Lewis narrates romance as Pippa Jayne. She takes apart what actually happens between a page and your ear: how she finds a character…
Romance novels are medicine for the crossing. Not a distraction from your life changing. Medicine for it.
Season two of Romancing the Threshold opens on its own, with the idea the rest of it stands on. When a crossing is real, the thing that's missing is almost never information. Most of us know ex…
Some doors close so quietly we forget our own hand was on them. Rebecca Nelson, a literature student and bookseller who helps run a romance book club, sat down to talk about what readers are looking for when they reach for romance. What unfolded was the story of her own crossing, a woman who had qu…
The smallest things tend to carry the most: a fairy tale, a love story, a cup of tea made with real attention.
Vanessa sits down with writer and fairy tale scholar Kelly Jarvis, whose debut novel, Sea and Stars (out July 7th), is a gothic retelling of Beauty and the Beast set between the Isle of Sk…
Karla Sorensen writes contemporary romance set in the world of professional football, and inside her pages she's quietly doing something extraordinary: rendering grief with the care of someone who's apprenticed to it, drawing men from the inside of their armor, and writing women with their own sove…
Content note: This episode touches briefly on a sexual assault scene from a romance novel as the entry point for our somatic conversation. The scene itself isn't described in detail. Please listen with care.
What if the body of the reader is the third character in every romance novel — the one nobo…
There are five aspects of the self that culture teaches women to hide — and romance novels have been quietly reopening every single one. In this solo episode, I name them: body, rage, pleasure, instinct, and sovereignty. Five Forbidden Doors, each one guarded by the stories we've been told to dismi…
Almost twenty years ago, a dream about a wedding made me abandon my thesis on Saturn and depression and write instead about the healing power of romantic comedies. That thesis became a spell — I lived everything I wrote, and more than a year later, I met my husband. Then I forgot about it for nearl…
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