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Romancing the Threshold

Vanessa Couto

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. vanessacouto.substack.com

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23 episodes

  1. Grumpy Sunshine: My Husband on Romance 1:14:40
  2. Kelly Jarvis: Beauty and the Beast as an Economic Story 1:32:56
  3. Romance Book Club Roundtable: A Happily Ever After Every Day 1:16:04
  4. Christa Lewis: The Body Behind the Voice 1:20:46
  5. The Threshold Lover: The Eight Companions Hiding in Your TBR 1:15:06
  6. The Books That Read You Back 1:32:08
  7. Kelly Jarvis on the Power of the Small 1:26:44
  8. Karla Sorensen on the Why of Characters, Writing Craft, and the Body of the Writer 1:38:02
  9. Your Body is Reading the Book Too 1:36:48
  10. Which Door Is Yours? 42:38
  11. Your Bookshelf Is Your Grimoire 41:54
  12. Sharon Lynn Fisher: Small Magic, Ancient Power 1:33:05
  13. Cassie Alexander: Getting Curious with the Monster 1:18:44
  14. When the world gets strange, desire becomes our compass 1:15:47
  15. Weaving the WYRD While Empires White-Knuckle Death 34:20
  16. Having your VISA Declined at the Threshold 1:38:55
  17. Breaking the Spell of Separation: A Celtic Shaman's Guide to Romancing Uncertainty 1:43:40
  18. The Bestiary of Unearthing 31:25
  19. What Story Are You Telling at the Threshold? 1:32:43
  20. When the Avalanche Reveals the Valley 1:02:30
  21. Walking to the Edge of Desire: My Husband Reads Romance 58:47
  22. Crossing the Threshold: On Liminality, Descent, and Becoming 1:15:40
  23. The Art of Falling in Love with the In‑Between 19:06