Join Black Mountain Institute on Saturday, Sept. 20 at the Beverly Theater for a live-taping of the Thresholds podcast. In this event, host and former BMI fellow Jordan Kisner will sit down with writer Jayson Greene, the author of the acclaimed literary science fiction novel UnWorld. The event is free, open to the public, and will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Greene's newest novel, Once More We Saw Stars, is about four intertwined lives that collide in the wake of a mysterious tragedy. Set in a near-future world where the boundaries between human and AI blur, the story challenges our understanding of consciousness and humanity.

Jayson Greene is the author of Once More We Saw Stars and a contributing writer and former senior editor at Pitchfork. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son. UnWorld is his first novel.

Jordan Kisner‘s writing has appeared in n+1, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, GQ, The Guardian, The American Scholar, California Sunday, The New Yorker, The New Republic, New York magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, and Pitchfork, among other publications. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize and was selected for The Best American Essays 2016. The author of Thin Places: Essays from In Between, she teaches creative writing at Columbia University.

Parking/getting there: The Beverly Theater is located next to The Writer’s Block at 515 S 6th St, Las Vegas, NV 89101. Street parking is available off Bonneville between 6th and 10th. For additional information about parking/getting to The Beverly Theater, please visit the theater's website.