Merve Emre's Paradise Lost New Yorker piece, The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck, Harold's Gogol piece, DFW, Tristram Shandy.https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypodAv Sean Thor Conroe

Full ep and bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypodOn the Krasznahorkai event, Dead Souls by Gogol, the Cormac article, Blood Meridian, Matthias Enard, the Gospels, and the problem of American fiction.Av Sean Thor Conroe

From Ep 121 *bonus*: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypodOn Robert Walser, Hoderlin, Stoner by John Williams, Mike Tyson.Referenced novel at the end is Grande Sertao by João Guimarães Rosa, originally published in 1956, first translated in 1963 as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, and being retranslated by by Alison Entrekin as Vastlands: The Cross…

Painter Sedrick Chisom on growing up in Philly, Munch, America, and the history of Rome.Sedrick's new exhibit, The Villain of History for One Night Alone, up now at Pilar Corrias in London: https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/467-sedrick-chisom-the-villain-of-history-for-one-night-alone/My piece on Sedrick forthcoming from next issue of Family…

From episode 118 with Sedrick Chisom: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sedrick-chisom-113955340Art: George The Younger, The Lord of The Equestrian Short Kings, Trotted Around on a Stolen Blighted Cavalryman's Horse, Worked To the Bone During Miasmic asscrack Hours, 2022, by Sedrick Chisom.Sedrick's new exhibition, The Villain of History for One Night …

Bonus hour plus more: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypodHeavy Traffic V out now: https://heavytrafficmagazine.com/Av Sean Thor Conroe

Harold wrote about paradise lost: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/p/eve-is-the-devil-but-thats-goodFrom ep 116: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodAv Sean Thor Conroe

Full 2 hours 22 minutes on the Patreon.Av Sean Thor Conroe

Dispatch from Hershey / intro to new Sotce ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodAv Sean Thor Conroe

Clip from ep 113: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodSean and Harold discuss Vico's New Science (1744). Harold started a substack: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/Av Sean Thor Conroe

Ep 112 - Fan Fictions w/ Olivia Kan-Sperling: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112-fan-fictions-109775024?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkParis Review assistant editor and Island Time author Olivia Kan-Sperling on Sally Rooney, Chris Kraus, fan fiction, and this n+1 essay she wrote: htt…

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/company-we-keep-101792415Andrew's new story in this month's Harper's: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/08/lovefool-andrew-martin/Early Work: https://www.andrewmartinauthor.com/work/earlyworkFuccboi: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394918/…

Sean and Harold talk The Aeneid, Borges's Essays and Non-Fictions, The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus and Dante.Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodAv Sean Thor Conroe

Author of Tantrums and Ritual and Anatomy Courses (w/ Blake Butler) and foremost alt lit historian Sean Kilpatrick comes on the pod to talk literature.Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod |Sean Kilpatrick: https://anorexicchlorinesextoymuseum.blogspot.com/Intro song: '7 years' by T$: https://soundcloud.com/thomas55350/7-years…

Read the final draft: https://seanthorconroe.substack.com/p/on-sam-pink-scheming-and-slanderAv Sean Thor Conroe

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod |Event this Saturday, 7/13, in Philly: https://www.instagram.com/american_grammar/?hl=en |Tropicalia by Harold Rogers: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013878 |VIdeo clip: https://youtu.be/Jh3D0k16T90Av Sean Thor Conroe

Very rare free ep for Independence Day. Intro (14 min) on vulnerability, whether books should instruct, Dante.1 hour 33 min convo with Sotce on "selling out," materialism, internet hate.Sotce 1: https://soundcloud.com/1storypod/sotce-51524-1107-pm?si=394d8537a27745cb8bf06dbc805dd162&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing |…

Full 4-hour ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-first-pod-w-106641402?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkHonor Levy's first book MY FIRST BOOK out now.Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel FUCCBOI.Related: Ep. 58 with the late great editor and publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano (1/2021): https:/…

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodPart Two in Sean and Harold's Dante series.Harold's novel Tropicalia out in paperback Tuesday: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8SjgFVO1M5/?hl=en&img_index=1Av Sean Thor Conroe

Full 2 hours: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodGabriel Smith wrote Brat, out now from Penguin.Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.Av Sean Thor Conroe

Harold rants about Sally Rooney, courage, and La Batarde by Violette Leduc (1964, Dalkey): https://www.patreon.com/1storypodTropicalia out in paperback 6/25: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013885Sean Thor Conroe wrote Fuccboi.Av Sean Thor Conroe

Stephanie LaCava wrote Superrationals (Semiotexte, 2020), I Fear My Pain Interests You (Verso, 2022), and is the founder of Small Press.Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodStephanie: https://www.instagram.com/stephanielacava/Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/?hl=enIntro song by Thomas Thatcher:…

Part one of 2.5 hour podcast with Sotce on The Jataka Tales: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodSotce is a spiritual influencer and writer and artist: https://www.instagram.com/sotce/Sean Thor Conroe is an American writer: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/Av Sean Thor Conroe

Why is Odysseus in Hell?From Patreon Ascension Sunday ep on Dante's Inferno, Vita Nuova by Dante, Dante: Poet of the Secular World (1929) by Erich Auerbach, and The Obscene Bird of the Night (1973) by Jose Donoso.https://www.patreon.com/posts/im-like-dante-fr-104208398?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm…

Solar eclipse eve (April 7) centennial ep with Harold on The Sound and the Fury, Madame Bovary, the Book of Samuel and the Gospels.Intro correction: Faulkner was born 1897, not 1899.Read Tropicalia, which Rivka Galchen called "Intense, tender, and wise": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013878Fuccboi: https://w…

Full 1 hr 44 min phone pod w/ Little Tank, formerly known as Savage Chkild (cf. pp 103-107 of Fuccboi): https://www.patreon.com/posts/99-greedy-love-w-102304701?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link |Little Tank is the author, most recently, of Russian Summer."Misanthropy comes of an all …

Andrew Martin (Early Work, Cool For America) and Sean Thor Conroe on Mary McCarthy's 1942 novel The Company She Keeps.Video: https://youtu.be/0ZSj8HaaoK8 |Bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/posts/company-we-keep-101792415?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link |Mary McCarthy essay: https:…

Zac Smith and Sean Thor Conroe discuss Zac's book Everything Is Totally Fine (Muumuu House, 2022). Video: https://youtu.be/T3fq2DNPLiMPart 2 (audio & video): https://www.patreon.com/1storypodEverything is Totally Fine: https://muumuuhouse.com/zacsmith.htmlIntro song: '7 years' by Thomas Thatcher: https://soundcloud.com/thomas55350/7-years?in=thomas…

Harold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe on Mathias Enard's novels: Zone (2008), Compass (2015), and The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild (2021). Video: https://youtu.be/cED8XUaQ_lwPart 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/gravediggers-w-100391153?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link…

Author and Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly and Sean Thor Conroe discuss addiction, Geoff’s book Someone Who Isn’t Me (2023), recovery, and whether or not they are Hitler/the devil.Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwH9454ajsg |Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/harsh-w-geoff-pt-99940174?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campa…

With art and culture writer Dean Kissick on The Map and the Territory (2010). From the evening of February 26, 2024, Houellebecq's 68th birthday (unintentionally), happy birthday Houellebecq.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US62aRuKD3E | patreon.com/1storypodAv Sean Thor Conroe

Solo walking pod to and around the pond in central park on the Gospels, Alphabetical Diaries, and The Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger's Guild.https://www.patreon.com/posts/alphabetical-2-98982729?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkAv Sean Thor Conroe

Ep. 91 - This Podcast is a Gun. With Liver Mush (2021) and I Have A Gun (3/2024) author Graham Irvin.FULL 2 HRS: https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-podcast-is-97758663?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkLiver Mush: https://backpatiopress.bigcartel.com/product/liver-mush-by-graham-irvin-…

Solo walking pod along the east river on 1.21.24 at 4:44 pm.FULL HOUR: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pluto-in-solo-96947744Pluto in Aquarius (0:00); X-R-A-Y Magazine (10:00); “Smoking a cig and day drinking in the park” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6uv7Fpo727U&t=925s (15:55); the Podcast isn’t dead / blurbs (27:22); galleys (29:00).…

Literature discussion with Harold Rogers (author of Tropicalia) and Sean Thor Conroe (Fuccboi) on The Third Reich (1989) by Bolaño (00:14), St. Thomas Aquinas (7 min), Father Antonio Vieira (12 min), Katt Williams (17 min), Septology by Jon Fosse (27 min), Agora Agora (89 chapters - 31 min), The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer (33 min), and…

Full hour: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88-nye-bonus-day-95604677?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkPossibly my favorite podcast ep ever. With Harold Rogers. Read his novel Tropicalia. Works/writers mentioned: Grimmish by Michael Winkler, Simone Weil, The Possibility of an Island, Mul…

Intro on grief and truth and the origins of Gian's piece (~16 min).The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bgo115IikVice piece Gian mentions: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5gqymd/how-psychedelics-helped-me-deal-with-excruciating-cluster-headachesGian's writing on Vice (2009-2016): https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/giancarlo-ditrapanoSean T…

At the Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts reading in New York City on 14 November 2023.0:44 - “Antirelationship Period”2:25 - “Meditation”4:09 - “Mending”5:00 - “Meditation 2”6:07 - “Wild Animals”Intro by Jordan Castro, recorded by Sean Thor Conroe.Av Sean Thor Conroe

October 2023 full moon eclipse pod with Harold Rogers on the library, monasticism, King Lear, Miss Macintosh My Darling, Mary Gaitskill, Alexander Theroux, McClanahan, Zbigniew Herbert, Mathias Enard, epigraphs, cynicism, and what Literature is. With Tropicalia author Harold Rogers. YouTube: https://youtu.be/leNmw2kTlEsFull 2-hour ep: https://www.p…

From paywalled Oct 2023 new moon eclipse video ep "Confessions" w/ Harold Rogers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/confessions-w-92292166?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkFirst Love by Gwendoline Riley: https://www.amazon.com/First-Love-Gwendoline-Riley/dp/1612196268Harold Rogers wrote T…

Full hourlong video ep "Confessions" with Harold Rogers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/confessions-w-92292166On our own books, literary confession, diary writing, Gilbert Sorrentino, Gwendoline Riley, Jack Houghteling, Drake, Borges, Alphabetical Diaries, and Andrew Martin.Tropicalia by Harold Rogers: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic%C3%A1lia-Novel-Ha…

"ODB, the Mud Puppy, and Me," from Scott McClanahan's first book Stories (2008): https://www.amazon.com/Stories-scott-mcclanahan/dp/0981009123?ref_=ast_author_dpFrom 10.27.23 eclipse pod w Harold: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodAv Sean Thor Conroe

Babak Lakghomi, author of Floating Notes (Tyrant, 2018) and South (Dundern, 2023), on working with the late great Giancarlo DiTrapano, David Markson, fragments, friction, literature as a revolutionary act, Proust, and autofiction.1 min - on working with Gian / Tyrant6 min - on South (Dundern Press)7 min - on David Markson 8 min - fragments9 min - a…

Spoke on some shit. With New Millennium Boyz (2023) author Alex Kazemi. Full moon in Aries. -STCwww.alexkazemi.comhttps://1storyhaus.com/1stories.htmlAv Sean Thor Conroe

Ep. 80: With philosopher, author, and Auerbach scholar Matthias Bormuth (b.1963), a professor of Comparative Intellectual History at University of Oldenburg. On Erich Auerbach's MIMESIS: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946), and how it was influenced by the great Neapolitan thinker Giambattista Vico's NEW SCIENCE (1744).I firs…

On Franny and Zooey, Crime and Punishment, Nine Stories, Brothers Karamazov, Absalom, Absalom and the Gospels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFv_OUiwdM4Notes: Sean on Salinger, Crime & Punishment (0:55); referenced Salinger essay https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/06/christ-like-holden-caulfield (4:55); Mary & Martha (11:55); Harold on CBS …

From 11/22. On reactionary Literature in a sort of timeless way, so figured I'd leak it. Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nazi-literature-88342741?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkAv Sean Thor Conroe

NYC — My dad, 66, is an English teacher at a Waldorf school in Japan. This pod happened during our first in-person meeting in four years. On expatriation, self awareness, Dasein, existentialism, Rudolf Steiner, and the mission of America.Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi (2022).Av Sean Thor Conroe

NYC - Harold Rogers, 26, is a standup, boxing coach, and novelist. He is the author of Tropicalia (2023), out now from Atria: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic%C3%A1lia-Novel-Harold-Rogers/dp/1668013878/ref=monarch_sidesheetSean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi (2022): https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912/ref=tmm_pap_…

NYC — Sam Lipsyte is the author of Venus Drive (2000), The Subject Steve (2001), Homeland (2004), The Ask (2010), The Fun Parts (2013), Hark (2019), Friend of the Pod (2022) and No One Left to Come Looking For You (2022).Av Sean Thor Conroe