Shows
1storypodJapan, Part 2 by Sean Thor ConroeRead along: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-2-sean-thor-conroe?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Part 1: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-1-funeral-family-travel-history?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false2025-06-2035 min
Canal Street DreamsThe Sean Thore Conroe Interview on Canal Street Dreams *FREE SUBSTACK PREVIEW*Sean Thor Conroe—author of Fuccboi and certified voice of the disaffected, deadpan millennial male—slides through the pod to talk about the semi-fictional mythmaking behind his debut novel. We talk writing process, favorite modern authors, and what it means to stay based in a world that’s always tweaking. For the full episode, click over to Canal Street Dreams on Substack and become a paid subscriber! https://open.substack.com/pub/basedfob?r=pkeuk&utm_medium=ios2025-05-3028 min
1storypodHarold read SchattenfrohSean returned from Japan, Harold read Schattenfroh (Deep Vellum, August 2025) by Michael Lentz, tr. Max Lawton. Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod2025-05-0625 min
1storypod134. Mating (first 11:44)On whether art is inherently harmful or good for thdse world, Mishima and the value of going to war, Harold on Mating by Norman Rush, and which books Sean is bringing to Japan. Join the paytch for free to listen -->
https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod2025-04-1011 min
1storypod132. The New Mythic Method w/ Al Jacobs *preview*132. The New Mythic Method w/ Al Jacobs *preview* by Sean Thor Conroe2025-03-2423 min
1storypod131. Sacred Grove with Eric ConroeOn Ezra Pound, tree girls in Ovid, Eric's writing on dance and Sean's three part Circe-Persephone-Eve essay. Recorded on full moon 3.13.25 in the yurt.
Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/131-sacred-grove-124605152?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link |
Eric: https://substack.com/@ericconroewriting |
Referenced essay: https://seanthorconroe.substack.com/p/circe-persephone-eve-part-one2025-03-181h 08
1storypod128. Pod of Myself w/ Will Mountain CoxSean and Harold are joined by Will Mountain Cox, author of Roundabout (Relegation, 2023). They do a deep dive on Walt Whitman, the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, Harold Bloom on Hamlet, Will's history with Giancarlo DiTrapano, and why America and podcasting is gnostic.
Bonus hour and more on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
Intro song by Thomas Thatcher.2025-02-111h 10
1storypod127. Brutalist sentimentalismOn Sean's NYT blackout in the Heavy Traffic reading write up, Sam Kriss's Fuccboi takedown, Ulysses, Hamlet, Harold's new short story, and the new movement—Baroque Brutalist Sentimentalism.
Bonus hour and video: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
Harold's story: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/p/i-won
Sean's audio goes a bit quiet 6-14 minutes, he got too excited ranting and pulled the plug, but it comes back.2025-02-011h 02
1storypod125. Men at Work (Tristram Shandy)Harold read Tristram Shandy, Sean reads from The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. Also on Whitman, Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, and writing as a priestlike vocation.
https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod2025-01-0611 min
1storypodSedrick Chisom Interview *unlocked*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 Style: My piece on Sedrick is forthcoming from the next issue of Family Style: https://www.family.style/
Intro song by Thomas Thatcher
Sedrick Chisom: https://www.instagram.com/sedrickchisom/
Sean Thor Conroe: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/2024-11-221h 18
1storypod113. Storms...Clip from ep 113: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
Sean and Harold discuss Vico's New Science (1744).
Harold started a substack: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/2024-08-2305 min
1storypodAndrew Martin on Lorin Stein, Backlash, Why I'm So Hated (pause)Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/company-we-keep-101792415
Andrew'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/earlywork
Fuccboi: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394918/2024-08-0610 min
1storypod111. Cold Visions w/ Harold RogersSean 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/1storypod2024-07-281h 02
1storypod110. Tantrums w/ Sean KilpatrickAuthor 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-years2024-07-1818 min
1storypod108. Sotce 3 (w/ intro)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 |
Sotce 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jataka-tales-2-w-104516283?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link |
Sotce: https://www.instagram.com/sotce/ |
Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.2024-07-041h 46
1storypod107. Honor Levy (first 30 min)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_link
Honor 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://open.spotify.com/episode/6NIzbaE5bwYJ4qv6NpILaT?si=c5849b0c0b23417c2024-06-2431 min
1storypod106. I'm Like Dante Fr, Part 2 *clip*Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
Part 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=12024-06-1805 min
1storypod105. Yung Bratz w/ Gabriel Smith (first hour)Full 2 hours: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
Gabriel Smith wrote Brat, out now from Penguin.
Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.2024-06-111h 00
1storypod104. The Bastard w/ Harold RogersHarold rants about Sally Rooney, courage, and La Batarde by Violette Leduc (1964, Dalkey): https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
Tropicalia out in paperback 6/25: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013885
Sean Thor Conroe wrote Fuccboi.2024-06-0612 min
1storypod103. Stephanie LaCava (first 33 min)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/1storypod
Stephanie: https://www.instagram.com/stephanielacava/
Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/?hl=en
Intro song by Thomas Thatcher: https://soundcloud.com/thomas55350/tryna-get-right-for-minute-prod-atm2024-06-0133 min
Clout FarmEpisode 20: "FAKE LIT" feat. Sean Thor Conroe *FULL EPISODE ON PATREON*It is a conversation with author and walking man Sean Thor Conroe, an individual who used his mind to write the book ‘Fuccboi’, among other texts.Sean pulled up to the temporary CF HQ in New York City. What followed was a deep azz conversation about Harry Potter, World Cup ’98, his aborted rap career, baes n bois, Houllebecq, Proust, Drake vs. Kendrick, loud, cello exams, and other matters of big picture significance. Do NOT listen if you are an illiterate simpleton!!Full ep: patreon.com/CloutFarmPatreon: CloutFarmIG: @cloutfarmpod2024-05-2123 min
1storypod102. Jataka Tales w/ SotcePart one of 2.5 hour podcast with Sotce on The Jataka Tales: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
Sotce 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/2024-05-2036 min
1storypod100. Solar Eclipse Faulkner Pod w/ Harold RogersSolar 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/9781668013878
Fuccboi: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394918/
Intro song by Thomas Thatcher: https://soundcloud.com/thomas55350/tryna-get-right-for-minute-prod-atm2024-04-231h 11
1storypod98. The Company We Keep w/ Andrew MartinAndrew 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://www.triangle.house/blog/revisit-kyra-baldwin-on-the-company-she-keeps2024-04-051h 25
1storypod96. Everything is Totally Fine w/ Zac SmithZac Smith and Sean Thor Conroe discuss Zac's book Everything Is Totally Fine (Muumuu House, 2022).
Video: https://youtu.be/T3fq2DNPLiM
Part 2 (audio & video): https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
Everything is Totally Fine: https://muumuuhouse.com/zacsmith.html
Intro song: '7 years' by Thomas Thatcher: https://soundcloud.com/thomas55350/7-years?in=thomas55350/sets/my-heart-swims-in-blood&si=32b1b41b157e4dcdafc9142db452be98&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing2024-03-211h 32
Lo Fi LitSean Thor ConroeSean came on the show . He wrote Fuccboi2024-03-192h 01
1storypod95. Harold Rogers on Mathias Enard (Zone, Compass, Gravediggers)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_lw
Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/gravediggers-w-100391153?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link2024-03-151h 38
1storypod94. Harsh Grandfather w/ Geoff RicklyAuthor 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_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link |
Someone Who Isn’t Me: https://asterismbooks.com/product/someone-who-isnt-me-geoff-rickly |
Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912 |2024-03-0751 min
1storypod91. Graham IrvinEp. 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_link
Liver Mush: https://backpatiopress.bigcartel.com/product/liver-mush-by-graham-irvin-pre-order
I Have A Gun (preorder): https://rejectionletters.bigcartel.com/product/i-have-a-gun-by-graham-irvin
Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd0PZrscNZo
Intro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h0rQ9J3JU4&list=PPSV
Referenced Fosse essay: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/01/25/the-darkest-week-of-the-year-fosses-septology/2024-02-041h 05
The Paris ReviewThe Walk BookSean Thor Conroe shares entries from “The Walk Book”—his meticulous, funny travelogue about his 2014 attempt to walk across the United States—including some rain-soaked field recordings.
This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was sound-designed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
Additional Links:
theparisreview.org/letters-essays/8039/the-walk-book-sean-thor-conroe
Subscribe to the Paris Review2024-01-2417 min
1storypod89. Magic Girdle w/ Harold RogersLiterature 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 Franzen (48 min).
youtube: https://youtu.be/NOCRpjBlMIo
Tropicalia: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013878
Fuccboi: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394918/2024-01-151h 03
1storypodThe Renaissance After the Plague by Giancarlo DiTrapano (reading) + intro on GriefIntro on grief and truth and the origins of Gian's piece (~16 min).
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bgo115Iik
Vice piece Gian mentions: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5gqymd/how-psychedelics-helped-me-deal-with-excruciating-cluster-headaches
Gian's writing on Vice (2009-2016): https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/giancarlo-ditrapano
Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi.2023-12-0622 min
1storypodTao Lin reading 5 poems at the Russian Samovar [11.14.23]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.2023-11-1807 min
1storypod84. October Full Moon Pod with Harold RogersOctober 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/leNmw2kTlEs
Full 2-hour ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
TROPICALIA: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013878
Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel FUCCBOI.2023-11-141h 09
1storypodFirst Love (2017) by Gwendoline RileyFrom 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_link
First Love by Gwendoline Riley: https://www.amazon.com/First-Love-Gwendoline-Riley/dp/1612196268
Harold Rogers wrote Tropicalia: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic%C3%A1lia-Novel-Harold-Rogers/dp/1668013878
Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi.2023-11-0602 min
1storypod79. I'm Like Salinger Fr w/ Harold RogersOn Franny and Zooey, Crime and Punishment, Nine Stories, Brothers Karamazov, Absalom, Absalom and the Gospels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFv_OUiwdM4
Notes: 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsdlLK7grNg (17:17); Harold on Karamazov (20:22); Harold ran back Absalom (39:39)2023-09-031h 23
1storypod77. My DadNYC — 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).2023-08-1700 min
1storypod76. Harold Rogers on TROPICÁLIA (2023)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_sidesheet
Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi (2022): https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=2023-08-071h 14
Cracks in PostmodernityFuccboi RevisitedAfter long await, Sean Thor Conroe joins the pod to discuss his debut novel Fuccboi, masculinity, Nietzsche, and much more.
You can pick up a copy of the novel here. And check out my review in City Journal here. Stay tuned for my long form essay on “bootstrapping” coming out in Hedgehog Review next Spring.
Follow Sean @seanthorconroe
To order a copy of the cracks in pomo zine or to make a contribution, DM @cracksinpomo. $upport CracksInPomo by clicking on this link. And follow CracksInPomo on Substack, Instagram, and Twitter.
2023-07-231h 35
1storypodMegan Nolan on Acts of Desperation (2021) *CLIP*Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
Megan Nolan and Sean Thor Conroe on their respective novels Acts of Desperation (2021) and Fuccboi (2022).2022-12-1911 min
Weird EraEpisode 47: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Sean Thor ConroeAbout Sean Thor Conroe:
Sean Thor Conroe is a Japanese-American writer. He was born in Tokyo in 1991 and was raised in Scotland, upstate New York, and the greater Bay Area. He studied literature and philosophy at Swarthmore College, and attended the Columbia University School of the Arts. He has guest edited New York Tyrant Magazine and hosts the book podcast 1storypod.
About Fuccboi:
A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying new voice.
Set in Philly one year into Trump’s presidency, Sean Thor Conroe’s au...2022-09-0947 min
Salt Lake DirtSean Thor Conroe - FUCCBOI - Episode 70Today on Salt Lake Dirt I welcome Sean Thor Conroe. His novel Fuccboi was released this past January on Little Brown. Laura Albert first recommended Fuccboi to me. She always sends me books that I fall in love with. Fuccboi was an interesting read for me. It took me longer than normal to finish. I took my time with it. After I finished it, the book wouldn't seem to leave my consciousness and I thought about it frequently. I was excited to have some space between finishing Fuccboi and actually talking to Sean. I think it made for a...2022-09-0654 min
1storypod71: Paul Dalla RosaNYC — Paul Dalla Rosa is a 30-year-old writer from Melbourne, Australia. His first book, a short story collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (2022), is out now. The title story, "The Hard Thing," that we reference in the convo, was initially published on New York Tyrant. Paul is a graduate of Mors Tua Vita Mea, the writing workshop Chelsea Hodson ran with my former editor, the late Giancarlo DiTrapano.
Alternate/written version of this convo: https://pauldallarosa.substack.com/
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (2022): https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781800810129?gC=ad0234829&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrdaF3YXt-QIVmwsrCh11mgqmEAQYASABEgLKK_D_BwE
"The Ha...2022-08-311h 21
1storypod70: Tao LinNYC / HAWAII — Tao Lin is the author of Leave Society (2021), Trip (2018), Taipei (2013), and other books. For this episode, I read The Chalice and the Blade (1987), a nonfiction book by Riane Eisler that Tao references in Leave Society. We talk about autism, leaky gut, organ meats, liver king, lashing out on friends, and whether partnership societies had MMA. Leave Society dropped 1 year ago today: https://www.amazon.com/Leave-Society-Vintage-Contemporaries-Tao/dp/1101974478
Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi: A Novel (2022).2022-08-031h 201storypodTao Lin on The Chalice and the Blade (1987) *CLIP*Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/liver-kings-w-69859428?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator
NYC/HAWAII — Leave Society (2021), Trip (2018), and Taipei (2013) author Tao Lin on The Chalice and the Blade (1987), liver king, partnership vs. dominator societies, Jesus, awe, wonder, and whether partnership societies had mma.
Ep. 70 w/ Tao Lin
6 min - Tao on Organ meats / liver king
9 min - our diets
12 min - on Awe
22 min - on Jesus
24 min - on God
38 - partnership ways to express power
39 - did partnership societies have mma
49 - on lashing out on friends
55 - nature worship
58 - wr...2022-08-0109 min
1storypod68: Miles Lagoze on COMBAT OBSCURA (2019)INWOOD — Miles Lagoze is a writer, director, and U.S. Marine veteran. He served as combat camera from 2008–2013. He is the director of Combat Obscura (2019), a documentary about his time out in Afghanistan, and the author of a forthcoming book, out next year.
Combat Obscura trailer: https://youtu.be/pkaTGGwwvSI
Book excerpt: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11/18/dreams-in-first-person-shooter/
Pod contents:
0 min - Die4Guy playboi carti
3 min - His time in Okinawa / K2.
7 min - Almost Transparent Blue (1976) by Ryū Murakami.
10 min - Why Miles enlisted.
14 min - War movies.
19 min - Why we were in the middle east.
22 min - Inc...2022-06-1358 min
1storypod66: Rob DoyleBERLIN / NYC — Rob Doyle, author of Threshold (2020), Autobibliography (2021), Here Are The Young Men (2014) and This Is the Ritual (2016) on travel, life in Berlin, Bolaño, Kerouac, publishing, Nietzsche, and quitting drinking.
Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi (2022).2022-05-231h 17
1storypod65: Jake Hanrahan on GARGOYLE (2021)EAST MIDLANDS / NYC — Jake Hanrahan is a conflict reporter and journalist from East Midlands, England. He hosts the war podcast Popular Front. He is the author of Gargoyle (2021), a collection of his essays. He’s a fucking real one.
GARGOYLE: Reporting from frontlines, jail cells, and trap houses: https://www.amazon.com/Gargoyle-Reporting-frontlines-cells-houses/dp/B092PG6K13
POPULAR FRONT: https://www.patreon.com/popularfront/posts
3 min - on Ukraine / Hoods Hoods Clan.
8 min - on Fuccboi.
14 min - on the Kazinskiite pine tree community from Gargoyle (2021).
19 min - on Combat Obscura.
23 min - shitty labor jobs.
29 min - anti-snobbery media.
32 min...2022-05-121h 30
1storypod64: Bud Smith on TEENAGER (2022)JERSEY CITY / NYC — Bud Smith is the author of Teenager, out now from Vintage. He is also the author of Double Bird (2018), Work (2017), Calm Face (2016), F250 (2014), and Tollbooth (2013), among other books. He is also a good friend. This convo is from 9 May 2022, 2 nights ago, the night before his novel Teenager dropped. Bless.
TEENAGER: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/679124/teenager-by-bud-smith/
1 min - pod start
5 min - “the New Jersey devil”
9 min - Don Quixote / picaresque
24 min - should novels be educational
28 min - “reading as prayer/meditation”
30 min - on working on Teenager w Gian
57 min - on how Teenager ended up where i...2022-05-111h 57
Cookies: A Basketball PodcastFboi Island: Cookies 346 with Sean Thor ConroeNew eps drop first on our Patreon. Sean Thor Conroe, author of "Fuccboi," joins Cookies Hoops to discuss pickup ball (2:55), Mayor Adams getting covid (10:52), dealing with literary criticism (15:01), having an imposter on the Red Scare Reddit (18:32), meeting Lil B and Jeremy Lin (26:44), the etymology of "fuccboi" (36:22), Ben Simmons mutual aid (43:58), Sixers vs Raptors (1:14:44), and playoff predictions (1:22:44).2022-04-281h 28
Bookin’181--Bookin’ w/ Sean Thor ConroeThis week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Sean Thor Conroe, author of Fuccboi, which is published by our friends at Little, Brown. Topics of conversation include the line between fiction and memoir, slang, Scott McClanahan, The Wire, Roberto Bolaño, Lil B, wokeness, the politicization of art, and much more. Copies of Fuccboi can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.
2022-04-2534 min
How Long Gone309. - Sean Thor ConroeSean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi, a novel out now. We chat with him from his home in New York about a new way to smoke less, quitting bicycle riding when you get rich, walking across the country in flip flops, some of Sean’s favorite author’s bars (not where you drink,) people’s perceptions of his book, if people read it to relate or to observe, how the word Fuccboi has evolved, you’re a bitch if you don’t use your real name, sometimes a book can be fun, his unique editing process, how the mind o...2022-03-041h 02
Let Free Audiobook Transport You to New WorldsFuccboi: A Novel Audiobook by Sean Thor ConroeListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 522891
Title: Fuccboi: A Novel
Author: Sean Thor Conroe
Narrator: Sean Thor Conroe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:25:07
Language: English
Release date: 01-25-22
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Asian American Literature
Summary:
“Got under my skin in the way the best writing can.” —Sheila Heti
A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying new voice.
Set in Philly one year into Trump’s presidency, Sean Thor Conroe’s audacious, freewheeling debut follows our eponymous fuccboi, Sean, as he atte...2022-01-257h 25
Headline BooksFUCCBOI written and read by Sean Thor Conroe - audiobook extractA fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism, from an electrifying new voice.
Set in Philly one year into Trump's presidency, Sean Thor Conroe's audacious, freewheeling debut follows our eponymous f--cboi, Sean, as he attempts to live meaningfully in a world that doesn't seem to need him. Reconciling past, failed selves - cross-country walker, SoundCloud rapper, weed farmer - he now finds himself back in his college city, trying to write, doing stimulant-fuelled bike deliveries to eat. Unable to accept that his ex has dropped him, yet still engaged in all the same f--kery - being coy...2021-12-2208 min
Wet Brain*PREVIEW* Don't Based Me Bro w/ Thatcher Keats, Andrew Meyer (Don't Taze Me Bro Guy) and Sean Thor Conroefor the Full Awesome episode Please support us at Patreon.com/wetbrain
Sound artist, underground radio legend, Thatcher Keats, on pirate radio, generational understanding gaps and deer hunting. The Andrew Meyer of Don’t Taze Me Bro early Internet viral fame on what it’s like to be a meme, what’s happening to America, demons, globalist agendas and Kabbalah. Author Sean Thor Conroe on his upcoming debut novel Fuccboi, literary beef, Bolano, The Femicide Machine and drinking juice. We also make some beats have a little beef.2021-11-0213 min
1storypod61: Brad Phillips on ESSAYS AND FICTIONS (2018)TORONTO / NYC — Brad Phillips is a writer and artist from Toronto. He is the author of Essays and Fictions (Tyrant, 2018). I enjoyed this book a lot. I felt it was courageous, funny, intimate, deceptively sweet, and formally inventive. Here is a link to the book: https://www.nytyrant.com/products/essays-and-fictions-by-brad-phillips . Here is a link to the recent story he published on Muumuu House that we reference: http://muumuuhouse.com/bp.03feb2021.html . Here is a link to a NYT thing shouting out his instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brad___phillips/?hl=en ): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/design/artists-instagram-coronavirus.ht...2021-03-241h 09
1storypod59: Sheila HetiTORONTO / NYC — Sheila Heti is the author of the short story collection the Middle Stories (2001), the short novel Ticknor (2005), the philosophy book the Chairs Are Where The People Go (2011), co-written by Misha Glouberman, How Should A Person Be? (2012), and Motherhood (2018). She also co-edited the collection Women in Clothes (2014). And wrote the intro to the new release of this Virginia Woolf essay, How Should One Read A Book? (2020). Her next book, Pure Colour, is coming out in January 2022. I first encountered Sheila’s writing in late 2014, when I tore through How Should A Person Be? in a night. I’ve since done a...2021-01-171h 35
1storypod58: Gian DiTrapano on NY TYRANT (since 2005)NAPLES — Giancarlo DiTrapano is the founder, editor, and publisher of New York Tyrant. The magazine initially, starting in 2005. And then of Tyrant Books, starting in 2010. I spoke with him in his apartment in Naples two days ago, before flying back to the states yesterday. After flying out there 11 days ago. He wrote for Vice for a minute during the early tens and has ran the workshop Mors Tua Vita Mea, with the writer Chelsea Hodson, in Sezze, Italy since 2015. He grew up in Charleston, West Virginia and spent many years in New York City before moving out to Italy five ye...2021-01-071h 42
1storypod56: Nicolette Polek on IMAGINARY MUSEUMS (2020)DMV / NYC — Nicolette Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) is her first book. I saw Nicolette read from this collection a couple times early this year, and reread it a couple times this past fortnight.
Buy Imaginary Museums: https://softskull.com/dd-product/imaginary-museums/
POD CONTENTS
3 min - pod start
4 min - small rooms big rooms card rooms basements
11 min - on “Winners” - https://magazine.nytyrant.com/winners/
14 min - on how life in Slovakia vs. US
19 min - “Field Notes” / Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
21 min - Krasznahorkai
24 min - on the traditions...2020-12-031h 00
1storypod54: Allie Rowbottom on JELL-O GIRLS (2018)SILVER LAKE / HARLEM — Allie Rowbottom is the author of Jell-O Girls (Little Brown, 2018). She recently wrote this story in Hobart: https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/auralift She teaches writing classes for Catapult and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey.
Buy her book: http://www.allierowbottom.com
POD CONTENTS:
3 min - pod start
6 min - how jell-o girls written thru reading her mom’s writing
10 min - on the blend of her / her mom’s pov .. influences
11 min - Jane (2005) by Maggie Nelson
15 min - speaking oneself into selfhood / marketing of the book
20 min - on shar...2020-11-011h 05
1storypod52: Chelsea Hodson on TONIGHT I'M SOMEONE ELSE (2018)NYC — Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else (2018) and the chapbook Pity the Animal (2014). She teaches at the Bennington MFA program and at the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Italy and also does private writing consultations. We met at a reading back in December in Bushwick. I read her book a couple times over the past couple months.
Her book: https://www.amazon.com/Tonight-Im-Someone-Else-Essays/dp/1250170192
Pod Contents:
3 min - pod start
5 min - Work
7 min - never defining oneself as a single thing / multiplicity
10 min - presentation / performance / moon stuff
14 min - re...2020-10-111h 02
1storypod50: Scott McClanahanNYC / WV — Scott McClanahan (b. 1978) is the author of eight book: Stories (2008), Stories II (2009), Stories V! (2011), The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1 (2012), Crapalachia (2013, Two Dollar Radio), Hill William (2013, Tyrant Books), The Incantations of Daniel Johnston (2016, Two Dollar Radio), and The Sarah Book (2017, Tyrant Books), which NPR called "brave, triumphant and beautiful." It is. They also said "it reads like a fever dream, and it feels like a miracle." It fkn does. https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pre-order-the-sarah-book-by-scott-mcclanahan
Sarah Book excerpt (2017): http://magazine.nytyrant.com/excerpt-sarah-book/
Scott also co-founded the press Holler Presents.
Very grateful to Scott for a taking a...2020-07-311h 05
1storypod49: Nicola Maye Goldberg on NOTHING CAN HURT YOU (2020)UPSTATE NY/HARLEM — Nicola Maye Goldberg is the author of the novella Other Women (Sad Spell, 2016), the chapbook The Doll Factory (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), and, most recently, the novel Nothing Can Hurt You (Bloomsbury, 2020). Cop here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/nothing-can-hurt-you-9781635574890/
Or here: https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Hurt-Nicola-Maye-Goldberg/dp/1635574889
Nicola: https://www.nicolamaye.com/
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POD CONTENTS:
3 min - pod start
6 min - Nicola mighta started the rona
9 min - ‘all novelists are failed poets’
13 min - NCHY’s structure
18 min - on how related to 2666
21 min - on Tracy
25 min - on the Girl Boss trope / the commodification of Me Too
3...2020-07-091h 07
1storypod48: Jordan Castro 2 (today) on The Reflective Age, Indecision, Authority, and Last Week's PETS PodCOLLEGE PARK–HARLEM — Summer solstice sit down with Jordan Castro, editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and Pets: An Anthology, recently out from Tyrant Books. He is the author of Young Americans (CCM 2013) and if I really wanted to feel happy I’d feel happy already (CCM 2014). Recorded today, reflecting on our convo recorded one week ago on Pets (2020) and The Present [Reflective] Age (1843, Tr. Walter Kaufmann) by Kierkegaard. Last week's stab was solid but had to run it back one time, really rip it. Do yourself a solid a cop PETS, it's a banger. https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets
R...2020-06-211h 58
1storypod47: Jordan Castro 1 (6.14.20) on PETS (2020) and THE PRESENT AGE (1843) by KierkegaardCOLLEGE PARK–HARLEM — Jordan Castro is the editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and PETS: An Anthology, recently out from Tyrant Books https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets . I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Writers included are Patty Yumi Cottrell, Tao Lin, Ann Beattie, Sarah Manguso, Scott McClanahan, Kathryn Scanlan, Nicolette Polek, Chelsea Hodson, Blake Butler, Precious Okoyomon, Mark Leidner, Sam Pink, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, David Nutt, Reagan Bird, Michael W. Clune, Christine Schutt and Mallory Whitten. I recommend it for anyone who has or had or wants pets.
Cop PETS now !! – https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets
http://1storyhaus.com2020-06-211h 32
1storypod46: Sam Pink on THE ICE CREAM MAN (2020) and Early Stuff (2020)NYC-MICHIGAN — Sam Pink is the author of the novels Person (2010), The No Hellos Diet (2011), Rontel (2013), Witch Piss (2014), Garbage Times / White Ibis (Soft Skull, 2018), and the collections Ice Cream Man and Other Stories (Soft Skull, 2020), Early Stuff (11:11, 2020)—which includes his 2009 debut I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It—and 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You or Create the Problems You Need (Clash, 2019), among others. He slangs his paintings and early books via IG dm @sam_pink_art, holler at him.
I first encountered Sam Pink’s writing in 2017, when the homie Tren aka Based MTN recom...2020-05-0800 min1storypod45: Big Bruiser Dope Boy on Life in the Time of Rona (2020) plus an Easter rant I did [03.20]NYC-WISCONSIN — Big Bruiser Dope Boy is the author of Your First Real Boyfriend & Other Poems and Foghorn Leghorn (2018) from Clash Books and After Denver (2020) forthcoming from 11:11 Press later this year.
Bruiser and I started corresponding in advance of the trip he was planning to make out to New York City with Sam Pink for the release of Pink's new book, Ice Cream Man and Other Stories (Soft Skull), before that shit got postponed due to the rona.
Cop Bruiser's book: https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/big-bruiser-dope-boy-foghorn-leghorn
Big Bruiser's writing: https://neutralspaces.co/bigbruiserdopeboy/
'The Goonifesto' by BBDB: http://gaydeathtrance.ne...2020-04-1700 min
1storypod44: Andrew Weatherhead on $50,000 (2020) and on Wittgenstein also sortaNYC — Andrew Weatherhead was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of $50,000 (2020), Todd (2018) and Cats & Dogs (2014). He began writing $50,000 in 2015. I read $50,000 probably four times, each time in a single sitting, over the past fortnight since its release.
Purchase $50,000 from Publishing Genius: https://www.publishinggenius.com/product/50000/
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POD CONTENTS
3 min - pod start
6 min - comin in hot w wittgenstein tractatus bars/the inadequacy/importance/absurdity of language
11 min - on Facts/‘fake news’
17 min - on the title, $50,000
21 min - on working a 9-to-5
24 min - “wait until you see me dance” by Deb Olin Unferth and writing about offi...2020-03-021h 301storypod43: Cavin Bryce Gonzalez on CLONE MYSELF (2009) by Sam Pink and NEIGHBOR (2020) by Cavin [01.20]HARLEM / ORLANDO — Cavin Bryce Gonzalez is a storywriter and editor and curator from Orlando, Florida. He is the editor-in-chief of Back Patio Press. He got mad quick hitters available online here: https://neutralspaces.co/cavinbryce/
Cop his recent flash fiction collection, I COULD BE YOUR NEIGHBOR, ISN'T THAT HORRIFYING (2020): https://backpatiopress.bigcartel.com/product/i-could-be-your-neighbor-isn-t-that-horrifying
Sam Pink is the author of many many fire books including Garbage Time/White Ibis (2018), Witch Piss (2014), Rontel (2013), The No Hellos Diet (2011), Person (2010), and Ice Cream Man And Other Stories (forthcoming Soft Skull 2020)(https://softskull.com/dd-product/the-ice-cream-man-and-other-stories/)
I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Ki...2020-01-3100 min
1storypod42: Al Jacobs on JESUS' SON (1992) by Denis JohnsonNYC — Al Jacobs, 30, is an NYC-based writer from Toledo, Ohio. He read the copy of Jesus' Son (1992) I lent him over the past few months. I reread the Picador Modern Classics pocket version i copped after lending him my old version over the same period.
Jesus' Son (1992) is a series of interconnected short stories narrated by a guy, "Fuckhead," and follows several recurring characters, all addicts, who engage in drug use, petty crime, and murder. Denis Johnson (1949–2017) published Jesus' Son at the age of 43.
CONTENTS
5m pod start
8m the infantilized artist boi dream / baby stuff
10m my sus “The Other...2020-01-011h 19
1storypod41: Harold Rogers on ABSALOM, ABSALOM! (1936) by Billy FaulknerMANHATTAN — Harold, 22, is a writer, standup, and boxer. He grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Steubenville, Ohio. He read Absalom, Absalom! in the fortnight following the death of his paternal grandfather, about a month ago. I read it around the same time, six months after the death of my paternal grandfather.
A lotta dad stuff in this ep. Apologies for this extended Faulky bender I'm on. This the last one for now. If you haven't read the book, the 20 min intro could be a good overview to maybe coax you into cracking it. If you have, I mean, sh...2019-11-241h 14
1storypod40: Bud Smith on AS I LAY DYING (1930) by William Faulkner and WORK (2017) by Bud SmithJERSEY CITY — In the second part of 2666 (2004) by Bolaño, Amalfitano, a philosophy professor losing his mind, tries to understand the secrets of the universe through an esoteric geometry book. But instead of reading it, he hangs it on a clothesline, outside, and watches it get rained on—blasted by the elements. Bud Smith’s writing embodies this idea: he out here, in the world, working at his oil refinery job, making art around his life rather than the other way around.
I linked with him at his spot last weekend in Jersey City to talk about Faulkner’s As I Lay Dyi...2019-10-091h 291storypod39: Tren W. aka Based Mountain on CHERRY (2018) by Nico WalkerHARLEM-SYDNEY — Yo so I fucked with this book heavy. Obviously initially for the hype surrounding its backstory—homie Nico going to war, getting fucked up, getting hooked on opioids, robbing banks, getting caught, going to jail, still in jail now! (till 2020 i think) But the thing is it's written mad well too, on some Denis Johnson voice-driven type shit. Not to mention how in he goes, merking himself for all the wild shit he did. Not to mention how well it captures the petty drug trade in a bleak midwestern spot like outer Cleveland, where it's set. Just fire, all arou...2019-09-0900 min
1storypod38: My neighbor & friend Glenda on taking Ls but bouncing backN 41ST ST — Convo w my neighbor Glenda, 52. On my last day on the block (07/31/2019), after living there 2 plus yrs.2019-08-0225 min
1storypod37: Nicholas Baptiste on Tom Wolfe's BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES and Denis Johnson's JESUS' SONWEST PHILLY — Nicholas Baptiste is a Philly-based writer, reader, musician, and MFKN LIBRARIAN YO. So sick. We post up on a blasted summer day on Baltimore Ave and powwow off the cuff about a whole gang of shit, returning throughout to our most recent reads: Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) and Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son (1992), respectively. We talk writing processes and what we consider constitutes the best art. Where this leads might be summed up as: that which investigates the difficult, touchy, taboo ideas, without either valorizing or condemning any one version of them.
Sean Thor Conroe was born...2019-07-182h 21
1storypod36: Eric Conroe on THROWN (2014) by Kerry HowleyBKLYN-PHILLY — Eric Conroe, 33, is a writer and builder living in Brooklyn. He is the author of the poetry chapbook TOP BLOCKER (2017), available here: https://bit.ly/2M7ZvVV. He is my cousin.
He read Thrown (2014) by Kerry Howley in a sitting two weeks ago. I read it in multiple sittings a year ago.
Kerry Howley, 38, teaches nonfiction at University of Iowa. Thrown is her first book.2019-05-241h 14
1storypod35: Monogamy, Marriage, & Loyalty in DEPT. OF SPECULATION (2014) by Jenny OffillSOUTH PHILLY/SOUTH JERSEY — Still asking the same questions about monogamy, marriage, loyalty, child rearing, father/motherhood, the nuclear family, and work v. “love.” How these questions play out in Jenny Offill’s Dept of Speculation (2014), which charts a relationship from its inception to marriage to childbirth to infidelity, complicates things. Read in sips over the past three weeks and recorded during my CSA delivery route in South Philly (till I ran outta gas), during my route in South Jersey (after getting more gas), and on the way to the dentist, on foot, the following morning. Sound quality turned out surprisi...2019-04-281h 39
1storypod34: Aaron Dockser on writing, editing, rules, community, cults, and THE GAY SCIENCE (1887)PHILLY VIA BOSTON — In this special Lent pod, I catch up with the homie Aaron, 28 (1SP episodes 003 and 015), about the below topics during his weekend visit to Philly from Boston. Read is blog (http://somedayyeasayer.blogspot.com/). He's got some recent poems up about a hitchhiking trip he took around Scotland late last year.
0:00 - intro (03.11.2019)
2:44 - start of convo (03.09.2019)
6:00 - on criticism
9:00 - on keeping silent
13:00 - on editing
16:00 - on the accordion method
19:00 - on Bon Iver lol
23:00 - relocation from back to front
of house
25:00 - on Lent
28:00 - on rules
38:00 - on writing about the body
39:00...2019-03-111h 02
1storypod33: THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE FICTION (2019) by Roberto BolañoPHILLY — New Bolaño novel dropped 11 days ago, written when he was 31.
New story I mention: https://softcartel.com/2019/02/18/a-seat-in-the-circle-by-sean-thor-conroe/2019-02-211h 04
1storypod32: Sleep, Art, & Alt Bros in MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION (2018) by Otessa MoshfeghPHILLY — Really hit close to home, this one, especially with how dang nippy out it's getting; feeling of late like hibernation is just about all I'm up for. Otessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), her fourth book and second novel, is about a mid-twenties Manhattanite intent on blocking out the world by ingesting an increasingly harrowing cocktail of sedatives. Read it last week, mostly lying on my side, on my couch, on Benadryl, but also walking places, in the daytime, in the cold. In this episode, which I recorded at 7 a.m. while walking to the dentist, I ge...2019-01-311h 061storypod31: Touch, Tourism, & Polytheism in Houellebecq's PLATFORM (2002) [01.19] | 1STORYPOD w/ @stconroeMANTUA — Damn y'all, been rougher than some goddamn rough ass sandpaper, this past one. Still antibio-ed, roided, and limping after a long weekend in the pen, so synapses are firing on less than all cylinders. But this one finds its groove, considering, eventually: how this early Houellebecq stacks up against later, less optimistic iterations; how Houellebecq's emphasis on touch is interesting in the context of his typically mechanical view of intimacy; and how, even in today's secular world, we still adhere to mono- vs. polytheistic outlooks. Also: how research adds so much to a novel's depth. And: how crazy old Ge...2019-01-2400 min
1storypod30: Walls, Borders, & Violence in THE FEMICIDE MACHINE (2012) by Sergio González RodríguezLOS ANGELES — Sergio González Rodríguez (1950–2017) was a Mexican journalist and writer. A friend and colleague of Roberto Bolaño's, he was the primary source of information on the femicides—the countless unsolved rape-murders of women, primarily factory workers—in Ciudad Juárez, for the late Chilean novelist's novel, 2666.
Sean Thor Conroe's work has appeared in X-R-A-Y and is forthcoming from Soft Cartel. He tweets @stconroe and archives other art at http://1storyhaus.com2019-01-101h 03
1storypod29: Failure, Family, & Art in MOTHERHOOD (2018) by Sheila HetiLOS ANGELES — Been a trip and a half reading Motherhood while posted with the mother this past month of holiday fam time / convalescence out here in LA. Has really propelled me into the nitty-grit of thangs. In this ep, I go in with more gripes about Sheila's stance on procreation than I come out with. I consider her view on the importance or lack thereof of Art. I hash out her ideas on family extending beyond the nuclear. And I give her props on the deepest idea of all: that Failure can never be communicated, must always be private, and ye...2019-01-031h 14
1storypod28: Sean C. - THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES (2000) by Michel HouellebecqLOS ANGELES — I started reading The Elementary Particles (2000) this past summer. I railed through the first couple hundred pages fairly quickly, before stalling out on the last sixty-or-so. I finished it this past Thanksgiving.
In this episode, I explore Houellebecq's takes on the death of the nuclear family, extreme individualism in the West, and the value of declaratives.
Michel Houellebecq was born Michel Thomas in Réunion, France in 1956. Houellebecq is his paternal grandmother's maiden name. The Elementary Particles (2000), Houellebecq's second novel (orig. published Les Particules Élémentaires in 1998), was simultaneously hailed as a "nihilist classic" and criticized for its bruta...2018-12-031h 07
1storypod27: Gina Myers - PHILADELPHIA (2017) by Gina MyersPHILADELPHIA — Gina Myers is poet living in Philadelphia. She is the author of the poetry books HOLD IT DOWN (2013), A MODEL YEAR (2009), and six chapbooks including PHILADELPHIA (2017), from Barrelhouse, which she wrote, mostly on her phone, during the first few months of moving to Philadelphia (August–October 2014). I encountered her work after hearing her read from PHILADELPHIA in early 2017, months after moving back to Philadelphia.
Gina Myers co-edits the biannual online poetry journal, the tiny: https://www.thetinymag.com/
Some poems from PHILADELPHIA (2017): https://brooklynrail.org/2015/06/poetry/from-philadelphia-freedom-song
HOLD IT DOWN (2013):
Read: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58134/hold-it-down
Buy: https://www...2018-10-241h 151storypod26: Sean C. - MY STRUGGLE: BOOK SIX (2018) by Karl Ove Knausgaard [09.18]PHILADELPHIA — Sean, 27, is a writer, rapper, and podcaster living in Philadelphia. He is 450 pages into the 1150-page My Struggle: Book Six (2018) by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
REFERENCES:
"Podcast with Raisins" by Sheila Heti: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-4-stockholm-syndrome/id1193833547?i=1000421711180&mt=2
"The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing" (2014): https://www.amazon.com/Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Decluttering-Organizing/dp/1607747308
Contact: sean.thor.conroe@gmail.com
Twitter: twitter.com/stconroe
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1stor…d1238415112?mt=2
Soundcloud: @1storypod
Website: http://1storyhaus.com2018-10-1900 min1storypod25: Nick J. - LESS (2017) by Andrew Sean Greer [08.18]WEST PHILLY — Nick, 27, is a writer, poet, and teacher living in Philadelphia. He read Less (2017) over the past fortnight. I read it over the summer. Andrew Sean Greer (b. 1970) is an identical twin. Less is his fifth novel and sixth book. He lives in San Francisco. — http://twitter.com/stconroe / http://1storyhaus.com2018-09-1700 min
1storypod24: Nicholas - DON QUIXOTE (1615) by Miguel de CervantesWEST PHILLY — Nicholas lives, and has for “about six years,” in West Philly. He is originally from Seattle. He read Don Quixote (1615) recently, finishing it within the past fortnight. I read the first half in the summer of 2016 and the second half in the fall of 2017. We both read the edition translated by Edith Grossman and published by Ecco Books in 2003. Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) published the "First Part of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" in 1605, and the second in 1615, which he dedicated to his patron, Don Pedro Fernández Ruiz de Castro (1576–1622), the count of Lemos and viceroy of...2018-05-2546 min
1storypod23: Daoud - CARE FOR ME (2018) by Saba [04.18]MANHATTAN — Daoud, 26, is an Oakland-based producer. His work lives on the Internet @daoudmakesmusic (Soundcloud). He began working on Saba's second album Care For Me (2018) with @sabapivot and co-producer @daedaepivot last fall. I listened to Care For Me about once daily since its April 5 release. This conversation was recorded before and after Saba's April 13 tour stop at Highline Ballroom in New York City.2018-04-2524 min1storypod22: Beth B. - MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (2012) by Elena Ferrante (pt. II) [03.18]KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Beth (1SP 09), 25, was born and raised in Franklin, Kentucky. She has worked in nonprofit food distribution for the past two years, and is interested in the intersection between food and place. She read My Brilliant Friend (2012) over this past winter; I did over this past fall, and The Story of a New Name (2013) over this past winter. Elena Ferrante was born in 1943 in Naples, Italy. Intro song: "super focused (prod. gezi)" by canals https://goo.gl/HHtbT1 — @shocanals, http://1storyhaus.com2018-03-1900 min1storypod21.5: Viva H. - TSA APPROVED YaMZ (2018) by YaMZ [02.18]SAN JUAN, P.R. — YaMZ aka Viva H. (1SP eps 2, 6, & 7), 26, checks in from the recently storm-ridden US territory, where he is engaged in relief efforts, to talk his latest musical release, TSA APPROVED YaMZ. Watch the full EP video here: https://goo.gl/d7Bu78. Or listen: https://goo.gl/BcyEeB. Other referenced music: Jpegmafia's excellent 'Veteran' (2018): https://goo.gl/vcnrV2. Young Thug's loosie "MLK": https://goo.gl/n3V9CG. Read about Viva's travels at http://bumsum.net2018-03-1100 min
1storypod21: YaMZ - TSA APPROVED YaMZ (2018) *FULL EP w/ INTRO* by YaMZSAN JUAN, P.R. — Whether extolling the virtues of a legume-centric diet or exuding disarming gratitude in matters fraternal to cosmic, a quick TSA search finds YaMZ effortlessly emotive, lucid, and playful. Recorded entirely in transit, TSA Approved YaMZ, at just under eight minutes, could well be his most cohesive work yet. Full EP: https://goo.gl/QKQwWD. Blog: http://bumsum.net – @itscanals2018-01-2312 min1storypod20: Shiina K.C. - BIG MAGIC (2016) by Elizabeth Gilbert [01.18]ATHENS, N.Y. / BAY AREA, Calif. — Shiina, 25, is a massage healer and singer-songwriter splitting time between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. She first discovered Big Magic (2016) about a year ago. I read it over this past Christmas and finished it right before the new year. This episode is dedicated to Elizabeth Gilbert's late partner, Rayya Elias (1960–2018). Intro song: "Queer Love" by Sheena Conroe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7rBGufphGY
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Referenced essay: http://marc-degens.de/all-my-ex-friends/
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1storypod17: Eric C. - TOP BLOCKER (2017) by Eric ConroeBED-STUY — Eric, 31, is a poet, modern dancer, and carpenter living in Brooklyn. His chapbook, TOP BLOCKER, is now available from GAUSS PDF. I've read TOP BLOCKER a number of times over the past months, since its release. Order/read TOP BLOCKER here: https://goo.gl/VMpi1x. Eric tweets @ejconroe. - @sho_thor, http://1storyhaus.com2017-11-261h 471storypod16: Sam R. – FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (1971) by Hunter S. ThompsonPHILLY — Sam, 27, is a political organizer and ceramic artist living in Philadelphia. He first read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971) in high school. I first read it about six weeks ago. Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1937) served briefly in the U.S. Air Force before moving into journalism. He shot himself, at 67, in 2005. Intro song: lil peep - we think too much (prod. nedarb). - @sho_thor, 1storyhaus.com2017-11-1800 min
1storypod15: Aaron D. - HERA LINDSAY BIRD (2016) by Hera Lindsay BirdPHILLY — Aaron, 26, is a reader and writer of poetry living in Philadelphia. He discovered Hera Lindsay Bird while visiting New Zealand last month. I read Hera Lindsay Bird (Victoria University Press) twice over the past week. Hera Lindsay Bird (b. 1987) was born and raised in Thames, New Zealand. This, her first book, won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award. @sho_thor http://1storyhaus.com
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Read Aaron's poetry! ~ http://somedayyeasayer.blogspot.com/2017-11-072h 131storypod14: Tren W. - WITCH PISS (2014) by Sam PinkSYDNEY — Tren, 31, is a reader and writer Redfern, an inner-city suburb on Sydney's outskirts. He reread Witch Piss (Lazy Fascist Press) over the past week, though first discovered Sam Pink's books five years ago. I first read Witch Piss over the past week. Sam Pink lives in Chicago and plays in the band Depressed Woman. He tweets at @sampinkisalaive.
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1storypod13: Nick J. – MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (2012) by Elena FerrantePHILADELPHIA — Nick, 26, grew up primarily in North Carolina and lives in Los Angeles, where he writes and teaches. He first read My Brilliant Friend "a few months ago." I read it over the past fortnight, finishing it literally moments before this conversation. The first story published under the pseudonym Elena Ferrante appeared in 1992. There is considerable debate about her real identity, about which little has been confirmed. It has nonetheless been inferred, based on information from her interviews and correspondences with her publisher, that she "grew up in Naples, is a mother, and is not now married" (James Wood/Wiki). – 1stor...2017-09-281h 29