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1storypod
1storypod156. Paul Was A GoonerGravity's Rainbow, The Tain (the Irish Iliad), Sean's Writing Desire talk with Jen Beagin, pulling up on Danielle Chelosky's reading, and whether or not the Apostle Paul was a gooner. https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
2025-12-191h 071storypod
1storypod155. Love and GreatnessHarold finished The Man Without Qualities by Musil, Sean finished The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede and revisited Zarathustra.
2025-12-051h 04The Internet Is Dead
The Internet Is Deadsean thor conroe on fuccboi, literacy, and the male loneliness epidemicsean thor conroe talks about his book fuccboi, whether the book is pushing men in a positive direction, if it's possible to write something like it without radicalizing men towards the incel pipeline, his perception of the manosphere and the male loneliness epidemic, our declining literacy rate, and the association conroe has with alt lit on episode 83 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*·。(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ
2025-10-281h 011storypod
1storypod151. EcclesiastesHarold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe on Ecclesiastes, Jonah, Wuthering Heights, the Cuckoo King, substack ethics, automythography, and our stalker podcast. Part 2, etc: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
2025-10-261h 051storypod
1storypod150. New Royalism *Faulky's birthday* (first 20)Sean comes down to the city to sperg out on Harold about Ovid, Vico, sacred prostitution, and the Venus mother goddess myth; Harold talks DFW, Suetonius, life in the city, and Rob Rubsam's Male Literature Vulture piece. FULL EP: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
2025-10-0119 min1storypod
1storypod149. Combat Cameras w/ Miles Lagoze149. Combat Cameras w/ Miles Lagoze by Sean Thor Conroe
2025-09-1250 min1storypod
1storypod147. Infinite PodHarold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe on David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, The Recognitions by Gaddis, The Golden Bough by James Frazier, Augustine's Confessions, Paul's epistles, syncretism, automythography, Vico, and the Mutt Readings reading Sean did in Brooklyn. Second hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
2025-08-251h 00Canal Street Dreams
Canal Street DreamsHarold Rogers & Sean Thor Conroe on Canal Street DreamsThis week we had no childcare so Natashia took one for the team and hung out with Senna. This called for one thing and one thing only. BOYSCAST. Harold Rogers joins the show alongside returning guest Sean Thor Conroe. Plus two VERY SPECIAL guests to kick off the show!
2025-08-2259 min1storypod
1storypod146. 88 Portal w/ Martine Syms8/8 portal Aquarius full moon pod with goated artist and filmmaker Martine Syms, director the excellent 2022 film African Desperate. On Anne Carson, Sappho, Simone Weil, Julian of Norwich, mysticism, and kicking it in Paris at the Nike conference. PART 2: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.
2025-08-151h 201storypod
1storypodTHE LAST SUPPER by Sean Thor Conroe [BLAST 2]READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/blast2mag/p/the-last-supper?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false BLAST2MAG@GMAIL.COM
2025-08-0911 min1storypod
1storypod144 - BLAST 2 *CLIP*FULL HOUR on Philip II, Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, Go Down Moses by Faulkner, The Venerable Bede, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, eviction, BLAST 2 TENETS: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod HAROLD ROGERS and SEAN THOR CONROE on 31 JULY 2025 in NYC.
2025-08-0112 min1storypod
1storypodJapan: Part 3 by Sean Thor Conroe (reading)Part 3 in my trilogy about my monthlong trip to Japan for The Places Review: https://substack.com/home/post/p-168879828 Part 2: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-2-sean-thor-conroe?r=2jic0e Part 1: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-1-funeral-family-travel-history?r=2jic0e
2025-07-2636 min1storypod
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=false
2025-06-2035 minCanal Street Dreams
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=ios
2025-05-3029 min1storypod
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/1storypod
2025-05-0625 min1storypod
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/1storypod
2025-04-1011 min1storypod
1storypod132. The New Mythic Method w/ Al Jacobs *preview*132. The New Mythic Method w/ Al Jacobs *preview* by Sean Thor Conroe
2025-03-2423 min1storypod
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-one
2025-03-181h 081storypod
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 101storypod
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 021storypod
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/1storypod
2025-01-0611 min1storypod
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 181storypod
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 min1storypod
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 min1storypod
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/1storypod
2024-07-281h 021storypod
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-years
2024-07-1818 min1storypod
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 461storypod
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=c5849b0c0b23417c
2024-06-2431 min1storypod
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=1
2024-06-1805 min1storypod
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 001storypod
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 min1storypod
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-atm
2024-06-0133 minClout Farm
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: @cloutfarmpod
2024-05-2123 min1storypod
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 min1storypod
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-atm
2024-04-231h 111storypod
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-keeps
2024-04-051h 251storypod
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_sharing
2024-03-211h 32Lo Fi Lit
Lo Fi LitSean Thor ConroeSean came on the show . He wrote Fuccboi
2024-03-192h 011storypod
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_link
2024-03-151h 381storypod
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 min1storypod
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 05The Paris Review
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 Review
2024-01-2417 min1storypod
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 031storypod
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 min1storypod
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 min1storypod
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 091storypod
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 min1storypod
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 231storypod
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 min1storypod
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 14Cracks in Postmodernity
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 351storypod
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 minWeird Era
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 minSalt Lake Dirt
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 min1storypod
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 211storypod
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 201storypod
1storypodTao 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 min1storypod
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 min1storypod
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 171storypod
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 301storypod
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 57Cookies: A Basketball Podcast
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 28Bookin’
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 minHow Long Gone
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 00Wet Brain
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 min1storypod
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 091storypod
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 351storypod
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 421storypod
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 001storypod
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 051storypod
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 021storypod
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 051storypod
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/ # 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 071storypod
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 581storypod
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.com
2020-06-211h 321storypod
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 min1storypod
1storypod45: 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 min1storypod
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/ # 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 301storypod
1storypod43: 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 min1storypod
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 191storypod
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 141storypod
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 291storypod
1storypod39: 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 min1storypod
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 min1storypod
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 211storypod
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 141storypod
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 391storypod
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 021storypod
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 041storypod
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 061storypod
1storypod31: 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 min1storypod
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.com
2019-01-101h 031storypod
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 141storypod
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 071storypod
1storypod26: 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.com
2018-10-1900 min1storypod
1storypod25: 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.com
2018-09-1700 min1storypod
1storypod20: 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 Subscribe to 1storypod on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1storypod/id1238415112?mt=2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/1storypod?lang=en / http://1storyhaus.com
2018-01-1100 min1storypod
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.com
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1storypod16: 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.com
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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 Buy Hera's book! ~ http://vup.victoria.ac.nz/hera-lindsay-bird/ Read Aaron's poetry! ~ http://somedayyeasayer.blogspot.com/
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