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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

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132. The New Mythic Method w/ Al Jacobs *preview* by Sean Thor Conroe

On 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

On Hamlet, Ulysses, the Iliad, Anna Karenina, and self-invention. Full ep and bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

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Sean 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.

Reading through all of The Sound and the Fury, explaining what’s going on, with introductory lecture-rants each week. Emphasizing the element of the novel that retells Easter weekend—that is, the gospels. Ep 2 & more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/live-annotation-121818722?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Free preview of this essay I posted to my substack: https://seanthorconroe.substack.com/p/overlanding-essay-original-full-version

On 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.

From bonus hour of ep. 125, get on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod On popular genre fiction (Emily Henry), Time in fiction, Tristram Shandy, the Gospel According to Thomas, The Friend by Sigrid Nunez, and the Stars. Listen to or read Harold's piece on Tristram Shandy: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/p/futile-and-idle-men

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

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

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

From Ep 121 *bonus*: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod On Robert Walser, Hoderlin, Stoner by John Williams, Mike Tyson. Referenced novel at the end is Grande Sertao by João Guimarães Rosa, originally published in 1956, first translated in 1963 as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, and being retranslated by by Alison Entrekin as Vastlands: The Crossing, due out in 2026.

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/

From episode 118 with Sedrick Chisom: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sedrick-chisom-113955340 Art: George The Younger, The Lord of The Equestrian Short Kings, Trotted Around on a Stolen Blighted Cavalryman's Horse, Worked To the Bone During Miasmic asscrack Hours, 2022, by Sedrick Chisom. Sedrick's new exhibition, The Villain of History for One Night Alone, is up now at Pillar Corrias in London until December 21, 2024: https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/467-sedrick-chisom-the-villain-of-history-for-one-night-alone/

Bonus hour plus more: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod Heavy Traffic V out now: https://heavytrafficmagazine.com/

Harold wrote about paradise lost: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/p/eve-is-the-devil-but-thats-good From ep 116: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Full 2 hours 22 minutes on the Patreon.