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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

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

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

Walked to the pond in central park, spoke on some books I've been thinking about (the Gospels, Sheila's Alphabetical Diaries, Matthias Enard's Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger's Guild). From Sunday, 2/18/24. Part 2 (44 min): https://www.patreon.com/posts/alphabetical-2-98982729?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Ep. 91 - This Podcast is a Gun. With Liver Mush (2021) and I Have A Gun (3/2024) author Graham Irvin. 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 Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi (2022): 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/

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

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

Full hour: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88-nye-bonus-day-95604677?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Possibly my favorite podcast ep ever. With Harold Rogers. Read his novel Tropicalia. Works/writers mentioned: Grimmish by Michael Winkler, Simone Weil, The Possibility of an Island, Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino, Witness to the Fire by Linda Leonard, Montaigne, Dante, Wittgenstein, Joyce, Marguerite Young, The Walk Book, Alphabetical Diaries, Paul Wall, Annie Erneaux. Happy NYE everyone.

Intro 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.

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.

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

From paywalled Oct 2023 new moon eclipse video ep "Confessions" w/ Harold Rogers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/confessions-w-92292166?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_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.

Full hourlong video ep "Confessions" with Harold Rogers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/confessions-w-92292166 On our own books, literary confession, diary writing, Gilbert Sorrentino, Gwendoline Riley, Jack Houghteling, Drake, Borges, Alphabetical Diaries, and Andrew Martin. Tropicalia by Harold Rogers: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic%C3%A1lia-Novel-Harold-Rogers/dp/1668013878/ref=monarch_sidesheet Alphabetical Diaries (FSG, 2/6/24): https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610784/alphabeticaldiaries Early Work (2018) by Andrew Martin: https://www.amazon.com/Early-Work-Novel-Andrew-Martin/dp/1250215013/ref=monarch_sidesheet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZsC5v8Tan4&t=54s

Reading from McClanahan's first book Stories (2008): https://www.amazon.com/Stories-scott-mcclanahan/dp/0981009123?ref_=ast_author_dp From 10.27.23 eclipse pod w Harold, video ep incoming: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Babak Lakghomi, author of Floating Notes (Tyrant, 2018) and South (Dundern, 2023), on working with the late great Giancarlo DiTrapano, David Markson, fragments, friction, literature as a revolutionary act, Proust, and autofiction. 1 min - on working with Gian / Tyrant 6 min - on South (Dundern Press) 7 min - on David Markson 8 min - fragments 9 min - archetypes / Edith Grossman 9.5 - Alvaro Mutis, Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (1995) 10 min - Nada (1945) by Carmen Laforet 14 min - writing as a revolutionary act (vs books as commodities) 17 min - what Literature is / Kafka 23 min - Solenoid by Mircia Cartarescu 26 min - the Courageous act of Literature 27 min - Proust / To the Lighthouse 29 min - Mary McCarthy 30 min - on autofiction

Spoke on some shit. With New Millennium Boyz (2023) author Alex Kazemi. Full moon in Aries. -STC www.alexkazemi.com https://1storyhaus.com/1stories.html

Ep. 80: With philosopher, author, and Auerbach scholar Matthias Bormuth (b.1963), a professor of Comparative Intellectual History at University of Oldenburg. On Erich Auerbach's MIMESIS: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946), and how it was influenced by the great Neapolitan thinker Giambattista Vico's NEW SCIENCE (1744). I first met Matthias at this Phillip Roth festival in Newark I wrote about back in March for the Paris Review: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/04/19/reading-myself-and-others-roth-festival-dispatch/ Giambattista Vico was born in Naples in 1668 and was a relatively unknown Professor of Rhetoric at the city's university. He'd work on and revise his ambitious work NEW SCIENCE throughout his life, publishing preliminary versions in 1725 and 1730, though it wasn't till his death in 1744 that the third and final version appeared. Vico's text, most of all his literal and historical view of Homer, would go on to hugely influence James Joyce's writing of Ulysses (a l

On 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)

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

NYC — My dad, 66, is an English teacher at a Waldorf school in Japan. This convo coincided with our first meeting in four years. On fatherhood, expatriate life, self-awareness, Heidegger, existentialism, Rudolf Steiner, and the mission of America. Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi (2022).