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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.

Dispatch from Hershey / intro to new Sotce ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

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/

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

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/

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

Author of Tantrums and Ritual and Anatomy Courses (w/ Blake Butler) and foremost alt lit historian Sean Kilpatrick comes on the pod to talk literature. Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod | Sean Kilpatrick: https://anorexicchlorinesextoymuseum.blogspot.com/

Read the final draft: https://seanthorconroe.substack.com/p/on-sam-pink-scheming-and-slander

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod | Event this Saturday, 7/13, in Philly: https://www.instagram.com/american_grammar/?hl=en | Tropicalia by Harold Rogers: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013878 | VIdeo clip: https://youtu.be/Jh3D0k16T90

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.

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

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

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