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Harold 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.

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

Part 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/

Why is Odysseus in Hell? From Patreon Ascension Sunday ep on Dante's Inferno, Vita Nuova by Dante, Dante: Poet of the Secular World (1929) by Erich Auerbach, and The Obscene Bird of the Night (1973) by Jose Donoso. https://www.patreon.com/posts/im-like-dante-fr-104208398?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Solar 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

Full 1 hr 44 min phone pod w/ Little Tank, formerly known as Savage Chkild (cf. pp 103-107 of Fuccboi): https://www.patreon.com/posts/99-greedy-love-w-102304701?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link | Little Tank is the author, most recently, of Russian Summer. "Misanthropy comes of an all too greedy love."

Andrew 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

Zac 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

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.