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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).

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=

NYC — Sam Lipsyte is the author of Venus Drive (2000), The Subject Steve (2001), Homeland (2004), The Ask (2010), The Fun Parts (2013), Hark (2019), Friend of the Pod (2022) and No One Left to Come Looking For You (2022).

NYC — Interviewed by Stephen Adubato for his podcast Cracks in Postmodernity. We talk about this review he wrote on Fuccboi in City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/article/reality-check . Good dude. Last Fuccboi centric pod, just talking to other writers about their writing from now on. Artwork: Fuccboi, Oil on canvas, 20” x 20” by Phoebe Clemens https://phoebeclemens.com

MARTHA’S VINEYARD — Drove up the coast to talk to Philip Weinstein (b. 1940), former head of the American Faulkner society, author of Unknowing (2005), Becoming Faulkner (2010), What Else But Love? (1996), Soul Error (2021), and editor of the Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (1995).

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod Megan Nolan and Sean Thor Conroe on their respective novels Acts of Desperation (2021) and Fuccboi (2022).

NYC — 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 Hard Thing": https://magazine.nytyrant.com/the-hard-thing-paul-dalla-rosa/ intro song: playboi carti - "close to you" (prod. adrian) Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi (2022): https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394819/ Website: https://1storyhaus.com/pod/71-paul-dalla-rosa

NYC / 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).

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 - writing as Play 1 hr 8 min - writing about Parents 1 hr 13 min - our histories with religion Leave Society out now: https://www.amazon.com/Leave-Society-Vintage-Contemporaries-Tao/dp/1101974478/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=leave+society+tao+lin&qid=1659308112&s=books&sprefix=leave+societ%2Cstripbooks%2C81&sr=1-1 Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fucc

A BENCH IN EAST RIVER PARK — Solstice-eve sitdown with legendary poet and novelist Eileen Myles (b. 1949), author of Chelsea Girls (1994), Cool For You (2000), Inferno (2010), Afterglow (2017), Evolution (2018), For Now (2020), and other books. Pod contents: 4 min - Marija Gimbutas. 9 min - Egyptian book of the dead / Afterglow (2017) / reincarnation. 11 min - Nonverbal communication. 15 min - Zola / writing about work. 19 min - “pathetic literature" / loser narrators. 24 min - readings. 30 min - the proletariat v. bourgeoisie now 34 min - east river park. 39 min - mistrust of “fiction.” 40 min - male v. Female lust. 46 min - orality / the beats / Kerouac. 49 min - Henry Miller. 54 min - rocks / grounding. 58 min - Transparent. 1 hr 7 min - the quiet place. 1 hr 9 min - the Northman. 1 hr 10 min - “the show about the show.” 1 hr 12 min- Valleyesque Fernando Flores. 1 hr 15 min - writing about the dead. 1 hr 18 min - Gerard de Nerval / ghosts. http://1storyhaus.com/pod/69-eileen-myles

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 - Incest (1999) Christine Angot. 24 min - Romping along the highway (primate mode). 28 min - Studs Lonigan (1960) by James T. Farrell (the OG Fuccboi). 34 min - Fiction vs nonfiction. 41 min - Doing college after going to war. 44 min - Who is the enemy. 50 min - The ability to laugh at yourself. 57 min - Bringing light to the darkness. Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi

BERLIN / 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).

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 real one. GARGOYLE: https://www.amazon.com/Gargoyle-Reporting-frontlines-cells-houses/dp/B092PG6K13 POPULAR FRONT: https://www.patreon.com/popularfront/posts 3 min - on Hoods Hoods Clan 8 min - on Fuccboi (2022) 14 min - on the Kazinskiite pine tree community https://www.wired.co.uk/article/unabomber-netflix-tv-series-ted-kaczynski from Gargoyle (2021) 19 min - Combat Obscura 22 min - on Heartbreak 23 min - shitty labor jobs 29 min - anti-snobbery media 32 min - on working w Andrew Callaghan 38 min - the state of things in Ukraine 42 min - when things are beyond theory 56 min - Hanrahan’s come up 58 min - on Reading and Writing 1 hr 3 min - on Scrapping 1 hr 7 min - on Sincerity 1 hr 13 min - on bouncing back from Grief 1 hr 23 min - “Surviver” Chuck Palaniuk 1 hr 26 min - “Seek” by Denis John