TORONTO / NYC — Brad Phillips is a writer and artist from Toronto. He is the author of Essays and Fictions (Tyrant, 2018). I enjoyed this book a lot. I felt it was courageous, funny, intimate, deceptively sweet, and formally inventive. Here is a link to the book: https://www.nytyrant.com/products/essays-and-fictions-by-brad-phillips . Here is a link to the recent story he published on Muumuu House that we reference: http://muumuuhouse.com/bp.03feb2021.html . Here is a link to a NYT thing shouting out his instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brad___phillips/?hl=en ): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/design/artists-instagram-coronavirus.html

POD CONTENTS:

2 min - pod start / how Brad prepped for this pod
7 min - how Brad started painting / doing the art
10 min - how Brad feels about Essays and Fictions now
13 min - “Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell.” - Benjamin
15 min - “Write from the end of the world”
16 min - desperation vs self sabotage 
19 min - whether or not “doing better” having written the book 
21 min - things Brad does to “do better” (physically)
24 min - dealing w trauma thru the body 
27 min - do it for the ones who need it
31 min - “boundaries” in autofiction
35 min - why writing presented by a narrator who share’s author’s name interesting
39 min - deja vu / “intuition is god”
42 min - writing is less about writing a lot than it is about intuiting when it’s Time to write
45 min - is human connection possible
47 min - everything is performance and that’s ok 
52 min - the self is a story so I don’t feel weird writing stories about a self I am now
56 min - making yourself a dumb animal to be ok
59 min - “write for pleasure publish for money” pushkin 
1 hr - to share or not to share
1 hr 3 min - is writing helpful
1 hr 4 min - Danny from “The Barista the Rooster & Me” 
1 hr 6 min - drugs

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Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.

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61: Brad Phillips on ESSAYS AND FICTIONS (2018)

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).

66: Rob Doyle

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).

70: Tao Lin

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

81. Most Hated w/ Alex Kazemi

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

93. Hbd Houellebecq w/ Dean Kissick

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 |

94. Harsh Grandfather w/ Geoff Rickly

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

100. Solar Eclipse Faulkner Pod w/ Harold Rogers

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/

102. Jataka Tales w/ Sotce

Full 2 hours: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Gabriel Smith wrote Brat, out now from Penguin.

Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.

105. Yung Bratz w/ Gabriel Smith (first hour)

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

107. Honor Levy (first 30 min)

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.

108. Sotce 3 (w/ intro)

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

111. Cold Visions w/ Harold Rogers

Bonus hour plus more: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Heavy Traffic V out now: https://heavytrafficmagazine.com/

120. Ego Death w/ Patrick McGraw (Heavy Traffic)

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. 

123. Dead Souls (first 30)

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

124. Winter Solstice of Our Discontent

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.

127. Brutalist sentimentalism

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

Lecture / reading: The Sound and the Fury #1 [p. 1-17]

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.

128. Pod of Myself w/ Will Mountain Cox

129. Wizened Youth w/ Diego Sanchez (first 30)

On Hamlet, Ulysses, the Iliad, Anna Karenina, and self-invention.

Full ep and bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

130. Consciousness Level-up (first 50)

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

131. Sacred Grove with Eric Conroe

132. The New Mythic Method w/ Al Jacobs *preview*

133. Confessions with Thomas Thatcher (first 13:33)

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 -->

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134. Mating (first 11:44)

Sean returned from Japan, Harold read Schattenfroh (Deep Vellum, August 2025) by Michael Lentz, tr. Max Lawton. Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Harold read Schattenfroh

Part one of our pod with Adelaide Faith, author of Happiness Forever, out now from FSG. 

https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

138. Happiness Forever with Adelaide Faith

With Matthew Gasda, author of the novel Sleepers and the play Dimes Square, full ep: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

139. Sleepers w/ Matthew Gasda *PREVIEW*

PHILADELPHIA — Viva, 25, raps as Yamz, works at a compost company, and makes a mean brown rice bowl (with kraut and stir fry, generally). He first read On Truth and Untruth this morning.

Friedrich Nietzsche (d. 1900), the son of Lutheran pastor, was born near Leipzig, Prussia (now Germany). He wrote the titular essays in On Truth and Untruth in 1872–1873, at the age of 28–29, while still a professor at the University of Basel

INTRO song: https://soundcloud.com/yams_npotatoes/compostco-6417-146-pm-1

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06: Viva H. – ON TRUTH AND UNTRUTH (2010) by Friedrich Nietzsche

PHILADELPHIA — Zac, 26, lives in Philadelphia and works at an art gallery. He read The Possibility of an Island (tr. Gavin Bowd) in a week, finishing it hours before this conversation. I read it a couple months back, also fairly quickly. Michel Houellebecq (b. 1956), 61, is a novelist, filmmaker, and poet. He was born on the French island of Reunion, and lives in France. Houellebecq (Michel's grandmother's maiden name) had a child in 1980, shortly after graduating and marrying, before quickly "growing depressed," taking up poetry, and divorcing. His work has been described by NYT critic Michiko Kakutani as "deeply repugnant."

10: Zac J. – THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISLAND (2005) by Michel Houellebecq

NAPLES — Giancarlo DiTrapano is the founder, editor, and publisher of New York Tyrant. The magazine initially, starting in 2005. And then of Tyrant Books, starting in 2010. I spoke with him in his apartment in Naples two days ago, before flying back to the states yesterday. After flying out there 11 days ago. He wrote for Vice for a minute during the early tens and has ran the workshop Mors Tua Vita Mea, with the writer Chelsea Hodson, in Sezze, Italy since 2015. He grew up in Charleston, West Virginia and spent many years in New York City before moving out to Italy five years ago. We talk about how he came into the game with the magazine and the imprint, what he’s psyched about writing-wise now, a whole bunch of stuff. Thoroughly enjoyed ripping this convo and running it back.

NY Tyrant: https://nytyrant.com

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POD CONTENTS

6 min - pod start: G dissing and me tryna defend Ferrante lmaoo
8 min - Of Love and Other Demons by Garcia Marquez
9 min - Autoportrait by Edouard Leve / story versus bars/syntax
11 min - translated versus untranslated 
11.5 min - G: “We should be recording this.” Me: “Bro it’s recording.”
12 min - coffee ready
13 min - move from kitchen to living room
13 min - McClanahan , bars v. Voice 
14 min - on Liveblog (2018) by Megan Boyle
19 min - ‘prep’ = Preparation for the Next Life (2014) by Atticus Lish and ‘shapiro’ = Supremacist (2016) by Dave Shapiro
22 min - story on linking w Atticus Lish
26 min - How to Live is bigger than How to Write
27 min - Louise Gluck
32 min - Babak Lakghomi
38 min - "everything important in literature is about Death"
41 min - on mimicry / imitation
46 min - on exclamation points / nietzsche ecce homo
48 min - Lutz
49 min - Tyrant Vol 3 No 2 / young Diane Lane "the Outsiders"
55 min - story of G pulling up to nyc / FSG
59 min - putting out the first Tyrant mag / Sheila Heti
1 hr 2 min - DFW
1 hr 3 min - “all these lit mags started bc the Internet”
1 hr 6 min - Supremacist by David Shapiro
1 hr 12 min - drugs according to music era
1 hr 18 min - first linking w Castro
1 hr 21 min - what/who G hype on rn / Honor Levy
1 hr 22 min - Christopher Kennedy
1 hr 29 min - mors tua vita mea
1 hr 37 min - on how relevant or not relevant being out here for writing
1 hr 40 min - How the infrastructure of Literature upheld

Intro song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1YnDZXJ7Dj0Uk9Pqu4tdAX?si=evQ3qjohRo2VxpXVIQwtig

Sean Thor Conroe https://mobile.twitter.com/stconroe lives in Harlem.

58: Gian DiTrapano on NY TYRANT (since 2005)

A podcast about literature by Sean Thor Conroe, author of Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912

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