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).

75. Sam Lipsyte

Solo walking pod along the east river on 1.21.24 at 4:44 pm.

FULL HOUR: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pluto-in-solo-96947744

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).

90. Pluto in Aquarius (solo)

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

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

95. Harold Rogers on Mathias Enard (Zone, Compass, Gravediggers)

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 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)

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)

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]

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

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

On Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, Hieronymus Bosch, James Elkins, travel in Europe, Drake, Justin Bieber, and what makes a thing avant garde.

Bonues hour &c: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

142. Earthly Delights

Andrew Boryga came thru to talk about his novel Victim (2024). Bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Referenced: Malcolm Lowry, Junot Diaz, The Venerable Bede, Ernesto Quiñonez, Bolaño, Manuel Mujica Lainez.

143. Victims w/ Andrew Boryga

Part 3 in my trilogy about my monthlong trip to Japan for The Places Review: https://substack.com/home/post/p-168879828

Part 2: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-2-sean-thor-conroe?r=2jic0e

Part 1: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-1-funeral-family-travel-history?r=2jic0e

Japan: Part 3 by Sean Thor Conroe (reading)

READ: https://blast2mag.substack.com/p/blast-2-manifesto?utm_source=activity_item

BLAST2MAG@GMAIL.COM

BLAST 2 MANIFESTO

Max Lawton stopped by to talk translating Schattenfroh, out this month from Deep Vellum . Third hour incoming: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

145. SCHATTENFROH w/ Max Lawton

8/8 portal Aquarius full moon pod with goated artist and filmmaker Martine Syms, director the excellent 2022 film African Desperate. On Anne Carson, Sappho, Simone Weil, Julian of Norwich, mysticism, and kicking it in Paris at the Nike conference.

PART 2: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.

146. 88 Portal w/ Martine Syms

Harold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe on David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, The Recognitions by Gaddis, The Golden Bough by James Frazier, Augustine's Confessions, Paul's epistles, syncretism, automythography, Vico, and the Mutt Readings reading Sean did in Brooklyn. Second hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

147. Infinite Pod

The fellas convene at the Upper East Spot for one final pod: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Harold's essay: https://blast2mag.substack.com/p/abolishing-time

148. Secret Night Pod *preview*

149. Combat Cameras w/ Miles Lagoze

Sean comes down to the city to sperg out on Harold about Ovid, Vico, sacred prostitution, and the Venus mother goddess myth; Harold talks DFW, Suetonius, life in the city, and Rob Rubsam's Male Literature Vulture piece.

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

150. New Royalism *Faulky's birthday* (first 20)

From episode 151, "Ecclesiastes": https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

On Ecclesiastes, Jonah, Wuthering Heights, the Cuckoo King, autofiction ethics, automythography, and my stalker podcast. 

Wuthering Heights

Harold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe on Ecclesiastes, Jonah, Wuthering Heights, the Cuckoo King, substack ethics, automythography, and our stalker podcast. 

Part 2, etc: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

151. Ecclesiastes

Clarice Lispector, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman, Elizabeth I, Ernst Robert Curtius, Dante, and the young king Jaxon Dart.

Vico Lecture and Brett Gifford Interview incoming: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Blast 2: https://blast2mag.substack.com/

152. Men of Nowhere

Brett came thru on his way down to NYC from Montreal to talk about his influences and his work and his writing. Read his story Cheryl on Blast 2: https://blast2mag.substack.com/

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

153. Brett Gifford (first 30)

Harold finished The Man Without Qualities by Musil, Sean finished The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede and revisited Zarathustra.

155. Love and Greatness

Gravity's Rainbow, The Tain (the Irish Iliad), Sean's Writing Desire talk with Jen Beagin, pulling up on Danielle Chelosky's reading, and whether or not the Apostle Paul was a gooner.

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

156. Paul Was A Gooner

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

#

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

1storypod

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks