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.

http://1storyhaus.com/index.html

61: Brad Phillips on ESSAYS AND FICTIONS (2018)

OXFORD, MS / NYC — Nico Walker is the author of the novel Cherry (Knopf, 2018). He was born in Georgia and grew up in Las Vegas and Cleveland. He served as a medic in the Iraq war. And worked with the late Gian DiTrapano on Cherry while in prison in the mid 2010s. Here is a recent piece he wrote on Gian: https://www.bookforum.com/culture/giancarlo-ditrapano-1974-2021-24463

Recent collection on Gian in Muumuu House I contributed to: http://muumuuhouse.com/gian.11may2021.html

Lit hub article I mentioned on Cherry’s covers: https://lithub.com/the-trouble-with-designing-a-book-when-its-author-is-in-jail/

POD CONTENTS

7 min - pod start
10 min - Gian’s biggest grievance w the game
17 min - expert talk / literary pedantry
21 min - stuff people read in prison to entertain themselves 
24 min - the elitism of Literature and linguistic classism
27 min - books were initially about the democratization of thought
29 min - Lazarillo de Tormez 
30 min - Canterbury tales
33 min - Don Quixote / Battle of Lepanto (1571)
38 min - parallel between Cervantes and Nico 
41 min - McClanahan / we just do what we see on TV
41.5 min - the solution to the big house / indie divide
42 min - Nico’s experience w Gian v. Knopf
50 min - are you gonna put the work in
51 min - no one does anything alone
54 min - Marie Calloway
59 min - if no backlash is an artwork doing anything
1 hr 1 min - what is to be done
1 hr 3 min - the difficulty / importance of dialogue 
1 hr 7 min - we say who we are through our speech
1 hr 10 min - flannery O’Connor / *James Joyce quote correction - "I am a creature driven and derided by vanity"
1 hr 13 min - Hill William
1 hr 20 min - infallible narrators 
1 hr 23 min - how to keep going when shit gets more fucked than you ever coulda imagined 
1 hr 24 min - tear the bandaid off .. just say it
1 hr 28 min - on war
1 hr 35 min - the contradictions of war
1 hr 40 min - Nico’s day to day now / Rachael Rabbit White

http://1storyhaus.com/index.html

62: Nico Walker on CHERRY (2018) and GIAN (1974–2021)

COLLEGE PARK MD — Jordan Castro is the editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and the author of The Novelist, forthcoming from Soft Skull in 2022. 

We spoke this past Sunday, 13 June 2021, at his spot in Maryland after I drove down from NYC to hang with him a couple days. Jordan and I got especially close over the past couple months after losing our friend, the editor and publisher Gian DiTrapano. Jordan also helped me a lot in the aftermath of the passing my girlfriend, the writer Kyra Baldwin, not long before the passing of Gian this past March.

63: Jordan Castro 3

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

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

Fuccboi As Self Help w/ Stephen Adubato

NYC — My dad, 66, is an English teacher at a Waldorf school in Japan. This pod happened during our first in-person meeting in four years. On expatriation, self awareness, Dasein, existentialism, Rudolf Steiner, and the mission of America.

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi (2022).

77. My Dad

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)

79. I'm Like Salinger Fr w/ Harold Rogers

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 literal retelling of the Odyssey), along with other modernists.


Erich Auerbach's 1946 work of literary criticism MIMESIS treats canonical texts from the Bible to Homer to Dante to Don Quixote to Zola up to Virginia Woolf as literal-historical writers trying to understand their time, only speaking from their provisional perspective, rather than as deific texts to unpack as divine providence. A German-Jew who fought for Germany in the first World War, Auerbach worked at a library from 1922-1929, during which time he translated Vico's NEW SCIENCE into German for the first time. Matthias and I try to unpack the connection between these two texts, and to find the relevance between them and our current age.


Some notes: Overview of Giambattista Vico (4:22); Auerbach’s early years following World War One translating Vico (9:24); Auerbach on Zola’s Germinal (40:22); Matthias’s critique of Heidegger (50:22); writing as Letter Writing / Auerbach’s letters (1:07:33); Matthias on Knausgaard (1:11:55).

80. The Provisional vs. the Providential w/ Matthias Bormuth

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

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

82. Proust is Autofiction w/ Babak Lakghomi

"ODB, the Mud Puppy, and Me," from Scott 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: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Stories (2008) by Scott McClanahan

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.

84. October Full Moon Pod with Harold Rogers

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.

Tao Lin reading 5 poems at the Russian Samovar [11.14.23]

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.

The Renaissance After the Plague by Giancarlo DiTrapano (reading) + intro on Grief

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.

88. A Day at the Zoo *PREVIEW*

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/

89. Magic Girdle w/ Harold Rogers

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)

Ep. 91 - This Podcast is a Gun. With Liver Mush (2021) and I Have A Gun (3/2024) author Graham Irvin.

FULL 2 HRS: https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-podcast-is-97758663?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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

Fuccboi: 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/

91. Graham Irvin

Solo walking pod to and around the pond in central park on the Gospels, Alphabetical Diaries, and The Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger's Guild.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/alphabetical-2-98982729?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

92. Alphabetical Gospels (first 17)

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)

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

96. Everything is Totally Fine w/ Zac Smith

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

98. The Company We Keep w/ Andrew Martin

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."

99. Greedy Love w/ Little Tank *teaser*

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

LOS ANGELES — I started reading The Elementary Particles (2000) this past summer. I railed through the first couple hundred pages fairly quickly, before stalling out on the last sixty-or-so. I finished it this past Thanksgiving. 

In this episode, I explore Houellebecq's takes on the death of the nuclear family, extreme individualism in the West, and the value of declaratives. 

Michel Houellebecq was born Michel Thomas in Réunion, France in 1956. Houellebecq is his paternal grandmother's maiden name. The Elementary Particles (2000), Houellebecq's second novel (orig. published Les Particules Élémentaires in 1998), was simultaneously hailed as a "nihilist classic" and criticized for its brutality. Michiko Kakutani, for example, called it "a deeply repugnant read."

Sean Thor Conroe was born Kamura Sho in Tokyo in 1991. He lives in the United States, @stconroe (http://twitter.com/stconroe) on twitter, and at http://1storyhaus.com.

1STORYPOD

28: Sean C. - THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES (2000) by Michel Houellebecq

COLLEGE PARK–HARLEM — Jordan Castro is the editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and PETS: An Anthology, recently out from Tyrant Books https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets . I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Writers included are Patty Yumi Cottrell, Tao Lin, Ann Beattie, Sarah Manguso, Scott McClanahan, Kathryn Scanlan, Nicolette Polek, Chelsea Hodson, Blake Butler, Precious Okoyomon, Mark Leidner, Sam Pink, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, David Nutt, Reagan Bird, Michael W. Clune, Christine Schutt and Mallory Whitten. I recommend it for anyone who has or had or wants pets.

Cop PETS now !! – https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets

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47: Jordan Castro 1 (6.14.20) on PETS (2020) and THE PRESENT AGE (1843) by Kierkegaard

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)

TORONTO / NYC — Sheila Heti is the author of the short story collection the Middle Stories (2001), the short novel Ticknor (2005), the philosophy book the Chairs Are Where The People Go (2011), co-written by Misha Glouberman, How Should A Person Be? (2012), and Motherhood (2018). She also co-edited the collection Women in Clothes (2014). And wrote the intro to the new release of this Virginia Woolf essay, How Should One Read A Book? (2020). Her next book, Pure Colour, is coming out in January 2022. I first encountered Sheila’s writing in late 2014, when I tore through How Should A Person Be? in a night. I’ve since done a handful of pods on her books, so this is really exciting for me, it’s been a long time coming. We recorded this late last week. Sheila Heti lives in Toronto.

Here is a link to her website, with links to all her books: http://www.sheilaheti.com

Sheila's podcast "Podcast With Raisins": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-with-raisins/id1193833547

CONTENTS

8 min - pod start
12 min - Sheila’s current project
15 min - the book isn’t finished till it’s separate from you 
16 min - me tryna turn real life into an Art Idea
20 min - How Ticknor different but also similar to her other books
24 min - friendship/angels
25 min - how I first encountered Sheila's writing
36 min - on walking / Richard Serra
40 min - “art should be taken off the pedestal” 
42 min - Middle Stories reactions / why she wrote Ticknor
45 min - publishing right after 9/11
50 min - Sheila outing me for being in school lolol
55 min - Malcolm gladwell story
1 hr 4 min - coin stuff / mysticism
1 hr 7 min - on God
1 hr 11 min - on Nietzsche 
1 hr 12 min - “the great writers rearrange your brain”
1 hr 13 min - Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Martin Buber
1 hr 16 - “who decides that something is good is the Culture / having supporters” / Wittgenstein 
1 hr 21 min - “the person who loves a book is the one who’s right about it” / criticism
1 hr 28 min - on cigs / tobacco

Intro song: https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-master

Related episode - solo rant on Motherhood (1.3.2018): https://soundcloud.com/1storypod/29-family-failure-and-procreation-in-motherhood-2018-by-sheila-heti-1storypod-with-st-conroe

Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.

59: Sheila Heti

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