1STORYHAUS:
on The Ground
by Hand (w/ Found Objects)
on The Ground
by Hand (w/ Found Objects)
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2024
Heavy Traffic Issue IV "The Darkest Week of the Year" in The Paris Review "Episode 8: The Walk Book" on The Paris Review Podcast "The Walk Book" in The Paris Review 246 (Winter 2024) 2023 "On Overlanding" in GQ (August 2023) "Going Roth Mode" in The Paris Review (April 2023) "On Emmanuel Carrere" in The Mars Review (March 2023) Fuccboi out in paperback (January 2023) |
Fuccboi: A Novel (January 25, 2022) from Little Brown
Fuccboi review by Jay McInerney in The Wall Street Journal Fuccboi review by Christian Lorentzen in London Review of Books Fuccboi review by Rob Doyle in The Guardian (UK) Profile in New York Magazine / Vulture (January 2022)2022 NTS mix on NTS Live (September 2022) "On Germinal" in Unherd (August 2022) "#204" on Perfectly Imperfect (August 2022) Bad Artist Statement #9 w/ Paul Dalla Rosa (August 2022) "What MJ Taught Me About Manhood..." in GQ Magazine (February 2022) |
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Interview in LA Review of Books
Interview in Hobart Interview in Huck Magazine (January 2022) "Horse Rider" (Fuccboi excerpt) in n+1 2021 In Interview Magazine (December 2021) Fuccboi review in Bookforum (November 2021) "Drive by" (October 2021) in Forever Magazine Issue 02 Fuccboi review in Publisher's Weekly (September 2021) "33 Remembrances on Gian" (May 2021) in Muumuu House "Four Memories of Giancarlo DiTrapano" (April 2021) in The Paris Review |
2020
"Crisis of Uselessness" (Oct 2020) in Vol. 1 Brooklyn "Nudes Story" (May 2020) in Hobart "Postmate" (Jan 2020) in New York Tyrant "Two Quick Hitters" (Jan 2020) in The Nervous Breakdown 2019 "Another Way To Stay Calm" (Nov 2019) in Back Patio "A Seat in the Circle" (Feb 2019) in Soft Cartel 2018 "Michael" (July 2018) in X-R-A-Y |
PODCAST
1storypod (May 2017–present) on iTunes / on Spotify / on Patreon
92. Alphabetical Gospels (solo) — 2/21/24
91. This Podcast is a Gun w/ Graham Irvin — 2/3/24
90. Pluto in Aquarius (solo) — 1/21/24
89. Magic Girdle w/ Harold Rogers — 1/12/24
92. Alphabetical Gospels (solo) — 2/21/24
91. This Podcast is a Gun w/ Graham Irvin — 2/3/24
90. Pluto in Aquarius (solo) — 1/21/24
89. Magic Girdle w/ Harold Rogers — 1/12/24
2023
88. A Day At the Zoo w/ Harold Rogers — 12/31/23
87. The Joy of Poetry w/ Andrew Weatherhead — 12/18/23
86. The Renaissance After the Plague — 12/6/23
85. Tao Lin Reads 5 Poems — 11/18/23
84. Monastic Mode w/ Harold Rogers -- 11/11/23
83. Confessions w/ Harold Rogers — 11/4/23
82. Proust is Autofiction w/ Babak Lakghomi — 10/27/23
81. Most Hated w/ Alex Kazemi — 9/29/23
80. The Provisional and the Providential w/ Matthias Bormuth — 9/22/23
79. I'm Like Salinger Fr w/ Harold Rogers — 9/3/23
78. Nazi Literatures in the Americas w/ Ellie L. — 8/27/23
87. The Joy of Poetry w/ Andrew Weatherhead — 12/18/23
86. The Renaissance After the Plague — 12/6/23
85. Tao Lin Reads 5 Poems — 11/18/23
84. Monastic Mode w/ Harold Rogers -- 11/11/23
83. Confessions w/ Harold Rogers — 11/4/23
82. Proust is Autofiction w/ Babak Lakghomi — 10/27/23
81. Most Hated w/ Alex Kazemi — 9/29/23
80. The Provisional and the Providential w/ Matthias Bormuth — 9/22/23
79. I'm Like Salinger Fr w/ Harold Rogers — 9/3/23
78. Nazi Literatures in the Americas w/ Ellie L. — 8/27/23
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1SP077:
Podcast with my Father 8.11.23 
NYC — My dad, 66, is an English teacher at a Waldorf school in Japan. This convo happened during our first meeting in four years. On expatriation, self awareness, Dasein, existentialism, and Steiner's "The Mission of America."
1 hr / Aug 17
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1SP076:
Harold Rogers on Tropicalia (2023) 
NYC — On numerology, Lolita, the Gospels, resurrection, fate, Faulkner, and incel manifestos with Tropicalia author Harold Rogers.
1 hr 14 min / Aug 6
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1SP075: Sam Lipsyte
author of Venus Drive (2000), The Ask (2013), etc. on No One Left to Come Looking for You (2022) 
NYC — Sam Lipsyte (b. 1968) 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).
1 hr 9 min / July 31
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1SP073: Philip Weinstein
author of Unknowing (2005) and Soul Error (2021) on Becoming Faulkner (2010) 
1 hr / May 24
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1SP071: In Conversation with
Paul Dalla Rosa author of An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (2022) 
NYC — Paul Dalla Rosa is a 30-year-old writer from Melbourne. His first story collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (2022), is out now. Paul is a graduate of Mors Tua Vita Mea, the writing workshop Chelsea Hodson ran with my former editor, the late Giancarlo DiTrapano. A written version of this conversation is up on Paul's substack, Bad Artist Statements.
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1SP070: Tao Lin
author of Leave Society (2021) on Chalice and the Blade (1987) 
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 leaky gut, organ meats, liver king, lashing out on friends, and whether partnership societies had MMA.
On Patreon / 1 hr 20 min / July 31
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1SP069: Eileen Myles
author of Chelsea Girls, Inferno, Afterglow, Cool For You, & other books 
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.
Listen / 1 hr 22 min / June 22
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1SP068: Miles Lagoze
on Combat Obscura (2019) & his forthcoming book 
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.
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1SP066: Rob Doyle
on Autobibliography (2021),
Threshold (2020), &c.
on Autobibliography (2021),
Threshold (2020), &c.
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 as exorcism, Nietzsche, and quitting drinking.
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1SP065: Jake Hanrahan
of Popular Front on Gargoyle (2021) 
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 fucking real one.
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1SP064: Bud Smith
on Teenager (2022) out now from Vintage 
JERSEY CITY / NYC — Bud Smith is the author of Teenager, out now from Vintage. He is also the author of Double Bird (2018), Work (2017), Calm Face (2016), F250 (2014), and Tollbooth (2013), among other books. He is also a good friend. This convo is from 9 May 2022, 2 nights ago, the night before his novel Teenager dropped. Bless.
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1SP063: Jordan Castro
on The Bible & Paul Tillich, etc. 
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 Giancarlo DiTrapano.
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1SP062: Nico Walker
on Cherry (2018) & Gian DiTrapano (1974–2021) 
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. Here is a collection Tao Lin put together, that I contributed to, on Gian. Here is the Lit Hub article I mentioned in the intro, on the history of Cherry's covers.
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4 Memories
of Giancarlo Ditrapano in The Paris Review 
Read in The Paris Review / April 7
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4 Stories
I edited / pubbed in New York Tyrant 
Read in New York Tyrant / March–April 2021
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1SP061: Brad Phillips
on Essays and Fictions (2018) and what he on now 
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. I felt it was courageous, funny, intimate, deceptively sweet, and formally inventive. Here is a link to the book. Here is a link to the recent story he published on Muumuu House that we reference: . Here is a link to a NYT thing shouting out his instagram.
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1SP060: Shy Watson
on Horror Vacui (2021) and Cheap Yellow (2018) 
NYC — Shy Watson is a poet and novel-writer. Her new book Horror Vacui (2021) dropped last month from House of Vlad. She also wrote Cheap Yellow (CCM, 2018). She lives in NYC.
Cop HORROR VACUI |
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1SP059:
Sheila Heti on all her books (2001–2021) 
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.
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1SP058:
Gian DiTrapano on NY Tyrant (since 2005) 
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.
Read stories buy books at New York Tyrant |
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1SP057:
Vern aka Happy Birthday on The Block (2020) 
HARLEM — I met the homie Vern a minute ago. I see him around all the time. I seem to see him once every couple weeks, like clockwork. Usually when the weather gets nicer suddenly, or nice enough to sit courtside or hoop at this lil park I be hooping at. Whenever we link we always torch one and really go in. Like every time it’s like a pod-length powwow. Today (12.11.20) we were goin in, mildly spleed, when he just started going off and I felt moved to set it down.
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1SP056:
Nicolette Polek on Imaginary Museums (2020) 
DMV / NYC — Nicolette Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) is her first book. I saw Nicolette read from this collection a couple times early this year, and reread it a couple times this past fortnight.
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1SP053:
Steve Anwyll on Welfare (2018) 
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1SP052:
Chelsea Hodson on Tonight I'm Someone Else (2018) 
NYC — Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else (Henry Holt, 2018) and the chapbook Pity the Animal (Future Tense, 2014). She teaches at the Bennington MFA program and at the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Italy and also does private writing consultations. We met at a reading back in December in Bushwick. I read her book a couple times over the past couple months. Buy her book.
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"Crisis of Uselessness"
by Sean Thor Conroe in Vol. 1 Brooklyn 
"Crisis of Uselessness" is a version of a chapter from FUCCBOI: A Novel (forthcoming). Many thanks to Tobias Carroll and the editors at Vol. 1 Brooklyn for running it.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn / 3.4K words / October 4
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1SP051:
Miranda Popkey on Topics of Conversation (2020) 
MASS–NYC — Miranda Popkey (b. 1987) grew up in Santa Cruz, CA. I went to middle and high school in Santa Cruz, CA. I was unaware of this until we talked. I’m glad we talked.
Her debut novel, Topics of Conversation (2020), published by Knopf in January, is an absolute banger. One of the most immediate, intense, complicated books I’ve hit in a minute. I read it slowly, over the summer; and then again, quickly, over the past three days. |
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Scott McClanahan
on The Sarah Book (2017) and Crapalacia (2013) and Hill William (2013) 
NYC / WV — Scott McClanahan (b. 1978) is the author of eight books: Stories (2008), Stories II (2009), Stories V! (2011), The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1 (2012), Crapalachia (2013, Two Dollar Radio), Hill William (2013, Tyrant Books), The Incantations of Daniel Johnston (2016, Two Dollar Radio), and The Sarah Book (2017, Tyrant Books), which NPR called "brave, triumphant and beautiful." It is. They also said "it reads like a fever dream, and it feels like a miracle." It fkn does.
1 hr 5 min / July 30
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Nicola Maye Goldberg
on Sexual Violence and Nothing Can Hurt You (2020) 
UPSTATE NY–HARLEM — Nicola Maye Goldberg is the author of the novella Other Women (Sad Spell, 2016), the chapbook The Doll Factory (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), and, most recently, the novel Nothing Can Hurt You (Bloomsbury, 2020). Cop here. Or here. Nicola's writing.
Shout out Rebecca Godfrey, author of The Torn Skirt (2001) and Under the Bridge (2005), for connecting me to Nicola's writing. iTunes / 1 hr 7 min / July 9
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Jordan Castro 2 (today)
on The Reflective Age, Indecision, Authority and Last Week's Pets (2020) pod 
COLLEGE PARK–HARLEM — Summer solstice sit down with Jordan Castro, editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and Pets: An Anthology, recently out from Tyrant Books. He is the author of Young Americans (CCM 2013) and if I really wanted to feel happy I’d feel happy already (CCM 2014). Recorded today, reflecting on our convo recorded one week ago on Pets (2020) and The Present [Reflective] Age (1843, Tr. Walter Kaufmann) by Kierkegaard. Last week's stab was solid but had to run it back one time, really rip it. Do yourself a solid a cop PETS, it's a banger.
iTunes / 2 hrs / June 21
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Jordan Castro 1 (last Sunday)
on Pets (Tyrant 2020) and The Present Age (1843) by Kierkegaard 
COLLEGE PARK–HARLEM — Jordan Castro is the editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and PETS: An Anthology, recently out from Tyrant Books. 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, Kristen Iskandrian, Yuka Igarashi and Mallory Whitten. I recommend it for anyone who has or had or wants pets.
iTunes / 1 hr 30 min / June 14
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Hobart
"Nudes Story"
Sean Thor Conroe
"Nudes Story"
Sean Thor Conroe
NOT YET (Or: NUDES STORY) — This that recent quick jot, impulse send. 900 words. Originally titled 'Not Yet' but changed to 'Nudes Story' when I realized 'Nudes Story' was what I found myself referring to it as, to people, in the World. Shouts out Hobart og ee for the eyes on this.
Read on Hobart / 900 words / May 27
Andrew Weatherhead
on $50,000 (2020)
and on Wittgenstein also sorta
on $50,000 (2020)
and on Wittgenstein also sorta
NYC — Andrew Weatherhead was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of $50,000 (2020), Todd (2018) and Cats & Dogs (2014). He began writing $50,000 in 2015. I read $50,000 probably four times, each time in a single sitting, over the past fortnight since its release.
Purchase $50,000 from Publishing Genius.
Purchase $50,000 from Publishing Genius.
iTunes / 1 hr 30 min / March 1
New York Tyrant
"Postmate"
Sean Thor Conroe
"Postmate"
Sean Thor Conroe
Short hitter "Postmate" (from FUCCBOI) up now at New York Tyrant. Shout out Jordan and Gian for fkn with this one. Artwork by Chelsea Cater.
New York Tyrant / 1K words / January 20
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The Nervous Breakdown
"Two Quick Hitters" Sean Thor Conroe 
Two quick hitters "Pop-Tart Guy" and "Chucky Mode" up now at The Nervous Breakdown. Shout out Joey Grantham for fkn with these guys.
The Nervous Breakdown / 500 words (x2) / January 9
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1SP042: Al Jacobs
on Jesus' Son (1992) by Denis Johnson 
NYC — Al Jacobs, 30, is an NYC-based writer from Toledo, Ohio. He read the copy of Jesus' Son (1992) I lent him over the past few months. I reread the Picador Modern Classics pocket version i copped after lending him my old version over the same period. Jesus' Son (1992) is a series of interconnected short stories narrated by a guy, "Fuckhead," and follows several recurring characters, all addicts, who engage in drug use, petty crime, and murder. Denis Johnson (1949–2017) published Jesus' Son at the age of 43.
iTunes / 1 hr 20 min / December 31
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1SP041: Harold Rogers
on Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner 
MANHATTAN — Harold, 22, is a writer, standup, and boxer. He grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Steubenville, Ohio. He read Absalom, Absalom! in the fortnight following the death of his paternal grandfather, about a month ago. I read it around the same time, six months after the death of my paternal grandfather.
iTunes / 1 hr 15 min / November 24
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STORIES
"Another Way To Stay Calm" Sean Thor Conroe 
Back Patio / 20 lines / November 6
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1SP040: Bud Smith
on As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner 
JERSEY CITY — Bud Smith is the author of Teenager (Tyrant Books, 2019), Double Bird (Maudlin House, 2018), WORK (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press, 2017), Calm Face (House of Vlad, 2016), among others. He works heavy construction building and destroying chemical plants, refineries, and generating stations.
iTunes / 1 hr 30 min / October 9
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1SP039: Tren W. aka Based Mountain
on Cherry (2018) by Nico Walker 
HARLEM-SYDNEY — Tren W. aka Based Mountain is a writer and poet and editor living in Sydney.
iTunes / 2 hr 7 min / September 9
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N 41ST ST — Convo w my neighbor Glenda, 52. On my last day on the block (07/31/2019), after living there 2 plus yrs.
iTunes / 25 min / August 2
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1SP037: Nicholas Baptiste
on The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) / Jesus' Son (1992) by Tom Wolfe / Denis Johnson 
WEST PHILLY — Nicholas Baptiste is a Philly-based writer, reader, musician, and MFKN LIBRARIAN YO. So sick. We post up on a blasted summer day on Baltimore Ave and powwow off the cuff about a whole gang of shit, returning throughout to our most recent reads: Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) and Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son (1992), respectively. We talk writing processes and what we consider constitutes the best art. Where this leads might be summed up as: that which investigates the difficult, touchy, taboo ideas, without either valorizing or condemning any one version of them.
iTunes / 2 hr. 40 min / July 17
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1SP036: Eric Conroe
on Thrown (2014) by Kerry Howley 
BKLYN-PHILLY — Eric Conroe, 33, is a writer and builder living in Brooklyn. He is the author of the poetry chapbook TOP BLOCKER (2017). He is my cousin.
He read Thrown (2014) by Kerry Howley in a sitting two weeks ago. I read it in multiple sittings a year ago. Kerry Howley, 38, teaches nonfiction at U of Iowa. Thrown is her first book. iTunes / 1 hr. 15 min / May 16
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1SP035:
Dept. of Speculation (2014) Jenny Offill 
SOUTH PHILLY/SOUTH JERSEY — Still asking the same questions about monogamy, marriage, loyalty, child rearing, father/motherhood, the nuclear family, and work v. “love.” Jenny Offill’s Dept of Speculation (2014) charts a relationship from its inception to marriage to childbirth to infidelity. Read in sips over the past three weeks and recorded during my CSA delivery route in South Philly (till I ran outta gas), during my route in South Jersey (after getting more gas), and on the way to the dentist, on foot, the following morning. Sound quality turned out surprisingly decent.
iTunes / 1 hr. 40 min / April 28
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Shouts out Expat Press editor Manuel Marrero for showing this piece love.
Expat Press / 500 words / April 13
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1SP034: Aaron Dockser
on The Gay Science (1887) Friedrich Nietzsche 
PHILLY VIA BOSTON — Special Lent pod with the homie Aaron, 28 (1SP episodes 003 and 015), during his weekend visit to Philly from Boston. About criticism, keeping silent, editing, Lent, rules, writing about the body, social integration, community, marriage/family, cults, how a person should be, civic unity, and The Gay Science. Read is blog. He's got some recent poems up about a hitchhiking trip he took around Scotland late last year.
iTunes / 1 hr. / March 11
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1SP033:
The Spirit of Science Fiction (2019) Roberto Bolaño 
iTunes / 1 hr / February 21
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STORIES
"A Seat In The Circle" Sean Thor Conroe 
Shout out Soft Cartel editors @basedmtn and @cavinbgonzalez
Soft Cartel / 2.5K words / February 18
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" POD "
1storypod (2017–Present) — Conversations between recommender and recommendee of a book or artwork; about why it was recommended. Hosted by Sean Thor Conroe.
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1SP027: Gina Myers
Philadelphia (2017)
Gina Myers
Philadelphia (2017)
Gina Myers
POD / 1 hr. 15 min. / October 24
1SP026: Sean C.
My Struggle: Book Six (2018)
Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle: Book Six (2018)
Karl Ove Knausgaard
POD / 1 hr. / October 18
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1SP025: Nick J.
Less (2017) Andrew Sean Greer 
WOODLANDS CEMETERY — Nick, 27, is a writer, poet, and teacher living in Philadelphia. He read Less (2017) over the past fortnight. I read it over the summer. Andrew Sean Greer (b. 1970) is an identical twin. Less, which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is his fifth novel and sixth book. He lives in San Francisco.
@stconroe / POD / September 17
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STORIES:
"Michael" Sean Thor Conroe 
PHILLY — Shouts out Jennifer and Chris over at XRAY Literary Magazine for publishing my short story, "Michael" (1750 words, ~8 minute read), as part of their upcoming Issue 7. "Michael" is about the homie Michael, from S. Berkeley; about how he's out here in these streets; about rain and shelters and cats.
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PHILLY — Convos between recommender and recommendee of a book or artwork; about why it was recommended.
Sean C. / POD / May 2017–Present
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1SP024: Nicholas
Don Quixote (1615) Miguel de Cervantes 
WEST PHILLY — Nicholas lives, and has for “about six years,” in West Philly. He is originally from Seattle. He read Don Quixote (1615) recently, finishing it within the past fortnight. I read the first half in the summer of 2016 and the second half in the fall of 2017. Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) published the first part Don Quixote in 1605, and the second in 1615, which he dedicated to his patron, Don Pedro de Castro (1576–1622), the count of Lemos.
@stconroe / POD / May 24
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MANHATTAN — Daoud, 26, is an Oakland-based producer whose work lives on the Internet @daoudmakesmusic (Soundcloud). He began working on Saba's second album Care For Me (2018) with Saba and co-producer @daedaepivot last fall. I listened to Care For Me about 1x daily since its April 5 release. This conversation was recorded before and after Saba's April 13 tour stop at Highline Ballroom in New York City.
Sean C. / POD / April 24
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NEWS:
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1SP022: Beth B.
My Brilliant Friend (2012) Elena Ferrante 
KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Beth, 25, was born and raised in Franklin, Kentucky. She has worked in nonprofit food distribution for the past two years, and is interested in the intersection between food and place. She read My Brilliant Friend (2012) over this past winter; I did over this past fall. Follow her @bethbee18. Intro song: 'super focused (prod. gezi) by canals x yamz.
Sean C. / POD / March 18
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SAN JUAN, P.R. — Viva aka YaMZ, 26, is a freelance contractor, rapper and videographer currently living in San Juan. He recorded TSA APPROVED YAMZ (2018) on the night of January 9, 2018, and released the three-track EP on January 12. He shot the full-length music video late February in Costa Rica and released it March 10. Read his blog: http://bumsum.net
Sean C. / POD / March 11
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ATHENS, N.Y. / BAY AREA, Calif. — Shiina, 25, is a massage healer and singer-songwriter splitting time between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. She first discovered Big Magic (2016) about a year ago. I read it over this past Christmas and finished it right before the new year. This episode is dedicated to Elizabeth Gilbert's late partner, Rayya Elias (1960–2018).
Sean C. / POD / January 11
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]SYDNEY — Tren, 31, is a poet living in Sydney. Read his poems: goo.gl/3dU3tj. Or follow him: twitter.com/basedmtn. Tao Lin was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1983. His next book, Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change is forthcoming from Vintage in May. Referenced essay: marc-degens.de/all-my-ex-friends/.
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1SP018: Nick & Zac J.
On Auto-Fiction (1960-Present) Walker Percy, Elena Ferrante, K.O. Knausgaard 
S. PHILLY — 1SP vets Nick, 27, and Zac, 27, on auto-fiction: what it is, who does it most compellingly, where it might be headed. Texts we consider: Walker Percy's The Moviegoer (1961), Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, and Karl Ove Knausgaard's recent/forthcoming seasonal quartet.
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BED-STUY — Eric, 31, is a poet, modern dancer, and carpenter living in Brooklyn. His chapbook, TOP BLOCKER, is now available from GAUSS PDF. I've read TOP BLOCKER a number of times over the past months, since its release. Order/read TOP BLOCKER here: goo.gl/VMpi1x. Eric tweets @ejconroe.
Sho Thor / POD / November 26
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1SP016: Sam R.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) Hunter S. Thompson 
PHILLY — Sam, 27, is a political organizer and ceramic artist living in Philadelphia. He first read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream in high school. I first read it about six weeks ago. Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1937) served briefly in the U.S. Air Force before moving into journalism. He shot himself, at 67, in 2005.
Sho Thor / POD / November 18
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PHILLY — Aaron, 26, is a reader and writer of poetry living in Philadelphia. He discovered Hera Lindsay Bird while visiting New Zealand last month. I read Hera Lindsay Bird (Victoria University Press) twice over the past week. Hera Lindsay Bird (b. 1987) was born and raised in Thames, New Zealand. This, her first book, won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award.
Sho Thor / POD / November 7
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1SP014: Tren W.
Witch Piss (2014) Sam Pink 
SYDNEY — Tren, 31, is a reader and writer living in Sydney, Australia. He grew up in Redfern, an inner-city suburb on Sydney's outskirts. He reread Witch Piss (Lazy Fascist Press) over the past week, though first discovered Sam Pink's books five years ago. I first read Witch Piss over the past week. Sam Pink lives in Chicago and plays in the band Depressed Woman.
Sho Thor / POD / October 22
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1SP013: Nick J.
My Brilliant Friend (2012) Elena Ferrante 
PHILLY — Nick, 26, lives in Los Angeles, where he writes and teaches. He first read My Brilliant Friend "a few months ago." I read it over the past fortnight, finishing it moments before this conversation. Elena Ferrante is a pseudonym; and while there is considerable debate about her "real" identity, it has been inferred, based on her interviews and letters, that she "is a mother, and is not now married."
S. Thor / POD / September 28
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1SP012: Takako K.
Almost Transparent Blue (1976) Ryu Murakami 
LOS ANGELES — Takako is a Waldorf teacher living in L.A. She first read Almost Transparent Blue while a student at Tokyo Daigaku, at twentyish. I first read it (tr. Nancy Andrew) maybe a month ago and have reread it since. Ryu Murakami was born (1952) and raised in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. He wrote Almost Transparent Blue while studying sculpture at Musashino Art University in Tokyo.
S. Thor / POD / September 21
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1SP011: Char S.W.
The Argonauts (2015) / HSAPB? (2010) Maggie Nelson / Sheila Heti 
CLARK PARK — Charlotte, 24, is an herbalist living in Philadelphia. She first read The Argonauts this past winter and How Should A Person Be? this past spring. I first read the Argonauts last Fall and How Should A Person Be? maybe three years ago, and twice since. Maggie Nelson (b. 1973) lives with her partner Harry and their child. Sheila Heti is the creator of Trampoline Hall, a lecture series.
S. Thor / POD / September 14
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1SP010: Zac J.
The Possibility of an Island (2005) Michel Houellebecq 
S. PHILLY — 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 was born, in 1956, on the French island of Reunion. He had a child in 1980, shortly after marrying, though quickly "grew depressed," took up poetry, and divorced.
Sean C. / POD / August 22
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1SP009: Beth B.
How Should a Person Be? (2010) Sheila Heti 
W. PHILLY — Beth, 24, was born and raised in Kentucky, lives in Philadelphia, and works in nonprofit food distribution. She read How Should a Person Be? over the past couple months, mostly while at jury duty and while on a train. I first read it in late 2014, re-listened to it on audiobook over the past week, mostly while biking. Sheila Heti, 40, conducts and edits interviews for the Believer.
Sean C. / POD / August 18
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1SP008: Chelsea C.
The Wallcreeper (2014) Nell Zink 
BUSHWICK — Chelsea, 25, was born in Hawaii, grew up in California, and lives, paints, and works in New York City. She first read The Wallcreeper "one or two" years ago. I finished it a week ago. Nell Zink was born in 1964, in California. In 1993, while living in West Philly, she founded a zine called Animal Review, which featured interviews with musicians about their pets. She has been married twice.
Sean C. / POD / August 8
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W. PHILLY — AXOLOTL, a "type beat" tape in three parts, charts the evolution of the young male axolotl, from larval to adult—though sexually immature—stages. Itscana1s and Yamz would like to thank each of the producers: 1. greafer; 2. Kid Ocean; 3. CorMill; 4. Joseph L'Etranger; 5. 6-6-6; 6. DJ Khaled's Son x Caceci's Beats; 7. Caceci's Beats; 8. instupendo; 9. drip-133;10. sadface :(
Itscanals / RAPS / June 16
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1SP006: Viva H.
On Truth and Untruth (2010) Friedrich Nietzsche 
W. PHILLY — Viva, 25, currently lives in Philly, raps as Yamz, and works at a compost company. He first read On Truth and Untruth this morning. I started reading it last fall, finished it this past winter. 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.
Sean C. / POD / June 9
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1SP005: Leah G.
On Hashish (2006) Walter Benjamin 
W. PHILLY — Leah, 25, is a writer and installation artist interested in, amongst other things, aqueducts. She read On Hashish over the past ten days. I began slowly ingesting On Hashish this past winter, following season of work in Northern Californian agriculture. I finished it ten days ago. Walter Benjamin (d. 1940) was born in 1882, in Berlin.
Sean C. / POD / June 1
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1SP004: Zac J.
My Struggle: Book Five Karl Ove Knausgaard 
S. PHILLY — Zac, 26, is an art curator living in Philadelphia. He first encountered the My Struggle series a few years back, upon finding Book One on the floor of his then-girlfriend’s apartment. I first encountered the My Struggle series circa 2014 I wanna say. Karl Ove Knausgaard, 48, was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1968. He began writing the series in 2008, six years after the death of his father.
Sean C. / POD / May 29
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1SP003: Aaron D.
Steppenwolf (1927) Hermann Hesse 
Sean C. / POD / May 25
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1SP002: Viva H.
Food of the Gods (1992) Terence McKenna 
PHILADELPHIA — Viva, 25, grew up in a treehouse in Santa Cruz, Calif., writes raps (as Yamz), travelogues, and aspires to revolutionize urban composting. He first read Food of the Gods circa 2014. Terence McKenna (1946–2000) first encountered psilocybin mushrooms at 25, in the Colombian Amazon, on a trip initially in search of DMT. He died of a rare form of brain cancer.
Sean C. / POD / May 22
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1SP001: Paul L.
The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973) Italo Calvino 
W. PHILLY — Paul, 27, of Cambridge, Mass., writes literary science fiction, and, until recently, worked as a caretaker in a psychiatric ward. He first encountered The Castle of Crossed Destinies eight years ago. Italo Calvino (1923–1985), was raised in Siena, Italy. He wrote The Castle of Crossed Destinies between 1940 and 1969.
Sean C. / POD / May 6
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RAPS:
WOKE ASS WOOK (11 songs, 35 minutes)
canals x yamz
WOKE ASS WOOK (11 songs, 35 minutes)
canals x yamz
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NORTH COAST, Calif. — Recorded entirely during the final fortnight of a summer-long freelance work stint in Northern Californian agriculture, during which off-the-record, hook-centric freestyle sessions commenced nightly, WOKE ASS WOOK highlights those conceptual refrains most unwilling to be forgotten—those having accumulated the most significance over Time. Critics are calling WAW "perhaps the greatest mixtape ever recorded in a Box Van." Others have called WAW's adlib-game "unreal, certifiably Tourettesical."
Itscanals / RAPS / January 16