NYC-MICHIGAN — Sam Pink is the author of the novels Person (2010), The No Hellos Diet (2011), Rontel (2013), Witch Piss (2014), Garbage Times / White Ibis (Soft Skull, 2018), and the collections Ice Cream Man & Other Stories (Soft Skull, 2020) and Early Stuff (11:11, 2020)—which includes his 2009 debut I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It—and 99 Poems . . . (Clash, 2019), among others. He slangs his paintings and early books via IG dm @sam_pink_art, holler at him.
I first encountered Sam Pink’s writing in 2017, when the homie and ex Soft Cartel (rip) editor Tren aka Based MTN recommended Witch Piss, which we immediate-react podded on. I’ve since read just about all Pink’s shit. I contacted him earlier this month about getting at one of his paintings, and our subsequent correspondence led to this pod. V psyched and grateful to Sam for being such a G, and for continuing to push this fire art.
I first encountered Sam Pink’s writing in 2017, when the homie and ex Soft Cartel (rip) editor Tren aka Based MTN recommended Witch Piss, which we immediate-react podded on. I’ve since read just about all Pink’s shit. I contacted him earlier this month about getting at one of his paintings, and our subsequent correspondence led to this pod. V psyched and grateful to Sam for being such a G, and for continuing to push this fire art.
SoundCloud / iTunes / 1 hr 35 min / May 8
CONTENTS
3 min - pod start
4 min - We out here. In the world
6 min - on how so prolific
9 min - You can’t say everything (anything) say one thing
11 min - on concision / chopping up
14 min - on talking through your stories
19 min - SP a journal writer / journalist / confederacy of dunces
21 min - mythical stories are all mish reports / Rontel as an Odyssey
22 min - swording / shielding up ⚔️
25 min - BBDB / McFlurries / hashing shit out is generative
29 min - writer vs. word-scratcher Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau / humility
31 min - Being a writer not bein a mystical god its being a plumber
32 min - obligatory Bolaño rant
36 min - Animals / empathy / Levinas
39 min - reliance on / detachment from the ecosystem
41 min - Animals as symbols
44 min - Thoth / Ibis / pea head
48 min - current work
50 min - evolution of online lit since aughts
59 min - sharing art is shooting out sonar signals
1 hr 2 min - Early Stuff
1 hr 7 min - Humor
1 hr 8 min - McClanahan
1 hr 12 min - ‘you gotta wanna be good but you also are only whatever you are’
1 hr 13 min - important to indulge the asshole in you
1 hr 19 min - bravado underrated when you need it
1 hr 23 min - Keith!
1 hr 24 min - dual Person (2010) chapters
1 hr 34 min - pod end
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EXCERPTS
From Person (2010) in Muumuu House
From White Ibis (2018) in LitHub
From Garbage Times (2018) in New York Tyrant
From 99 Poems . . . (2019) in New York Tyrant
From Ice Cream Man (2020) in LitHub
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Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.
@stconroe
@seanthorconroe
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3 min - pod start
4 min - We out here. In the world
6 min - on how so prolific
9 min - You can’t say everything (anything) say one thing
11 min - on concision / chopping up
14 min - on talking through your stories
19 min - SP a journal writer / journalist / confederacy of dunces
21 min - mythical stories are all mish reports / Rontel as an Odyssey
22 min - swording / shielding up ⚔️
25 min - BBDB / McFlurries / hashing shit out is generative
29 min - writer vs. word-scratcher Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau / humility
31 min - Being a writer not bein a mystical god its being a plumber
32 min - obligatory Bolaño rant
36 min - Animals / empathy / Levinas
39 min - reliance on / detachment from the ecosystem
41 min - Animals as symbols
44 min - Thoth / Ibis / pea head
48 min - current work
50 min - evolution of online lit since aughts
59 min - sharing art is shooting out sonar signals
1 hr 2 min - Early Stuff
1 hr 7 min - Humor
1 hr 8 min - McClanahan
1 hr 12 min - ‘you gotta wanna be good but you also are only whatever you are’
1 hr 13 min - important to indulge the asshole in you
1 hr 19 min - bravado underrated when you need it
1 hr 23 min - Keith!
1 hr 24 min - dual Person (2010) chapters
1 hr 34 min - pod end
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EXCERPTS
From Person (2010) in Muumuu House
From White Ibis (2018) in LitHub
From Garbage Times (2018) in New York Tyrant
From 99 Poems . . . (2019) in New York Tyrant
From Ice Cream Man (2020) in LitHub
#
Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.
@stconroe
@seanthorconroe
#
Previous
<<1SP045: Big Bruiser Dope Boy on Life in the Time of Rona (2020)
Related
<<1SP043: Cavin Bryce Gonzalez on I Could Be Your Neighbor, Isn't That Horrifying? (2020) and Sam Pink
<<1SP014: Tren W. aka Based MTN on Witch Piss (2014) by Sam Pink (October 2017)
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