HARLEM-SYDNEY — Yo so I fucked with this book heavy. Obviously initially for the hype surrounding its backstory—homie Nico going to war, getting fucked up, getting hooked on opioids, robbing banks, getting caught, going to jail, still in jail now! (till 2020 i think) But the thing is it's written mad well too, on some Denis Johnson voice-driven type shit. Not to mention how in he goes, merking himself for all the wild shit he did. Not to mention how well it captures the petty drug trade in a bleak midwestern spot like outer Cleveland, where it's set. Just fire, all around, this one. Shouts out Gian from Tyrant Books and all the other editors who brought this thing to the world.
Tren W. aka Based Mountain is a writer and poet and editor living in Sydney.
Tren W. aka Based Mountain is a writer and poet and editor living in Sydney.
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"Cor Blimey!" by Tren
Intro song: "when i die" by yamz
CONTENTS
5 min - pod start
11 min - Bolaño and living your art
15 min - on mfa/academic writing
18 min- on Writing how u talk v. Writing in convo w the canon
21 min - on writers as brands
28 min - on types of addiction/ptsd
35 min - on the problems of war / the ironies of counter-insurgency
41 min - on masculine belligerence
46 min - on the savagery of masculinity
48 min - on fraternal flexing
49 min - whole lotta gang shit
50 min - Emily’s side of the story
52 min - dissecting my shame
56 min - on the marriage ideal
59 min - no guys are good guys
1 hr 2 min - pharmaceutical drugs are drugs
1 hr 4 min - when you’ve been fucked up you judge/condemn ppl less
1 hr 27 min - on bathroom stall graffiti / Moche pottery
1 hr 30 min - my misogyny has to do w my feeling of ownership
1 hr 31 min - on “fuck You” by Eamon and that "fuck you right back" song lmao
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REFERENCED QUOTES
Acting tough. "The whole time I was trying to act like I was tough because I thought I was touch and I was supposed to be tough. But I wasn't. And I can tell you now that there are so many things better than to try and be touch, not the least of which is to be young and fuck your girl and leave it at that" (73).
Financial independence. "We were older now; we both had money saved and we both had our jobs and we were very much on our own" (96).
Financial codependence. "All I could say was I'd be back soon. I didn't recognize that this was something she maybe wasn't looking forward to, even though I knew, and I'd known the whole time. Still you hold with the lie.
"I paid her tuition for fall semester" (181).
Fraternal flexing. "We made eye contact; and I said, 'I got you.'
"I said it real loud so he could hear me over the helicopters. And then I was embarrassed because it was a stupid and melodramatic thing to have said and I had said it" (103).
On getting saved. "She was fucking gorgeous and so cool.
"I'd fucked her before. Maybe I could fuck her again.
"Maybe that would save me" (218).
On not condemning people. "Manny definitely was a police informant and a lot of people went to jail. Like Ari. [...] This was a shitty thing that Manny did to Ari" (243).
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Sean Thor Conroe is a writer and carpenter living in Harlem. Bars in X-R-A-Y, Soft Cartel, Expat Lit; coming from Philosophical Idiot, BULL Lit.
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<<1SP038: My neighbor Glenda on taking Ls but bouncing back (2019) by Sean Thor Conroe
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<<1SP014: Tren W on WITCH PISS (2014) by Sam Pink
Intro song: "when i die" by yamz
CONTENTS
5 min - pod start
11 min - Bolaño and living your art
15 min - on mfa/academic writing
18 min- on Writing how u talk v. Writing in convo w the canon
21 min - on writers as brands
28 min - on types of addiction/ptsd
35 min - on the problems of war / the ironies of counter-insurgency
41 min - on masculine belligerence
46 min - on the savagery of masculinity
48 min - on fraternal flexing
49 min - whole lotta gang shit
50 min - Emily’s side of the story
52 min - dissecting my shame
56 min - on the marriage ideal
59 min - no guys are good guys
1 hr 2 min - pharmaceutical drugs are drugs
1 hr 4 min - when you’ve been fucked up you judge/condemn ppl less
1 hr 27 min - on bathroom stall graffiti / Moche pottery
1 hr 30 min - my misogyny has to do w my feeling of ownership
1 hr 31 min - on “fuck You” by Eamon and that "fuck you right back" song lmao
#
REFERENCED QUOTES
Acting tough. "The whole time I was trying to act like I was tough because I thought I was touch and I was supposed to be tough. But I wasn't. And I can tell you now that there are so many things better than to try and be touch, not the least of which is to be young and fuck your girl and leave it at that" (73).
Financial independence. "We were older now; we both had money saved and we both had our jobs and we were very much on our own" (96).
Financial codependence. "All I could say was I'd be back soon. I didn't recognize that this was something she maybe wasn't looking forward to, even though I knew, and I'd known the whole time. Still you hold with the lie.
"I paid her tuition for fall semester" (181).
Fraternal flexing. "We made eye contact; and I said, 'I got you.'
"I said it real loud so he could hear me over the helicopters. And then I was embarrassed because it was a stupid and melodramatic thing to have said and I had said it" (103).
On getting saved. "She was fucking gorgeous and so cool.
"I'd fucked her before. Maybe I could fuck her again.
"Maybe that would save me" (218).
On not condemning people. "Manny definitely was a police informant and a lot of people went to jail. Like Ari. [...] This was a shitty thing that Manny did to Ari" (243).
#
Sean Thor Conroe is a writer and carpenter living in Harlem. Bars in X-R-A-Y, Soft Cartel, Expat Lit; coming from Philosophical Idiot, BULL Lit.
#
Previous
<<1SP038: My neighbor Glenda on taking Ls but bouncing back (2019) by Sean Thor Conroe
Related
<<1SP014: Tren W on WITCH PISS (2014) by Sam Pink
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