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Author: Sean Thor Conroe

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A podcast about literature by Sean Thor Conroe, author of Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912
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156. Paul Was A Gooner

156. Paul Was A Gooner

2025-12-1901:07:00

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
155. Love and Greatness

155. Love and Greatness

2025-12-0501:04:14

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

152. Men of Nowhere

2025-11-1301:04:19

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/
151. Ecclesiastes

151. Ecclesiastes

2025-10-2601:05:00

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
Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

2025-10-2305:06

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.
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
149. Combat Cameras w/ Miles Lagoze by Sean Thor Conroe
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
147. Infinite Pod

147. Infinite Pod

2025-08-2501:00:10

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
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.
Max Lawton stopped by to talk translating Schattenfroh, out this month from Deep Vellum . Third hour incoming: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
BLAST 2 MANIFESTO

BLAST 2 MANIFESTO

2025-08-0608:13

READ: https://blast2mag.substack.com/p/blast-2-manifesto?utm_source=activity_item BLAST2MAG@GMAIL.COM
144 - BLAST 2 *CLIP*

144 - BLAST 2 *CLIP*

2025-08-0112:30

FULL HOUR on Philip II, Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, Go Down Moses by Faulkner, The Venerable Bede, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, eviction, BLAST 2 TENETS: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod HAROLD ROGERS and SEAN THOR CONROE on 31 JULY 2025 in NYC.
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
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.
142. Earthly Delights

142. Earthly Delights

2025-07-1701:04:25

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
Read along: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-2-sean-thor-conroe?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Part 1: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-1-funeral-family-travel-history?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Patrick McGraw comes by to talk the new issue (6) of Heavy Traffic. Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
With Matthew Gasda, author of the novel Sleepers and the play Dimes Square, full ep: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
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