1storypod Sean Thor Conroe

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.

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.

From paywalled Oct 2023 new moon eclipse video ep "Confessions" w/ Harold Rogers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/confessions-w-92292166?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

First Love by Gwendoline Riley: https://www.amazon.com/First-Love-Gwendoline-Riley/dp/1612196268

Harold Rogers wrote Tropicalia: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic%C3%A1lia-Novel-Harold-Rogers/dp/1668013878

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi.

Full hourlong video ep "Confessions" with Harold Rogers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/confessions-w-92292166

On our own books, literary confession, diary writing, Gilbert Sorrentino, Gwendoline Riley, Jack Houghteling, Drake, Borges, Alphabetical Diaries, and Andrew Martin.

Tropicalia by Harold Rogers: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic%C3%A1lia-Novel-Harold-Rogers/dp/1668013878/ref=monarch_sidesheet

Alphabetical Diaries (FSG, 2/6/24): https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610784/alphabeticaldiaries

Early Work (2018) by Andrew Martin: https://www.amazon.com/Early-Work-Novel-Andrew-Martin/dp/1250215013/ref=monarch_sidesheet

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZsC5v8Tan4&t=54s

"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, video ep incoming: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

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