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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Author of Tantrums and Ritual and Anatomy Courses (w/ Blake Butler) and foremost alt lit historian Sean Kilpatrick comes on the pod to talk literature.Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod |Sean Kilpatrick: https://anorexicchlorinesextoymuseum.blogspot.com/By Sean Thor Conroe
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On Sam Pink, Scheming, and Slander (draft)
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Read the final draft: https://seanthorconroe.substack.com/p/on-sam-pink-scheming-and-slanderBy Sean Thor Conroe
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Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod |Event this Saturday, 7/13, in Philly: https://www.instagram.com/american_grammar/?hl=en |Tropicalia by Harold Rogers: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013878 |VIdeo clip: https://youtu.be/Jh3D0k16T90By Sean Thor Conroe
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Very rare free ep for Independence Day. Intro (14 min) on vulnerability, whether books should instruct, Dante.1 hour 33 min convo with Sotce on "selling out," materialism, internet hate.Sotce 1: https://soundcloud.com/1storypod/sotce-51524-1107-pm?si=394d8537a27745cb8bf06dbc805dd162&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing |…
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Full 4-hour ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-first-pod-w-106641402?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkHonor Levy's first book MY FIRST BOOK out now.Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel FUCCBOI.Related: Ep. 58 with the late great editor and publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano (1/2021): https:/…
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Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodPart Two in Sean and Harold's Dante series.Harold's novel Tropicalia out in paperback Tuesday: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8SjgFVO1M5/?hl=en&img_index=1By Sean Thor Conroe
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105. Yung Bratz w/ Gabriel Smith (first hour)
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Full 2 hours: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodGabriel Smith wrote Brat, out now from Penguin.Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.By Sean Thor Conroe
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Harold rants about Sally Rooney, courage, and La Batarde by Violette Leduc (1964, Dalkey): https://www.patreon.com/1storypodTropicalia out in paperback 6/25: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013885Sean Thor Conroe wrote Fuccboi.By Sean Thor Conroe
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Stephanie LaCava wrote Superrationals (Semiotexte, 2020), I Fear My Pain Interests You (Verso, 2022), and is the founder of Small Press.Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodStephanie: https://www.instagram.com/stephanielacava/Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/?hl=enIntro song by Thomas Thatcher:…
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Part one of 2.5 hour podcast with Sotce on The Jataka Tales: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodSotce is a spiritual influencer and writer and artist: https://www.instagram.com/sotce/Sean Thor Conroe is an American writer: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/By Sean Thor Conroe
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Why is Odysseus in Hell?From Patreon Ascension Sunday ep on Dante's Inferno, Vita Nuova by Dante, Dante: Poet of the Secular World (1929) by Erich Auerbach, and The Obscene Bird of the Night (1973) by Jose Donoso.https://www.patreon.com/posts/im-like-dante-fr-104208398?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm…
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100. Solar Eclipse Faulkner Pod w/ Harold Rogers
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Solar eclipse eve (April 7) centennial ep with Harold on The Sound and the Fury, Madame Bovary, the Book of Samuel and the Gospels.Intro correction: Faulkner was born 1897, not 1899.Read Tropicalia, which Rivka Galchen called "Intense, tender, and wise": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013878Fuccboi: https://w…
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Full 1 hr 44 min phone pod w/ Little Tank, formerly known as Savage Chkild (cf. pp 103-107 of Fuccboi): https://www.patreon.com/posts/99-greedy-love-w-102304701?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link |Little Tank is the author, most recently, of Russian Summer."Misanthropy comes of an all …
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98. The Company We Keep w/ Andrew Martin
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Andrew Martin (Early Work, Cool For America) and Sean Thor Conroe on Mary McCarthy's 1942 novel The Company She Keeps.Video: https://youtu.be/0ZSj8HaaoK8 |Bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/posts/company-we-keep-101792415?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link |Mary McCarthy essay: https:…
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96. Everything is Totally Fine w/ Zac Smith
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Zac Smith and Sean Thor Conroe discuss Zac's book Everything Is Totally Fine (Muumuu House, 2022). Video: https://youtu.be/T3fq2DNPLiMPart 2 (audio & video): https://www.patreon.com/1storypodEverything is Totally Fine: https://muumuuhouse.com/zacsmith.htmlIntro song: '7 years' by Thomas Thatcher: https://soundcloud.com/thomas55350/7-years?in=thomas…
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95. Harold Rogers on Mathias Enard (Zone, Compass, Gravediggers)
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Harold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe on Mathias Enard's novels: Zone (2008), Compass (2015), and The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild (2021). Video: https://youtu.be/cED8XUaQ_lwPart 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/gravediggers-w-100391153?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link…
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Author and Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly and Sean Thor Conroe discuss addiction, Geoff’s book Someone Who Isn’t Me (2023), recovery, and whether or not they are Hitler/the devil.Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwH9454ajsg |Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/harsh-w-geoff-pt-99940174?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campa…
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93. Hbd Houellebecq w/ Dean Kissick
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With art and culture writer Dean Kissick on The Map and the Territory (2010). From the evening of February 26, 2024, Houellebecq's 68th birthday (unintentionally), happy birthday Houellebecq.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US62aRuKD3E | patreon.com/1storypodBy Sean Thor Conroe
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Solo walking pod to and around the pond in central park on the Gospels, Alphabetical Diaries, and The Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger's Guild.https://www.patreon.com/posts/alphabetical-2-98982729?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkBy Sean Thor Conroe
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Ep. 91 - This Podcast is a Gun. With Liver Mush (2021) and I Have A Gun (3/2024) author Graham Irvin.FULL 2 HRS: https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-podcast-is-97758663?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkLiver Mush: https://backpatiopress.bigcartel.com/product/liver-mush-by-graham-irvin-…
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Solo walking pod along the east river on 1.21.24 at 4:44 pm.FULL HOUR: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pluto-in-solo-96947744Pluto in Aquarius (0:00); X-R-A-Y Magazine (10:00); “Smoking a cig and day drinking in the park” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6uv7Fpo727U&t=925s (15:55); the Podcast isn’t dead / blurbs (27:22); galleys (29:00).…
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Literature discussion with Harold Rogers (author of Tropicalia) and Sean Thor Conroe (Fuccboi) on The Third Reich (1989) by Bolaño (00:14), St. Thomas Aquinas (7 min), Father Antonio Vieira (12 min), Katt Williams (17 min), Septology by Jon Fosse (27 min), Agora Agora (89 chapters - 31 min), The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer (33 min), and…
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Full hour: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88-nye-bonus-day-95604677?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkPossibly my favorite podcast ep ever. With Harold Rogers. Read his novel Tropicalia. Works/writers mentioned: Grimmish by Michael Winkler, Simone Weil, The Possibility of an Island, Mul…
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The Renaissance After the Plague by Giancarlo DiTrapano (reading) + intro on Grief
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Intro on grief and truth and the origins of Gian's piece (~16 min).The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bgo115IikVice piece Gian mentions: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5gqymd/how-psychedelics-helped-me-deal-with-excruciating-cluster-headachesGian's writing on Vice (2009-2016): https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/giancarlo-ditrapanoSean T…
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Tao Lin reading 5 poems at the Russian Samovar [11.14.23]
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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.By Sean Thor Conroe
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84. October Full Moon Pod with Harold Rogers
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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/leNmw2kTlEsFull 2-hour ep: https://www.p…
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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_linkFirst Love by Gwendoline Riley: https://www.amazon.com/First-Love-Gwendoline-Riley/dp/1612196268Harold Rogers wrote T…
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83. Harold confesses / Every Novel is a History of Iniquities [clip]
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Full hourlong video ep "Confessions" with Harold Rogers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/confessions-w-92292166On 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-Ha…
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"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_dpFrom 10.27.23 eclipse pod w Harold: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodBy Sean Thor Conroe
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82. Proust is Autofiction w/ Babak Lakghomi
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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 / Tyrant6 min - on South (Dundern Press)7 min - on David Markson 8 min - fragments9 min - a…
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Spoke on some shit. With New Millennium Boyz (2023) author Alex Kazemi. Full moon in Aries. -STCwww.alexkazemi.comhttps://1storyhaus.com/1stories.htmlBy Sean Thor Conroe
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80. The Provisional vs. the Providential w/ Matthias Bormuth
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Ep. 80: With philosopher, author, and Auerbach scholar Matthias Bormuth (b.1963), a professor of Comparative Intellectual History at University of Oldenburg. On Erich Auerbach's MIMESIS: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946), and how it was influenced by the great Neapolitan thinker Giambattista Vico's NEW SCIENCE (1744).I firs…
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79. I'm Like Salinger Fr w/ Harold Rogers
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On Franny and Zooey, Crime and Punishment, Nine Stories, Brothers Karamazov, Absalom, Absalom and the Gospels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFv_OUiwdM4Notes: Sean on Salinger, Crime & Punishment (0:55); referenced Salinger essay https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/06/christ-like-holden-caulfield (4:55); Mary & Martha (11:55); Harold on CBS …
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78. Nazi Literature in the Americas (1996) w/ Ellie L. *CLIP*
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From 11/22. On reactionary Literature in a sort of timeless way, so figured I'd leak it. Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nazi-literature-88342741?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkBy Sean Thor Conroe
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NYC — My dad, 66, is an English teacher at a Waldorf school in Japan. This pod happened during our first in-person meeting in four years. On expatriation, self awareness, Dasein, existentialism, Rudolf Steiner, and the mission of America.Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi (2022).By Sean Thor Conroe
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76. Harold Rogers on TROPICÁLIA (2023)
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NYC - Harold Rogers, 26, is a standup, boxing coach, and novelist. He is the author of Tropicalia (2023), out now from Atria: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic%C3%A1lia-Novel-Harold-Rogers/dp/1668013878/ref=monarch_sidesheetSean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi (2022): https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912/ref=tmm_pap_…
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NYC — Sam Lipsyte 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).By Sean Thor Conroe
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Fuccboi As Self Help w/ Stephen Adubato
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NYC — Interviewed by Stephen Adubato for his podcast Cracks in Postmodernity. We talk about this review he wrote on Fuccboi in City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/article/reality-check . Good dude. Last Fuccboi centric pod, just talking to other writers about their writing from now on.Artwork: Fuccboi, Oil on canvas, 20” x 20” by Phoebe Clem…
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73: Philip Weinstein on Becoming Faulkner (2010)
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MARTHA’S VINEYARD — Drove up the coast to talk to Philip Weinstein (b. 1940), former head of the American Faulkner society, author of Unknowing (2005), Becoming Faulkner (2010), What Else But Love? (1996), Soul Error (2021), and editor of the Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (1995).By Sean Thor Conroe
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Megan Nolan on Acts of Desperation (2021) *CLIP*
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Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypodMegan Nolan and Sean Thor Conroe on their respective novels Acts of Desperation (2021) and Fuccboi (2022).By Sean Thor Conroe
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NYC — Paul Dalla Rosa is a 30-year-old writer from Melbourne, Australia. His first book, a short story collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (2022), is out now. The title story, "The Hard Thing," that we reference in the convo, was initially published on New York Tyrant. Paul is a graduate of Mors Tua Vita Mea, the writing workshop Chelsea H…
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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 autism, leaky gut, organ meats, liver king, lashing out on friends, and whether partnership societ…
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Tao Lin on The Chalice and the Blade (1987) *CLIP*
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Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/liver-kings-w-69859428?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creatorNYC/HAWAII — Leave Society (2021), Trip (2018), and Taipei (2013) author Tao Lin on The Chalice and the Blade (1987), liver king, partnership vs. dominator societies, Jesus, awe, wonder, and whether partnership s…
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A BENCH IN 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.Pod contents: 4 min - Marija Gimbutas.9 min - Egyptian book of the dead / Afterglow (2017) / reincarnation…
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68: Miles Lagoze on COMBAT OBSCURA (2019)
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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.Combat Obscura trailer: https://youtu.be/pkaTGGwwvSIBook excerpt: https://www.theparisrevie…
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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, Nietzsche, and quitting drinking.Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi (2022).By Sean Thor Conroe
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65: Jake Hanrahan on GARGOYLE (2021)
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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.GARGOYLE: Reporting from frontlines, jail cells, and trap houses: https://www.amazon.com/Gargoyle-Reporting-frontlines…
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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.TEENAGER: https://w…
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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 fri…
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62: Nico Walker on CHERRY (2018) and GIAN (1974–2021)
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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: https://www.bookforum.com/culture/giancarlo-…
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