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by Sean Thor Conroe

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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  1. 171. Pope Boys

    Alexander Pope and Sean on Transcription (Aug 26, 2026, ~7:30 PM). https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  2. 170. Sicko Mode

    Harold read Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Sean quit Literature.

  3. 168. East of Eden *LIVE* [Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival]

    168. East of Eden *LIVE* [Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival] by Sean Thor Conroe

  4. Walk Book Drop Week [Ep. 167]

    Harold Rogers breaks down The Walk Book. From Ep. 167: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  5. 166 - Buddy of the Year

    THE WALK BOOK by Sean out MONDAY from Little Engines (at littleengines.shop, starting NOON EASTERN tomorrow, 6.22.26), COME UNDONE by Eddie Huang OUT NOW, Sean finished his Tale of Genji essay, Harold QUESTIONS EVERYTHING. https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  6. 165. Philandering Bums

    Harold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe on Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Vertigo by WG Sebald, and The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. From 6.6.26 in New York City. https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  7. 164. Humility and Courage

    Harold's viral stack, Notes from Underground, Fathers and Crows, Rings of Saturn, Sebald and Vollmann and humility and courage. Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  8. JANISSARY by Eric Olguin Conroe [BLAST 2]

    READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/blast2mag/p/janissary?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true NEW EP: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  9. 163. Disciplinemaxxing

    Transcription by Ben Lerner, A Table For Fortune & Europe Central by William T Vollmann, The Great Gatsby, Helen of Nowhere, The Prince by Machiavelli, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, and the Fascist suppression of the Human Spirit.

  10. 162. Beginnings w/ Max Lawton (44 min)

    On Antonio Moresco's The Beginnings (1998, first English translation by Max Lawton from Deep Vellum), William T. Vollmann, and the vast maximalist novel no one can read, with translator and writer Max Lawton. Max has translated Sorokin's novels from Russian, Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz from...

  11. 161. American Optimism

    Don Quixote, Candide by Voltaire, Schopenhauer, William T Vollmann, Motherdying by Michael Lentz, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago. https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  12. What Kind of Love [BLAST 2] w/ Intro

    https://open.substack.com/pub/blast2mag/p/what-kind-of-love?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

  13. 160. Fear and Tension w/ Eskor David Johnson, Part One

    Pay As You Go (2023, McSweeney's) author Eskor David Johnson with Harold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe talking 100 Years of Solitude, Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau, Salman Rushdie, Alvaro Mutis, I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos, growing up in Trinidad and storms in Arkansas.

  14. 159. PA 13

    Pneumatomonarchian Apiarism (solar eclipse Chinese new year Saturn reset pod). https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  15. THE SIGNS AND THE SYMBOLS by Greta Schledorn [BLAST 2] w/ Intro

    https://open.substack.com/pub/blast2mag/p/the-signs-and-the-symbols?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

  16. 158. The Trouble With Men

    Sean Thor Conroe and Harold Rogers on Sean's 92nd Street Y "Trouble with Men” panel, Harold's Switcheroo Christ theory, infusing our futile acts with divinity, Vico, Juan Benet, and 2666 — live from a hotel room in midtown Manhattan. #podcast #literature #books

  17. 157. Switcheroo Christ (Intro)

    FULL HOUR: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha, The Grail Legend by Emma Jung, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and 2666.

  18. 156. Paul Was A Gooner

    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

  19. 155. Love and Greatness

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

  20. 153. Brett Gifford (first 30)

    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

  21. 152. Men of Nowhere

    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/

  22. 151. Ecclesiastes

    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

  23. Wuthering Heights

    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.

  24. 150. New Royalism *Faulky's birthday* (first 20)

    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

  25. 149. Combat Cameras w/ Miles Lagoze

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

  26. 148. Secret Night Pod *preview*

    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

  27. 147. Infinite Pod

    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…

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  28. 146. 88 Portal w/ Martine Syms

    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...

  29. 145. SCHATTENFROH w/ Max Lawton

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

  30. BLAST 2 MANIFESTO

    READ: https://blast2mag.substack.com/p/blast-2-manifesto?utm_source=activity_item [email protected]

  31. 144 - BLAST 2 *CLIP*

    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.

  32. Japan: Part 3 by Sean Thor Conroe (reading)

    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

  33. 143. Victims w/ Andrew Boryga

    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.

  34. 142. Earthly Delights

    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

  35. Japan, Part 2 by Sean Thor Conroe

    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

  36. 140. Theophagy w/ Patrick McGraw

    Patrick McGraw comes by to talk the new issue (6) of Heavy Traffic. Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

  37. 139. Sleepers w/ Matthew Gasda *PREVIEW*

    With Matthew Gasda, author of the novel Sleepers and the play Dimes Square, full ep: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  38. 138. Happiness Forever with Adelaide Faith

    Part one of our pod with Adelaide Faith, author of Happiness Forever, out now from FSG. https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  39. Harold read Schattenfroh

    Sean returned from Japan, Harold read Schattenfroh (Deep Vellum, August 2025) by Michael Lentz, tr. Max Lawton. Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  40. 134. Mating (first 11:44)

    On whether art is inherently harmful or good for thdse world, Mishima and the value of going to war, Harold on Mating by Norman Rush, and which books Sean is bringing to Japan. Join the paytch for free to listen --> https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  41. 133. Confessions with Thomas Thatcher (first 13:33)

    https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  42. 132. The New Mythic Method w/ Al Jacobs *preview*

    132. The New Mythic Method w/ Al Jacobs *preview* by Sean Thor Conroe

  43. 131. Sacred Grove with Eric Conroe

    On Ezra Pound, tree girls in Ovid, Eric's writing on dance and Sean's three part Circe-Persephone-Eve essay. Recorded on full moon 3.13.25 in the yurt. Bonus:...

  44. 130. Consciousness Level-up (first 50)

    On Hamlet, Ulysses, the Iliad, Anna Karenina, and self-invention. Full ep and bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  45. 129. Wizened Youth w/ Diego Sanchez (first 30)

    https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

  46. 128. Pod of Myself w/ Will Mountain Cox

    Sean and Harold are joined by Will Mountain Cox, author of Roundabout (Relegation, 2023). They do a deep dive on Walt Whitman, the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, Harold Bloom on Hamlet, Will's history with Giancarlo DiTrapano, and why America and podcasting is gnostic. Bonus hour and more on…

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  47. Lecture / reading: The Sound and the Fury #1 [p. 1-17]

    Reading through all of The Sound and the Fury, explaining what’s going on, with introductory lecture-rants each week. Emphasizing the element of the novel that retells Easter weekend—that is, the gospels. Ep 2 & more:...

  48. Overlanding Essay (OG) *preview*

    Free preview of this essay I posted to my substack: https://seanthorconroe.substack.com/p/overlanding-essay-original-full-version

  49. 127. Brutalist sentimentalism

    On Sean's NYT blackout in the Heavy Traffic reading write up, Sam Kriss's Fuccboi takedown, Ulysses, Hamlet, Harold's new short story, and the new movement—Baroque Brutalist Sentimentalism. Bonus hour and video: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod Harold's story:...

  50. 125. Men at Work *Bonus* (first 30)

    From bonus hour of ep. 125, get on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod On popular genre fiction (Emily Henry), Time in fiction, Tristram Shandy, the Gospel According to Thomas, The Friend by Sigrid Nunez, and the Stars. Listen to or read Harold's piece on Tristram Shandy:...

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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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