Alexander Pope and Sean on Transcription (Aug 26, 2026, ~7:30 PM).

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Harold read Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Sean quit Literature.

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

Harold Rogers breaks down The Walk Book.

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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.

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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.

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Harold's viral stack, Notes from Underground, Fathers and Crows, Rings of Saturn, Sebald and Vollmann and humility and courage.

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READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/blast2mag/p/janissary?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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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.

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 German, and now this Moresco trilogy. Recorded Good Friday, days before Max and my pilgrimage out to Sacramento to interview Vollmann. Audio got kinda jacked up, that's my bad.

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