1storypod

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).

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_sidesheet

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi (2022): https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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).

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 Clemens https://phoebeclemens.com

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).

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Megan Nolan and Sean Thor Conroe on their respective novels Acts of Desperation (2021) and Fuccboi (2022).

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 Hodson ran with my former editor, the late Giancarlo DiTrapano.

Alternate/written version of this convo: https://pauldallarosa.substack.com/

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (2022): https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781800810129?gC=ad0234829&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrdaF3YXt-QIVmwsrCh11mgqmEAQYASABEgLKK_D_BwE

"The Hard Thing": https://magazine.nytyrant.com/the-hard-thing-paul-dalla-rosa/

intro song: playboi carti - "close to you" (prod. adrian)

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi (2022): https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394819/

Website: https://1storyhaus.com/pod/71-paul-dalla-rosa

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 societies had MMA. Leave Society dropped 1 year ago today: https://www.amazon.com/Leave-Society-Vintage-Contemporaries-Tao/dp/1101974478

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi: A Novel (2022).

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/liver-kings-w-69859428?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator

NYC/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 societies had mma.

Ep. 70 w/ Tao Lin

6 min - Tao on Organ meats / liver king

9 min - our diets

12 min - on Awe

22 min - on Jesus

24 min - on God

38 - partnership ways to express power

39 - did partnership societies have mma

49 - on lashing out on friends

55 - nature worship

58 - writing as Play

1 hr 8 min - writing about Parents

1 hr 13 min - our histories with religion

Leave Society out now: https://www.amazon.com/Leave-Society-Vintage-Contemporaries-Tao/dp/1101974478/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=leave+society+tao+lin&qid=1659308112&s=books&sprefix=leave+societ%2Cstripbooks%2C81&sr=1-1

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394815/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1659325362&sr=1-1

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.

11 min - Nonverbal communication.

15 min - Zola / writing about work.

19 min - “pathetic literature" / loser narrators.

24 min - readings.

30 min - the proletariat v. bourgeoisie now

34 min - east river park.

39 min - mistrust of “fiction.”

40 min - male v. Female lust.

46 min - orality / the beats / Kerouac.

49 min - Henry Miller.

54 min - rocks / grounding.

58 min - Transparent.

1 hr 7 min - the quiet place.

1 hr 9 min - the Northman.

1 hr 10 min - “the show about the show.”

1 hr 12 min- Valleyesque Fernando Flores.

1 hr 15 min - writing about the dead.

1 hr 18 min - Gerard de Nerval / ghosts.

http://1storyhaus.com/pod/69-eileen-myles