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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/pkaTGGwwvSI

Book excerpt: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11/18/dreams-in-first-person-shooter/

Pod contents:

0 min - Die4Guy playboi carti

3 min - His time in Okinawa / K2.

7 min - Almost Transparent Blue (1976) by Ryū Murakami.

10 min - Why Miles enlisted.

14 min - War movies.

19 min - Why we were in the middle east.

22 min - Incest (1999) Christine Angot.

24 min - Romping along the highway (primate mode).

28 min - Studs Lonigan (1960) by James T. Farrell (the OG Fuccboi).

34 min - Fiction vs nonfiction.

41 min - Doing college after going to war.

44 min - Who is the enemy.

50 min - The ability to laugh at yourself.

57 min - Bringing light to the darkness.

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

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/forever-boys-w-67261482?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

SAN FRANCISCO — Forever Mag co-EIC Anika Levy on Rebecca Curtis, Sally Rooney, love stories, being of Service, and writing in fragments. From 1.3.22.

Anika pod CONTENTS

0 - intro song unreleased Yahndi leak

1 - Twenty Grand (2007) by Rebecca Curtis

3 - delicious tacos / Houellebecq

6 - on pseudonymity

8 - Eric calls

9 - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (2019) David Treuer

11 - Sally Rooney “mr. Salary”

14 - “mumblecore” by Megan Boyle & Tao

15 - we park

17 - all good stories are love stories

21 - Transactionality / being Of Service

23 - The book of Job

26 - forevermag.net

27 - cthonic vs. holy / Hitler wears Hermes 8 by Westside Gunn (“Clare’s back” https://youtu.be/zw97PqZ1enw?t=123 )

30 - Christmas / sun god rant

38 - War for Gloria by Atticus Lish

40 - writing in fragments

42 - on Red Rocket (2021)

47 - “Good Time” / Safdie bros

49 - Gian

52 - Fuccboi derangement syndrome

55 - the Bitter End

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).

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-cells-houses/dp/B092PG6K13

POPULAR FRONT: https://www.patreon.com/popularfront/posts

3 min - on Ukraine / Hoods Hoods Clan.

8 min - on Fuccboi.

14 min - on the Kazinskiite pine tree community from Gargoyle (2021).

​19 min - on Combat Obscura.

23 min - shitty labor jobs.

29 min - anti-snobbery media.

32 min - on working w Andrew Callaghan.

38 min - the state of things in Ukraine.

42 min - when things are beyond theory.

56 min - Hanrahan’s come up.

58 min - on reading and writing.

1 hr 3 min - on Scrapping.

1 hr 7 min - on Sincerity.

1 hr 13 min - on bouncing back.

1 hr 23 min - Survivor (2010) Chuck Palahniuk.

1 hr 26 min - Seek (2002) by Denis Johnson, Rainbow Stories (1992) by William T Vollmann, Hella Nation (2010) by Evan Wright.

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

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://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/679124/teenager-by-bud-smith/

1 min - pod start

5 min - “the New Jersey devil”

9 min - Don Quixote / picaresque

24 min - should novels be educational

28 min - “reading as prayer/meditation”

30 min - on working on Teenager w Gian

57 min - on how Teenager ended up where it did

1 hr 1 min - on Bud’s day job

1hr 15 min - on Salinger

1 hr 33 min - on Gordon Lish / carver / ford

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi: A Novel: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394819/

SAN FRANCISCO — Drove around yukked it up with Anika Levy, 26, New York editor of Forever Mag. Convo is from 12.29.21. Intro is from 1.3.22 in Long Beach.

Forever Mag issue 2: https://forever-magazine.square.site/product/forever-mag-issue-ii/1?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

Fuccboi Out Now: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394815

Anika pod CONTENTS

1 - “Twenty grand” (2007) by Rebecca Curtis

3 - delicious tacos / Houellebecq

6 - on pseudonymity

8 - the Rhetoric of Confession (1978) by Edward Fowler

11 - Eric calls

12 - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (2019) David Treuer

14 - Sally Rooney “mr. Salary”

17 - “mumblecore” by Megan Boyle & Tao

18 - we park

20 - all good stories are love stories

24 - Transactionality / being Of Service

26 - The book of Job

29 - forevermag.net

30 - cthonic vs. holy / Hitler wears Hermes 8 by Westside Gunn (“Clare’s back” https://youtu.be/zw97PqZ1enw?t=123 )

33 - Christmas / sun god rant

41 - war for Gloria by Atticus Lish

43 - writing in fragments

45 - on Red Rocket (2021)

50 - “Good Time” / Safdie bros

52 - Gian

55 - Fuccboi derangement syndrome

58 - the Bitter End

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 friend, the editor and publisher Gian DiTrapano. Jordan also helped me a lot in the aftermath of the passing my girlfriend, the writer Kyra Baldwin, not long before the passing of Gian this past March.

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-ditrapano-1974-2021-24463

Recent collection on Gian in Muumuu House I contributed to: http://muumuuhouse.com/gian.11may2021.html

Lit hub article I mentioned on Cherry’s covers: https://lithub.com/the-trouble-with-designing-a-book-when-its-author-is-in-jail/

POD CONTENTS

7 min - pod start

10 min - Gian’s biggest grievance w the game

17 min - expert talk / literary pedantry

21 min - stuff people read in prison to entertain themselves

24 min - the elitism of Literature and linguistic classism

27 min - books were initially about the democratization of thought

29 min - Lazarillo de Tormez

30 min - Canterbury tales

33 min - Don Quixote / Battle of Lepanto (1571)

38 min - parallel between Cervantes and Nico

41 min - McClanahan / we just do what we see on TV

41.5 min - the solution to the big house / indie divide

42 min - Nico’s experience w Gian v. Knopf

50 min - are you gonna put the work in

51 min - no one does anything alone

54 min - Marie Calloway

59 min - if no backlash is an artwork doing anything

1 hr 1 min - what is to be done

1 hr 3 min - the difficulty / importance of dialogue

1 hr 7 min - we say who we are through our speech

1 hr 10 min - flannery O’Connor / *James Joyce quote correction - "I am a creature driven and derided by vanity"

1 hr 13 min - Hill William

1 hr 20 min - infallible narrators

1 hr 23 min - how to keep going when shit gets more fucked than you ever coulda imagined

1 hr 24 min - tear the bandaid off .. just say it

1 hr 28 min - on war

1 hr 35 min - the contradictions of war

1 hr 40 min - Nico’s day to day now / Rachael Rabbit White

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TORONTO / NYC — Brad Phillips is a writer and artist from Toronto. He is the author of Essays and Fictions (Tyrant, 2018). I enjoyed this book a lot. I felt it was courageous, funny, intimate, deceptively sweet, and formally inventive. Here is a link to the book: https://www.nytyrant.com/products/essays-and-fictions-by-brad-phillips . Here is a link to the recent story he published on Muumuu House that we reference: http://muumuuhouse.com/bp.03feb2021.html . Here is a link to a NYT thing shouting out his instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brad___phillips/?hl=en ): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/design/artists-instagram-coronavirus.html

POD CONTENTS:

2 min - pod start / how Brad prepped for this pod

7 min - how Brad started painting / doing the art

10 min - how Brad feels about Essays and Fictions now

13 min - “Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell.” - Benjamin

15 min - “Write from the end of the world”

16 min - desperation vs self sabotage

19 min - whether or not “doing better” having written the book

21 min - things Brad does to “do better” (physically)

24 min - dealing w trauma thru the body

27 min - do it for the ones who need it

31 min - “boundaries” in autofiction

35 min - why writing presented by a narrator who share’s author’s name interesting

39 min - deja vu / “intuition is god”

42 min - writing is less about writing a lot than it is about intuiting when it’s Time to write

45 min - is human connection possible

47 min - everything is performance and that’s ok

52 min - the self is a story so I don’t feel weird writing stories about a self I am now

56 min - making yourself a dumb animal to be ok

59 min - “write for pleasure publish for money” pushkin

1 hr - to share or not to share

1 hr 3 min - is writing helpful

1 hr 4 min - Danny from “The Barista the Rooster & Me”

1 hr 6 min - drugs

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Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.

http://1storyhaus.com/index.html

NYC — Shy Watson is a poet and novel-writer. Her new book Horror Vacui (2021) dropped last month from House of Vlad. She is also the author of Cheap Yellow (CCM, 2018). She lives in NYC.

Her book: https://houseofvlad.bigcartel.com/product/horror-vacui-poems-and-other-writings-by-shy-watson

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

3 min - pelvic health issues

7 min - Philly connections

10 min - where shy grew up

13 min - why shy moved so much in 20s

16 min - how / when HV written / pubbed

19 min - Eileen Myles

21 min - the novel shy workin on

23 min - Convenience store woman by sayaka murata / work by Bud smith

24 min - Sam pink book cover

26 min - ‘autofiction ethicality’ rant / justification

27 min - on writing intimately about Life

30:30 - on religion

34 min - reading god into shy’s books

37 min - on spirituality

39 min - diy sigil

45 min - writing as seduction

47 min - sometimes you gotta turn on the reader

51 min - important for writing and life to get out about

54 min - becoming your own boy

58 min - sillyboys

59 min - crypto

1 hr 2 min - mors tua vita mea

1 hr 4 min - new moon