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UPSTATE NY/HARLEM — Nicola Maye Goldberg is the author of the novella Other Women (Sad Spell, 2016), the chapbook The Doll Factory (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), and, most recently, the novel Nothing Can Hurt You (Bloomsbury, 2020). Cop here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/nothing-can-hurt-you-9781635574890/

Or here: https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Hurt-Nicola-Maye-Goldberg/dp/1635574889

Nicola: https://www.nicolamaye.com/

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POD CONTENTS:

3 min - pod start

6 min - Nicola mighta started the rona

9 min - ‘all novelists are failed poets’

13 min - NCHY’s structure

18 min - on how related to 2666

21 min - on Tracy

25 min - on the Girl Boss trope / the commodification of Me Too

33 min - on Fatherhood

38 min - on courage

42 min - Nicola’s initial connection to the crime

46 min - why men kill women

51 min - the solution to sexual violence is all straight dudes buy Nicola’s book

57 min - on mens rea

1 hr 2 min - on Nicola’s new stuff / Santa Cruz

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Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem. https://1storyhaus.com

COLLEGE PARK–HARLEM — Summer solstice sit down with Jordan Castro, editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and Pets: An Anthology, recently out from Tyrant Books. He is the author of Young Americans (CCM 2013) and if I really wanted to feel happy I’d feel happy already (CCM 2014). Recorded today, reflecting on our convo recorded one week ago on Pets (2020) and The Present [Reflective] Age (1843, Tr. Walter Kaufmann) by Kierkegaard. Last week's stab was solid but had to run it back one time, really rip it. Do yourself a solid a cop PETS, it's a banger. https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets

Really enjoyed listening to this one back. Posting the original ep also, since we reference it, but I recommend listening to this one first.

PETS !! – https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets

Read 'Seven Stories' by Jordan Castro: http://muumuuhouse.com/jc.06jan2020.html

Read referenced dad poem (~1 hr 50 min) from from Young Americans: http://muumuuhouse.com/jc.poetry3.html

Read the opening 1K-word hitter from my novel FUCCBOI, 'Postmate,' that Castro edited and published this past January: http://magazine.nytyrant.com/postmate-sean-thor-conroe/

COLLEGE PARK–HARLEM — Jordan Castro is the editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and PETS: An Anthology, recently out from Tyrant Books https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets . I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Writers included are Patty Yumi Cottrell, Tao Lin, Ann Beattie, Sarah Manguso, Scott McClanahan, Kathryn Scanlan, Nicolette Polek, Chelsea Hodson, Blake Butler, Precious Okoyomon, Mark Leidner, Sam Pink, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, David Nutt, Reagan Bird, Michael W. Clune, Christine Schutt and Mallory Whitten. I recommend it for anyone who has or had or wants pets.

Cop PETS now !! – https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets

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NYC-WISCONSIN — Big Bruiser Dope Boy is the author of Your First Real Boyfriend & Other Poems and Foghorn Leghorn (2018) from Clash Books and After Denver (2020) forthcoming from 11:11 Press later this year.

Bruiser and I started corresponding in advance of the trip he was planning to make out to New York City with Sam Pink for the release of Pink's new book, Ice Cream Man and Other Stories (Soft Skull), before that shit got postponed due to the rona.

Cop Bruiser's book: https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/big-bruiser-dope-boy-foghorn-leghorn

Big Bruiser's writing: https://neutralspaces.co/bigbruiserdopeboy/

'The Goonifesto' by BBDB: http://gaydeathtrance.net/BBDB/7.html

'Pick-Up Artist in the Animal Kingdom' (Muumuu House) by BBDB: http://muumuuhouse.com/bbdb.07feb2020.html

Recent Gay Death Trance piece: http://gaydeathtrance.net/conroe/1.html

3 min Easter rant start

6 min *23K US rona deaths (not cases) (as of 04.14.20)

10 min pod start

15 min on Friends

16 min on The Loser by Thomas Bernhard

18 min on Tiger King

20 min on compounds

21 min on Ryan Trecartin

23 min on the seasonal mish

25 min on pair migration

28 min aeration / harvest time

29 min Fuck it mask on/off

30 min bandanas / Hanky code

32 min Only on the left side yeah that’s the crip side

34 min mask riff

37 min floor-painting gig story

43 min connecting with the homies

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Sean Thor Conroe lives in New York City.

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NYC — Andrew Weatherhead was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of $50,000 (2020), Todd (2018) and Cats & Dogs (2014). He began writing $50,000 in 2015. I read $50,000 probably four times, each time in a single sitting, over the past fortnight since its release.

Purchase $50,000 from Publishing Genius: https://www.publishinggenius.com/product/50000/

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POD CONTENTS

3 min - pod start

6 min - comin in hot w wittgenstein tractatus bars/the inadequacy/importance/absurdity of language

11 min - on Facts/‘fake news’

17 min - on the title, $50,000

21 min - on working a 9-to-5

24 min - “wait until you see me dance” by Deb Olin Unferth and writing about office life

27 min - things only mean in context / a setting

30 min - “the things that no one knows about you are how you know yourself” but also “you can only know yourself thru ppl”

31 min - money only works when we agree on its value

35 min - mfa gripes

38 min - redacted mfa quote htmlgiant story

44 min - on humor/laughter

45 min - “Winners” by Nicolette Polek from Imaginary Museums (2020)

49 min - on literary readings

51 min - on concision/editing/first drafts

56 min - on Time/cycles

59 min - on neuroscience

1 hr 2 min - writing vs. medicine

1 hr 5 min - on Satantango (1985) by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

1 hr 9 min - line breaks vs block text

1 hr 15 min - on Names

1 hr 18 min - “Joe Loser Jr.”

1 hr 23 min - writing about writing

1 hr 25 min - art-making in 2020

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Referenced pieces:

"Origin of the World" (collage of book blurbs): http://thefanzine.com/the-origin-of-the-world/

Selected tweets: http://muumuuhouse.com/ajw.twitter.2009-2014.html

Creative independent interview:

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/poet-andrew-weatherhead-on-hijacking-language/

$50,000 excerpt: http://magazine.nytyrant.com/from-50000-andrew-weatherhead/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/weeatherhead?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Sean Thor Conroe lives in New York City.

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https://instagram.com/seanthorconroe

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HARLEM / ORLANDO — Cavin Bryce Gonzalez is a storywriter and editor and curator from Orlando, Florida. He is the editor-in-chief of Back Patio Press. He got mad quick hitters available online here: https://neutralspaces.co/cavinbryce/

Cop his recent flash fiction collection, I COULD BE YOUR NEIGHBOR, ISN'T THAT HORRIFYING (2020): https://backpatiopress.bigcartel.com/product/i-could-be-your-neighbor-isn-t-that-horrifying

Sam Pink is the author of many many fire books including Garbage Time/White Ibis (2018), Witch Piss (2014), Rontel (2013), The No Hellos Diet (2011), Person (2010), and Ice Cream Man And Other Stories (forthcoming Soft Skull 2020)(https://softskull.com/dd-product/the-ice-cream-man-and-other-stories/)

I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It (2009) is an early collection consisting of collected writings from 2007-2009. His early hitters are available here: https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Pink/e/B007IDUP5M%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Or via dm: https://www.instagram.com/sam_pink_art/

Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem. http://1storyhaus.com

NYC — Al Jacobs, 30, is an NYC-based writer from Toledo, Ohio. He read the copy of Jesus' Son (1992) I lent him over the past few months. I reread the Picador Modern Classics pocket version i copped after lending him my old version over the same period.

Jesus' Son (1992) is a series of interconnected short stories narrated by a guy, "Fuckhead," and follows several recurring characters, all addicts, who engage in drug use, petty crime, and murder. Denis Johnson (1949–2017) published Jesus' Son at the age of 43.

CONTENTS

5m pod start

8m the infantilized artist boi dream / baby stuff

10m my sus “The Other Man” take

13m you gotta be OUT HERE

15m when they do that lowkey B & E

16m on “autofiction”

21m writing about work/survival/out-here-ness

24m Edmund Wilson v. Nabokov beef as Meek v. Drake beef I’m on Wilson-Meek’s side bro

On male isolation/coal miners

26m having empathy for mfkrs more important than everything

31m mommy stuff

33m Jesus God’s son who Jesus’s son tho??

34m idc abt ur art unless self-snitch in it

36m Sam Pink bizarro absurdism

40m writing abt the outcasts the fuckups the deformed

42m should characters be redeemed

43m dwell in the ambiguity bro

1h 7m Japanese love poems

1h 20m pod end

Most recent hitter "Another Way To Stay Calm": https://backpatio.press/2019/11/06/another-way-to-stay-calm-by-sean-thor-conroe/

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MANHATTAN — Harold, 22, is a writer, standup, and boxer. He grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Steubenville, Ohio. He read Absalom, Absalom! in the fortnight following the death of his paternal grandfather, about a month ago. I read it around the same time, six months after the death of my paternal grandfather.

A lotta dad stuff in this ep. Apologies for this extended Faulky bender I'm on. This the last one for now. If you haven't read the book, the 20 min intro could be a good overview to maybe coax you into cracking it. If you have, I mean, shit, fuckwittit.

Outro song: "untitled 02 | 06.23.2014." by kendrick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GghFQ8ryEU

Sean Thor Conroe is a writer and carpenter living in Harlem. Bars in X-R-A-Y, Soft Cartel, Back Patio, Expat Lit; forthcoming in Philosophical Idiot, BULL Lit.

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JERSEY CITY — In the second part of 2666 (2004) by Bolaño, Amalfitano, a philosophy professor losing his mind, tries to understand the secrets of the universe through an esoteric geometry book. But instead of reading it, he hangs it on a clothesline, outside, and watches it get rained on—blasted by the elements. Bud Smith’s writing embodies this idea: he out here, in the world, working at his oil refinery job, making art around his life rather than the other way around.

I linked with him at his spot last weekend in Jersey City to talk about Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930), which I happened to be reading when I saw, via Twitter, that he too was reading it. Faulkner also worked manual labor for a time—as an operator as a chemical plant, while writing this book.

Bud Smith is the author of Teenager (Tyrant Books, 2019), Double Bird (Maudlin House, 2018), WORK (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press, 2017), Calm Face (House of Vlad, 2016), among others. He works heavy construction building and destroying chemical plants, refineries, and generating stations. He’s on Twitter @bud_smith https://twitter.com/Bud_Smith. Here is a list of his stories online: https://neutralspaces.co/bud_smith/. He is currently writing a serialized weekly series called Good Luck, from The Nervous Breakdown.

Intro song: "when i die" by yamz https://soundcloud.com/yeums/when-i-die

Sean Thor Conroe is a writer and carpenter living in Harlem. Bars in X-R-A-Y, Soft Cartel, Expat Lit; forthcoming in Philosophical Idiot, BULL Lit, Back Patio.

https://twitter.com/stconroe

https://instagram.com/seanthorconroe

https://1storyhaus.com

HARLEM-SYDNEY — Yo so I fucked with this book heavy. Obviously initially for the hype surrounding its backstory—homie Nico going to war, getting fucked up, getting hooked on opioids, robbing banks, getting caught, going to jail, still in jail now! (till 2020 i think) But the thing is it's written mad well too, on some Denis Johnson voice-driven type shit. Not to mention how in he goes, merking himself for all the wild shit he did. Not to mention how well it captures the petty drug trade in a bleak midwestern spot like outer Cleveland, where it's set. Just fire, all around, this one. Shouts out Gian from Tyrant Books and all the other editors who brought this thing to the world.

Tren W. aka Based Mountain is a writer and poet and editor living in Sydney.

"Cor Blimey!" by Tren: https://paintbucketmagazine.blogspot.com/2019/08/cor-blimey.html

Intro song: "when i die" by yamz https://soundcloud.com/yeums/when-i-die

Sean Thor Conroe is a writer and carpenter living in Harlem. Bars in X-R-A-Y, Soft Cartel, Expat Lit; forthcoming in Philosophical Idiot, BULL Lit, Back Patio.

https://twitter.com/stconroe

https://instagram.com/seanthorconroe

https://1storyhaus.com