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

Intro song by Thomas Thatcher.

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: https://www.patreon.com/posts/live-annotation-121818722?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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

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: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/p/i-won

Sean's audio goes a bit quiet 6-14 minutes, he got too excited ranting and pulled the plug, but it comes back.

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: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/p/futile-and-idle-men

Harold read Tristram Shandy, Sean reads from The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. Also on Whitman, Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, and writing as a priestlike vocation.

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

Merve Emre's Paradise Lost New Yorker piece, The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck, Harold's Gogol piece, DFW, Tristram Shandy.

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

Full ep and bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

On the Krasznahorkai event, Dead Souls by Gogol, the Cormac article, Blood Meridian, Matthias Enard, the Gospels, and the problem of American fiction.

From Ep 121 *bonus*: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

On Robert Walser, Hoderlin, Stoner by John Williams, Mike Tyson.

Referenced novel at the end is Grande Sertao by João Guimarães Rosa, originally published in 1956, first translated in 1963 as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, and being retranslated by by Alison Entrekin as Vastlands: The Crossing, due out in 2026.

Painter Sedrick Chisom on growing up in Philly, Munch, America, and the history of Rome.

Sedrick's new exhibit, The Villain of History for One Night Alone, up now at Pilar Corrias in London: https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/467-sedrick-chisom-the-villain-of-history-for-one-night-alone/

My piece on Sedrick forthcoming from next issue of Family Style: My piece on Sedrick is forthcoming from the next issue of Family Style: https://www.family.style/

Intro song by Thomas Thatcher

Sedrick Chisom: https://www.instagram.com/sedrickchisom/

Sean Thor Conroe: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/