Sean comes down to the city to sperg out on Harold about Ovid, Vico, sacred prostitution, and the Venus mother goddess myth; Harold talks DFW, Suetonius, life in the city, and Rob Rubsam's Male Literature Vulture piece.

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

149. Combat Cameras w/ Miles Lagoze by Sean Thor Conroe

The fellas convene at the Upper East Spot for one final pod: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Harold's essay: https://blast2mag.substack.com/p/abolishing-time

Harold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe on David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, The Recognitions by Gaddis, The Golden Bough by James Frazier, Augustine's Confessions, Paul's epistles, syncretism, automythography, Vico, and the Mutt Readings reading Sean did in Brooklyn. Second hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

8/8 portal Aquarius full moon pod with goated artist and filmmaker Martine Syms, director the excellent 2022 film African Desperate. On Anne Carson, Sappho, Simone Weil, Julian of Norwich, mysticism, and kicking it in Paris at the Nike conference.

PART 2: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.

READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/blast2mag/p/the-last-supper?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Max Lawton stopped by to talk translating Schattenfroh, out this month from Deep Vellum . Third hour incoming: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

READ: https://blast2mag.substack.com/p/blast-2-manifesto?utm_source=activity_item

FULL HOUR on Philip II, Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, Go Down Moses by Faulkner, The Venerable Bede, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, eviction, BLAST 2 TENETS: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

HAROLD ROGERS and SEAN THOR CONROE on 31 JULY 2025 in NYC.

Part 3 in my trilogy about my monthlong trip to Japan for The Places Review: https://substack.com/home/post/p-168879828

Part 2: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-2-sean-thor-conroe?r=2jic0e

Part 1: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-1-funeral-family-travel-history?r=2jic0e