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.

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

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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/

From episode 118 with Sedrick Chisom: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sedrick-chisom-113955340

Art: George The Younger, The Lord of The Equestrian Short Kings, Trotted Around on a Stolen Blighted Cavalryman's Horse, Worked To the Bone During Miasmic asscrack Hours, 2022, by Sedrick Chisom.

Sedrick's new exhibition, The Villain of History for One Night Alone, is up now at Pillar Corrias in London until December 21, 2024: https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/467-sedrick-chisom-the-villain-of-history-for-one-night-alone/

Bonus hour plus more: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Heavy Traffic V out now: https://heavytrafficmagazine.com/

Harold wrote about paradise lost: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/p/eve-is-the-devil-but-thats-good

From ep 116: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Full 2 hours 22 minutes on the Patreon.