Very rare free ep for Independence Day.

Intro (14 min) on vulnerability, whether books should instruct, Dante.

1 hour 33 min convo with Sotce on "selling out," materialism, internet hate.

Sotce 1: https://soundcloud.com/1storypod/sotce-51524-1107-pm?si=394d8537a27745cb8bf06dbc805dd162&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing |

Sotce 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jataka-tales-2-w-104516283?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link |

Sotce: https://www.instagram.com/sotce/ |

Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.

Full 4-hour ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-first-pod-w-106641402?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Honor Levy's first book MY FIRST BOOK out now.

Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel FUCCBOI.

Related: Ep. 58 with the late great editor and publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano (1/2021): https://open.spotify.com/episode/6NIzbaE5bwYJ4qv6NpILaT?si=c5849b0c0b23417c

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Part Two in Sean and Harold's Dante series.

Harold's novel Tropicalia out in paperback Tuesday: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8SjgFVO1M5/?hl=en&img_index=1

Full 2 hours: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Gabriel Smith wrote Brat, out now from Penguin.

Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.

Harold rants about Sally Rooney, courage, and La Batarde by Violette Leduc (1964, Dalkey): https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Tropicalia out in paperback 6/25: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013885

Sean Thor Conroe wrote Fuccboi.

Stephanie LaCava wrote Superrationals (Semiotexte, 2020), I Fear My Pain Interests You (Verso, 2022), and is the founder of Small Press.

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Stephanie: https://www.instagram.com/stephanielacava/

Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/?hl=en

Intro song by Thomas Thatcher: https://soundcloud.com/thomas55350/tryna-get-right-for-minute-prod-atm

Part one of 2.5 hour podcast with Sotce on The Jataka Tales: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod

Sotce is a spiritual influencer and writer and artist: https://www.instagram.com/sotce/

Sean Thor Conroe is an American writer: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/

Why is Odysseus in Hell?

From Patreon Ascension Sunday ep on Dante's Inferno, Vita Nuova by Dante, Dante: Poet of the Secular World (1929) by Erich Auerbach, and The Obscene Bird of the Night (1973) by Jose Donoso.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/im-like-dante-fr-104208398?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Solar eclipse eve (April 7) centennial ep with Harold on The Sound and the Fury, Madame Bovary, the Book of Samuel and the Gospels.

Intro correction: Faulkner was born 1897, not 1899.

Read Tropicalia, which Rivka Galchen called "Intense, tender, and wise": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013878

Fuccboi: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394918/

Intro song by Thomas Thatcher: https://soundcloud.com/thomas55350/tryna-get-right-for-minute-prod-atm

Full 1 hr 44 min phone pod w/ Little Tank, formerly known as Savage Chkild (cf. pp 103-107 of Fuccboi): https://www.patreon.com/posts/99-greedy-love-w-102304701?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link |

Little Tank is the author, most recently, of Russian Summer.

"Misanthropy comes of an all too greedy love."