NYC-MICHIGAN — Sam Pink is the author of the novels Person (2010), The No Hellos Diet (2011), Rontel (2013), Witch Piss (2014), Garbage Times / White Ibis (Soft Skull, 2018), and the collections Ice Cream Man and Other Stories (Soft Skull, 2020), Early Stuff (11:11, 2020)—which includes his 2009 debut I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It—and 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You or Create the Problems You Need (Clash, 2019), among others. He slangs his paintings and early books via IG.

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CONTENTS

3 min - pod start

4 min - We out here. In the world

6 min - on how so prolific

9 min - You can’t say everything (anything) say one thing

11 min - on concision / chopping up

14 min - on talking through your stories

19 min - SP a journal writer / journalist / confederacy of dunces

21 min - mythical stories are all mish reports / Rontel as an Odyssey

22 min - swording / shielding up ⚔️

25 min - BBDB / McFlurries / hashing shit out is generative

29 min - writer vs. word-scratcher Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau / humility

31 min - Being a writer not bein a mystical god its being a plumber

32 min - obligatory Bolaño rant

36 min - Animals / empathy / Levinas

39 min - reliance on / detachment from the ecosystem

41 min - Animals as symbols

44 min - Thoth / Ibis / pea head

48 min - current work

50 min - evolution of online lit since aughts

59 min - sharing art is shooting out sonar signals

1 hr 2 min - Early Stuff

1 hr 7 min - Humor

1 hr 8 min - McClanahan

1 hr 12 min - ‘you gotta wanna be good but you also are only whatever you are’

1 hr 13 min - important to indulge the asshole in you

1 hr 19 min - bravado underrated when you need it

1 hr 23 min - Keith!

1 hr 34 min - pod end

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Sean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe https://twitter.com/stconroe

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