1storypod

Mar 01 2025 114 ep. 59 mins 17
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A podcast about literature by Sean Thor Conroe, author of Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912

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130. Consciousness Level-up (first 50)

Mar 01 2025 51 mins  
On Hamlet, Ulysses, the Iliad, Anna Karenina, and self-invention. Full ep and bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

129. Wizened Youth w/ Diego Sanchez (first 30)

Feb 19 2025 34 mins  
https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

128. Pod of Myself w/ Will Mountain Cox

Feb 10 2025 70 mins  
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.

Lecture / reading: The Sound and the Fury #1 [p. 1-17]

Feb 06 2025 54 mins  
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

Overlanding Essay (OG) *preview*

Feb 04 2025 10 mins  
Free preview of this essay I posted to my substack: https://seanthorconroe.substack.com/p/overlanding-essay-original-full-version

127. Brutalist sentimentalism

Jan 31 2025 62 mins  
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 a

125. Men at Work *Bonus* (first 30)

Jan 16 2025 64 mins  
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

125. Men at Work (Tristram Shandy)

Jan 05 2025 11 mins  
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

124. Winter Solstice of Our Discontent

Dec 19 2024 48 mins  
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

123. Dead Souls (first 30)

Dec 11 2024 30 mins  
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.