1storypod

1storypod

A podcast about literature by Sean Thor Conroe, author of Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394912

Episodes

156. Paul Was A Gooner

December 19, 2025 • 67 mins
Gravity's Rainbow, The Tain (the Irish Iliad), Sean's Writing Desire talk with Jen Beagin, pulling up on Danielle Chelosky's reading, and whether or not the Apostle Paul was a gooner. https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
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155. Love and Greatness

December 5, 2025 • 64 mins
Harold finished The Man Without Qualities by Musil, Sean finished The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede and revisited Zarathustra.
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153. Brett Gifford (first 30)

November 18, 2025 • 32 mins
Brett came thru on his way down to NYC from Montreal to talk about his influences and his work and his writing. Read his story Cheryl on Blast 2: https://blast2mag.substack.com/ Full hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
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152. Men of Nowhere

November 13, 2025 • 64 mins
Clarice Lispector, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman, Elizabeth I, Ernst Robert Curtius, Dante, and the young king Jaxon Dart. Vico Lecture and Brett Gifford Interview incoming: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod Blast 2: https://blast2mag.substack.com/
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151. Ecclesiastes

October 26, 2025 • 65 mins
Harold Rogers and Sean Thor Conroe on Ecclesiastes, Jonah, Wuthering Heights, the Cuckoo King, substack ethics, automythography, and our stalker podcast. Part 2, etc: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
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Wuthering Heights

October 23, 2025 • 5 mins
From episode 151, "Ecclesiastes": https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod On Ecclesiastes, Jonah, Wuthering Heights, the Cuckoo King, autofiction ethics, automythography, and my stalker podcast.
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150. New Royalism *Faulky's birthday* (first 20)

October 1, 2025 • 19 mins
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
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149. Combat Cameras w/ Miles Lagoze

September 12, 2025 • 50 mins
149. Combat Cameras w/ Miles Lagoze by Sean Thor Conroe
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148. Secret Night Pod *preview*

September 9, 2025 • 17 mins
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
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147. Infinite Pod

August 25, 2025 • 60 mins
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
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146. 88 Portal w/ Martine Syms

August 15, 2025 • 80 mins
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.
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145. SCHATTENFROH w/ Max Lawton

August 8, 2025 • 125 mins
Max Lawton stopped by to talk translating Schattenfroh, out this month from Deep Vellum . Third hour incoming: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
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BLAST 2 MANIFESTO

August 6, 2025 • 8 mins
READ: https://blast2mag.substack.com/p/blast-2-manifesto?utm_source=activity_item BLAST2MAG@GMAIL.COM
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144 - BLAST 2 *CLIP*

August 1, 2025 • 12 mins
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.
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Japan: Part 3 by Sean Thor Conroe (reading)

July 26, 2025 • 36 mins
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
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143. Victims w/ Andrew Boryga

July 23, 2025 • 62 mins
Andrew Boryga came thru to talk about his novel Victim (2024). Bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod Referenced: Malcolm Lowry, Junot Diaz, The Venerable Bede, Ernesto Quiñonez, Bolaño, Manuel Mujica Lainez.
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142. Earthly Delights

July 17, 2025 • 64 mins
On Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, Hieronymus Bosch, James Elkins, travel in Europe, Drake, Justin Bieber, and what makes a thing avant garde. Bonues hour &c: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
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Japan, Part 2 by Sean Thor Conroe

June 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Read along: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-2-sean-thor-conroe?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Part 1: https://theplacesreview.com/p/japan-part-1-funeral-family-travel-history?r=n1xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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140. Theophagy w/ Patrick McGraw

June 17, 2025 • 11 mins
Patrick McGraw comes by to talk the new issue (6) of Heavy Traffic. Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/1storypod
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139. Sleepers w/ Matthew Gasda *PREVIEW*

June 11, 2025 • 4 mins
With Matthew Gasda, author of the novel Sleepers and the play Dimes Square, full ep: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod
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