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

Megan Nolan and Sean Thor Conroe on their respective novels Acts of Desperation (2021) and Fuccboi (2022).

Megan Nolan on Acts of Desperation (2021) *CLIP*

NYC — Paul Dalla Rosa is a 30-year-old writer from Melbourne, Australia. His first book, a short story collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (2022), is out now. The title story, "The Hard Thing," that we reference in the convo, was initially published on New York Tyrant. Paul is a graduate of Mors Tua Vita Mea, the writing workshop Chelsea Hodson ran with my former editor, the late Giancarlo DiTrapano. 

Alternate/written version of this convo: https://pauldallarosa.substack.com/

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (2022): https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781800810129?gC=ad0234829&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrdaF3YXt-QIVmwsrCh11mgqmEAQYASABEgLKK_D_BwE

"The Hard Thing": https://magazine.nytyrant.com/the-hard-thing-paul-dalla-rosa/

intro song: playboi carti - "close to you" (prod. adrian)

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi (2022): https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394819/

Website: https://1storyhaus.com/pod/71-paul-dalla-rosa

71: Paul Dalla Rosa

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/liver-kings-w-69859428?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator

NYC/HAWAII — Leave Society (2021), Trip (2018), and Taipei (2013) author Tao Lin on The Chalice and the Blade (1987), liver king, partnership vs. dominator societies, Jesus, awe, wonder, and whether partnership societies had mma.

Ep. 70 w/ Tao Lin

6 min - Tao on Organ meats / liver king 
9 min - our diets 
12 min - on Awe
22 min - on Jesus
24 min - on God
38 - partnership ways to express power
39 - did partnership societies have mma
49 - on lashing out on friends
55 - nature worship 
58 - writing as Play
1 hr 8 min - writing about Parents 
1 hr 13 min - our histories with religion

Leave Society out now: https://www.amazon.com/Leave-Society-Vintage-Contemporaries-Tao/dp/1101974478/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=leave+society+tao+lin&qid=1659308112&s=books&sprefix=leave+societ%2Cstripbooks%2C81&sr=1-1

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of the novel Fuccboi: https://www.amazon.com/Fuccboi-Novel-Sean-Thor-Conroe/dp/0316394815/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1659325362&sr=1-1

Tao Lin on The Chalice and the Blade (1987) *CLIP*

A BENCH IN EAST RIVER PARK — Solstice-eve sitdown with legendary poet and novelist Eileen Myles (b. 1949), author of Chelsea Girls (1994), Cool For You (2000), Inferno (2010), Afterglow (2017), Evolution (2018), For Now (2020), and other books.

Pod contents: 
4 min - Marija Gimbutas.
9 min - Egyptian book of the dead / Afterglow (2017) / reincarnation.
11 min - Nonverbal communication.
15 min - Zola / writing about work.
19 min - “pathetic literature" / loser narrators.
24 min - readings.
30 min - the proletariat v. bourgeoisie now
34 min - east river park.
39 min - mistrust of “fiction.”
40 min - male v. Female lust.
46 min - orality / the beats / Kerouac.
49 min - Henry Miller.
54 min - rocks / grounding.
58 min - Transparent.
1 hr 7 min - the quiet place.
1 hr 9 min - the Northman.
1 hr 10 min - “the show about the show.”
1 hr 12 min- Valleyesque Fernando Flores.
1 hr 15 min - writing about the dead.
1 hr 18 min - Gerard de Nerval / ghosts.

http://1storyhaus.com/pod/69-eileen-myles

69: Eileen Myles

INWOOD — Miles Lagoze is a writer, director, and U.S. Marine veteran. He served as combat camera from 2008–2013. He is the director of Combat Obscura (2019), a documentary about his time out in Afghanistan, and the author of a forthcoming book, out next year.

Combat Obscura trailer: https://youtu.be/pkaTGGwwvSI

Book excerpt: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11/18/dreams-in-first-person-shooter/

Pod contents:
0 min - Die4Guy playboi carti
3 min - His time in Okinawa / K2.
7 min - Almost Transparent Blue (1976) by Ryū Murakami.
10 min - Why Miles enlisted. 
14 min - War movies. 
19 min - Why we were in the middle east. 
22 min - Incest (1999) Christine Angot.
24 min - Romping along the highway (primate mode).
28 min - Studs Lonigan (1960) by James T. Farrell (the OG Fuccboi).
34 min - Fiction vs nonfiction.
41 min - Doing college after going to war.
44 min - Who is the enemy.
50 min - The ability to laugh at yourself.
57 min - Bringing light to the darkness.

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi: a novel (2022): https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394819/

68: Miles Lagoze on COMBAT OBSCURA (2019)

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/forever-boys-w-67261482?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

SAN FRANCISCO — Forever Mag co-EIC Anika Levy on Rebecca Curtis, Sally Rooney, love stories, being of Service, and writing in fragments. From 1.3.22.

Anika pod CONTENTS

0 - intro song unreleased Yahndi leak 
1  - Twenty Grand (2007) by Rebecca Curtis
3 - delicious tacos / Houellebecq 
6 - on pseudonymity
8 - Eric calls
9 - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (2019) David Treuer
11 - Sally Rooney “mr. Salary”
14 - “mumblecore” by Megan Boyle & Tao 
15 - we park 
17 - all good stories are love stories 
21 - Transactionality / being Of Service
23 - The book of Job
26 - forevermag.net
27 - cthonic vs. holy / Hitler wears Hermes 8 by Westside Gunn (“Clare’s back” https://youtu.be/zw97PqZ1enw?t=123 ) 
30 - Christmas / sun god rant 
38 - War for Gloria by Atticus Lish 
40 - writing in fragments
42 - on Red Rocket (2021)
47 - “Good Time” / Safdie bros
49 - Gian
52 - Fuccboi derangement syndrome
55 - the Bitter End

67: Anika Jade Levy on FOREVER MAG (since 2020) *CLIP*

BERLIN / NYC — Rob Doyle, author of Threshold (2020), Autobibliography (2021), Here Are The Young Men (2014) and This Is the Ritual (2016) on travel, life in Berlin, Bolaño, Kerouac, publishing, Nietzsche, and quitting drinking.

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi (2022).

66: Rob Doyle

EAST MIDLANDS / NYC — Jake Hanrahan is a conflict reporter and journalist from East Midlands, England. He hosts the war podcast Popular Front. He is the author of Gargoyle (2021), a collection of his essays. He’s a fucking real one.

GARGOYLE: Reporting from frontlines, jail cells, and trap houses: https://www.amazon.com/Gargoyle-Reporting-frontlines-cells-houses/dp/B092PG6K13

POPULAR FRONT: https://www.patreon.com/popularfront/posts

3 min - on Ukraine / Hoods Hoods Clan.
8 min - on Fuccboi.
14 min - on the Kazinskiite pine tree community from Gargoyle (2021).
​19 min - on Combat Obscura.
23 min - shitty labor jobs.
29 min - anti-snobbery media.
32 min - on working w Andrew Callaghan.
38 min - the state of things in Ukraine.
42 min - when things are beyond theory.
56 min - Hanrahan’s come up.
58 min - on reading and writing.
1 hr 3 min - on Scrapping.
1 hr 7 min - on Sincerity.
1 hr 13 min - on bouncing back.
1 hr 23 min - Survivor (2010) Chuck Palahniuk.
1 hr 26 min - Seek (2002) by Denis Johnson, Rainbow Stories (1992) by William T Vollmann, Hella Nation (2010) by Evan Wright.

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi: A novel: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394819/

65: Jake Hanrahan on GARGOYLE (2021)

JERSEY CITY / NYC — Bud Smith is the author of Teenager, out now from Vintage. He is also the author of Double Bird (2018), Work (2017), Calm Face (2016), F250 (2014), and Tollbooth (2013), among other books. He is also a good friend. This convo is from 9 May 2022, 2 nights ago, the night before his novel Teenager dropped. Bless.

TEENAGER: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/679124/teenager-by-bud-smith/

1 min - pod start
5 min - “the New Jersey devil”
9 min - Don Quixote / picaresque 
24 min - should novels be educational 
28 min - “reading as prayer/meditation”
30 min - on working on Teenager w Gian
57 min - on how Teenager ended up where it did
1 hr 1 min - on Bud’s day job 
1hr 15 min - on Salinger
1 hr 33 min - on Gordon Lish / carver / ford 

Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi: A Novel: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394819/

64: Bud Smith on TEENAGER (2022)

COLLEGE PARK MD — Jordan Castro is the editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and the author of The Novelist, forthcoming from Soft Skull in 2022. 

We spoke this past Sunday, 13 June 2021, at his spot in Maryland after I drove down from NYC to hang with him a couple days. Jordan and I got especially close over the past couple months after losing our friend, the editor and publisher Gian DiTrapano. Jordan also helped me a lot in the aftermath of the passing my girlfriend, the writer Kyra Baldwin, not long before the passing of Gian this past March.

63: Jordan Castro 3

OXFORD, MS / NYC — Nico Walker is the author of the novel Cherry (Knopf, 2018). He was born in Georgia and grew up in Las Vegas and Cleveland. He served as a medic in the Iraq war. And worked with the late Gian DiTrapano on Cherry while in prison in the mid 2010s. Here is a recent piece he wrote on Gian: https://www.bookforum.com/culture/giancarlo-ditrapano-1974-2021-24463

Recent collection on Gian in Muumuu House I contributed to: http://muumuuhouse.com/gian.11may2021.html

Lit hub article I mentioned on Cherry’s covers: https://lithub.com/the-trouble-with-designing-a-book-when-its-author-is-in-jail/

POD CONTENTS

7 min - pod start
10 min - Gian’s biggest grievance w the game
17 min - expert talk / literary pedantry
21 min - stuff people read in prison to entertain themselves 
24 min - the elitism of Literature and linguistic classism
27 min - books were initially about the democratization of thought
29 min - Lazarillo de Tormez 
30 min - Canterbury tales
33 min - Don Quixote / Battle of Lepanto (1571)
38 min - parallel between Cervantes and Nico 
41 min - McClanahan / we just do what we see on TV
41.5 min - the solution to the big house / indie divide
42 min - Nico’s experience w Gian v. Knopf
50 min - are you gonna put the work in
51 min - no one does anything alone
54 min - Marie Calloway
59 min - if no backlash is an artwork doing anything
1 hr 1 min - what is to be done
1 hr 3 min - the difficulty / importance of dialogue 
1 hr 7 min - we say who we are through our speech
1 hr 10 min - flannery O’Connor / *James Joyce quote correction - "I am a creature driven and derided by vanity"
1 hr 13 min - Hill William
1 hr 20 min - infallible narrators 
1 hr 23 min - how to keep going when shit gets more fucked than you ever coulda imagined 
1 hr 24 min - tear the bandaid off .. just say it
1 hr 28 min - on war
1 hr 35 min - the contradictions of war
1 hr 40 min - Nico’s day to day now / Rachael Rabbit White

http://1storyhaus.com/index.html

62: Nico Walker on CHERRY (2018) and GIAN (1974–2021)

TORONTO / NYC — Brad Phillips is a writer and artist from Toronto. He is the author of Essays and Fictions (Tyrant, 2018). I enjoyed this book a lot. I felt it was courageous, funny, intimate, deceptively sweet, and formally inventive. Here is a link to the book: https://www.nytyrant.com/products/essays-and-fictions-by-brad-phillips . Here is a link to the recent story he published on Muumuu House that we reference: http://muumuuhouse.com/bp.03feb2021.html . Here is a link to a NYT thing shouting out his instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brad___phillips/?hl=en ): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/design/artists-instagram-coronavirus.html

POD CONTENTS:

2 min - pod start / how Brad prepped for this pod
7 min - how Brad started painting / doing the art
10 min - how Brad feels about Essays and Fictions now
13 min - “Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell.” - Benjamin
15 min - “Write from the end of the world”
16 min - desperation vs self sabotage 
19 min - whether or not “doing better” having written the book 
21 min - things Brad does to “do better” (physically)
24 min - dealing w trauma thru the body 
27 min - do it for the ones who need it
31 min - “boundaries” in autofiction
35 min - why writing presented by a narrator who share’s author’s name interesting
39 min - deja vu / “intuition is god”
42 min - writing is less about writing a lot than it is about intuiting when it’s Time to write
45 min - is human connection possible
47 min - everything is performance and that’s ok 
52 min - the self is a story so I don’t feel weird writing stories about a self I am now
56 min - making yourself a dumb animal to be ok
59 min - “write for pleasure publish for money” pushkin 
1 hr - to share or not to share
1 hr 3 min - is writing helpful
1 hr 4 min - Danny from “The Barista the Rooster & Me” 
1 hr 6 min - drugs

#

Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.

http://1storyhaus.com/index.html

61: Brad Phillips on ESSAYS AND FICTIONS (2018)

NYC — Shy Watson is a poet and novel-writer. Her new book Horror Vacui (2021) dropped last month from House of Vlad. She is also the author of Cheap Yellow (CCM, 2018). She lives in NYC.

Her book: https://houseofvlad.bigcartel.com/product/horror-vacui-poems-and-other-writings-by-shy-watson 

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS 


3 min - pelvic health issues
7 min - Philly connections
10 min - where shy grew up
13 min - why shy moved so much in 20s
16 min - how / when HV written / pubbed
19 min - Eileen Myles
21 min - the novel shy workin on 
23 min - Convenience store woman by sayaka murata / work by Bud smith 
24 min - Sam pink book cover
26 min - ‘autofiction ethicality’ rant / justification
27 min - on writing intimately about Life
30:30 - on religion
34 min - reading god into shy’s books 
37 min - on spirituality
39 min - diy sigil
45 min - writing as seduction
47 min - sometimes you gotta turn on the reader 
51 min - important for writing and life to get out about
54 min - becoming your own boy
58 min - sillyboys 
59 min - crypto
1 hr 2 min - mors tua vita mea
1 hr 4 min - new moon

60: Shy Watson on HORROR VACUI (2021)

TORONTO / NYC — Sheila Heti is the author of the short story collection the Middle Stories (2001), the short novel Ticknor (2005), the philosophy book the Chairs Are Where The People Go (2011), co-written by Misha Glouberman, How Should A Person Be? (2012), and Motherhood (2018). She also co-edited the collection Women in Clothes (2014). And wrote the intro to the new release of this Virginia Woolf essay, How Should One Read A Book? (2020). Her next book, Pure Colour, is coming out in January 2022. I first encountered Sheila’s writing in late 2014, when I tore through How Should A Person Be? in a night. I’ve since done a handful of pods on her books, so this is really exciting for me, it’s been a long time coming. We recorded this late last week. Sheila Heti lives in Toronto.

Here is a link to her website, with links to all her books: http://www.sheilaheti.com

Sheila's podcast "Podcast With Raisins": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-with-raisins/id1193833547

CONTENTS

8 min - pod start
12 min - Sheila’s current project
15 min - the book isn’t finished till it’s separate from you 
16 min - me tryna turn real life into an Art Idea
20 min - How Ticknor different but also similar to her other books
24 min - friendship/angels
25 min - how I first encountered Sheila's writing
36 min - on walking / Richard Serra
40 min - “art should be taken off the pedestal” 
42 min - Middle Stories reactions / why she wrote Ticknor
45 min - publishing right after 9/11
50 min - Sheila outing me for being in school lolol
55 min - Malcolm gladwell story
1 hr 4 min - coin stuff / mysticism
1 hr 7 min - on God
1 hr 11 min - on Nietzsche 
1 hr 12 min - “the great writers rearrange your brain”
1 hr 13 min - Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Martin Buber
1 hr 16 - “who decides that something is good is the Culture / having supporters” / Wittgenstein 
1 hr 21 min - “the person who loves a book is the one who’s right about it” / criticism
1 hr 28 min - on cigs / tobacco

Intro song: https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-master

Related episode - solo rant on Motherhood (1.3.2018): https://soundcloud.com/1storypod/29-family-failure-and-procreation-in-motherhood-2018-by-sheila-heti-1storypod-with-st-conroe

Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.

59: Sheila Heti

NAPLES — Giancarlo DiTrapano is the founder, editor, and publisher of New York Tyrant. The magazine initially, starting in 2005. And then of Tyrant Books, starting in 2010. I spoke with him in his apartment in Naples two days ago, before flying back to the states yesterday. After flying out there 11 days ago. He wrote for Vice for a minute during the early tens and has ran the workshop Mors Tua Vita Mea, with the writer Chelsea Hodson, in Sezze, Italy since 2015. He grew up in Charleston, West Virginia and spent many years in New York City before moving out to Italy five years ago. We talk about how he came into the game with the magazine and the imprint, what he’s psyched about writing-wise now, a whole bunch of stuff. Thoroughly enjoyed ripping this convo and running it back.

NY Tyrant: https://nytyrant.com

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POD CONTENTS

6 min - pod start: G dissing and me tryna defend Ferrante lmaoo
8 min - Of Love and Other Demons by Garcia Marquez
9 min - Autoportrait by Edouard Leve / story versus bars/syntax
11 min - translated versus untranslated 
11.5 min - G: “We should be recording this.” Me: “Bro it’s recording.”
12 min - coffee ready
13 min - move from kitchen to living room
13 min - McClanahan , bars v. Voice 
14 min - on Liveblog (2018) by Megan Boyle
19 min - ‘prep’ = Preparation for the Next Life (2014) by Atticus Lish and ‘shapiro’ = Supremacist (2016) by Dave Shapiro
22 min - story on linking w Atticus Lish
26 min - How to Live is bigger than How to Write
27 min - Louise Gluck
32 min - Babak Lakghomi
38 min - "everything important in literature is about Death"
41 min - on mimicry / imitation
46 min - on exclamation points / nietzsche ecce homo
48 min - Lutz
49 min - Tyrant Vol 3 No 2 / young Diane Lane "the Outsiders"
55 min - story of G pulling up to nyc / FSG
59 min - putting out the first Tyrant mag / Sheila Heti
1 hr 2 min - DFW
1 hr 3 min - “all these lit mags started bc the Internet”
1 hr 6 min - Supremacist by David Shapiro
1 hr 12 min - drugs according to music era
1 hr 18 min - first linking w Castro
1 hr 21 min - what/who G hype on rn / Honor Levy
1 hr 22 min - Christopher Kennedy
1 hr 29 min - mors tua vita mea
1 hr 37 min - on how relevant or not relevant being out here for writing
1 hr 40 min - How the infrastructure of Literature upheld

Intro song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1YnDZXJ7Dj0Uk9Pqu4tdAX?si=evQ3qjohRo2VxpXVIQwtig

Sean Thor Conroe https://mobile.twitter.com/stconroe lives in Harlem.

58: Gian DiTrapano on NY TYRANT (since 2005)

HARLEM — I met the homie Vern a minute ago. I see him around all the time. I seem to see him once every couple weeks, like clockwork. Usually when the weather gets nicer suddenly, or nice enough to sit courtside or hoop at this lil park I be hooping at. Whenever we link we always torch one and really go in. Like every time it’s like a pod-length powwow. Today (12.11.20) we were goin in, mildly spleed, when he just started going off and I felt moved to set it down. 

But what we talking about is, all this past week, I seen a wake going on across the street, mad people out, like 50-60 people gathered, lighting candles, pouring up, playing music for a homie who passed. I hadn’t know what had happened, but then in this convo it came up. 

5 min - real life consequences of rappers talking crazy on the track / RIP Fluff
7 min - on staying ready / long johns riff
10 min - walking to the store / on beats / how he tryna go in on the track
12 min - “fuck getting inside your head w the bars I’m tryna get inside you BODY”
12:30-14 min - inside the store
14 min - walking back to the park
14:30 - “no one wants to be a nothing”
15 min - how he was raised vs how youngins today raised
17 min - back at the park / on the homie Fluff , RIP
20 min - my lighter died

https://twitter.com/stconroe lives in Harlem

http://1storyhaus.com

57: Vern aka Happy Birthday on THE BLOCK (2020)

DMV / NYC — Nicolette Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) is her first book. I saw Nicolette read from this collection a couple times early this year, and reread it a couple times this past fortnight.

Buy Imaginary Museums: https://softskull.com/dd-product/imaginary-museums/

POD CONTENTS

3 min - pod start
4 min - small rooms big rooms card rooms basements
11 min - on “Winners” - https://magazine.nytyrant.com/winners/
14 min - on how life in Slovakia vs. US
19 min - “Field Notes” / Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
21 min - Krasznahorkai
24 min - on the traditions Nicolette partaking in
25 min - The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti
27 min - Intimate Lighting, dir. Ivan Passer
28 min - on making art in communism 
31 min - experience working with Soft Skull
33 min - on how these stories written
36 min - me repeatedly belaboring “the Nature”
37 min - Thomas Tallis / Abba
39 min - on what Nicolette working on now / Marta Becket
41 min - solitude vs. sharing. Kierkegaard definition of a saint: “to will the one thing”
42 min - subsequent books as answers to questions posed in previous ones
44 min - female eels
47 min - on Waldorf
55 min - Rings of Saturn by Sebald
57 min - mycology

– Sean Thor Conroe, http://1storyhaus.com

56: Nicolette Polek on IMAGINARY MUSEUMS (2020)

SILVER LAKE / HARLEM — Allie Rowbottom is the author of Jell-O Girls (Little Brown, 2018). She recently wrote this story in Hobart: https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/auralift She teaches writing classes for Catapult and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey. 

Buy her book: http://www.allierowbottom.com

POD CONTENTS:

3 min - pod start
6 min - how jell-o girls written thru reading her mom’s writing
10 min - on the blend of her / her mom’s pov .. influences
11 min - Jane (2005) by Maggie Nelson
15 min - speaking oneself into selfhood / marketing of the book
20 min - on sharing / generosity , exhibitionism
22 min - the survival instinct as energizing
25 min - on myopia/linearity vs empathy/panopticality
29 min - on radical superficiality / Botox
30 min - taking theory outta the classroom
32 min - articulating the unsayable
34 min - whether one can objectify oneself for power or nah
35 min - Marguerite Duras
41 min - botched Lil B the BasedGod riff
42 min - hysteria = ‘wandering womb’ (hyster-ectomy)
45 min - me admitting im a toxic male 
47 min - privilege vs pain
49 min - how able to manage health issues explored in the book, now
52 min - person you wrote about as character vs real person
54 min - edging on the pull. Till it’s time
58 min - real life ramifications of book
1 hr - dating another writer = double suicide pact

Intro song: "Thank You" by Yamz https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-master

Sean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe and grams @seanthorconroe

54: Allie Rowbottom on JELL-O GIRLS (2018)

NYC / MONTREAL — Steve Anwyll is the author of Welfare (2018). He lives in Montreal, where he works at a screen printing shop. Welfare is his first novel. What a guy. Hell yeah. Cop that shit here if ya haven’t: https://www.nytyrant.com/products/welfare-by-steve-anwyll

Anwyll on Twitter: https://twitter.com/oneloveasshole

CONTENTS

1SP053: Steve Anwyll

2 min - pod start
11 min - family / work
22 min - 9-to-5s
24 min - kindness vs. cruelty
28 min - syntax / Celine
32 min - writing for mfs who don’t be reading a lot
36 min - misanthropic French writers
44 min - self-worth / work
49 min - political implications
53 min - publishing vulnerability / handling praise
59 hr - city vs. rural
1 hr 3 min - women as motivation
1 hr 6 min - caseworkers / nurses as angels when you fucked up
1 hr 12 min - real life ramifications of the book
1 hr 15 min - who we write for

53: Steve Anwyll on WELFARE (2018)

NYC — Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else (2018) and the chapbook Pity the Animal (2014). She teaches at the Bennington MFA program and at the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Italy and also does private writing consultations. We met at a reading back in December in Bushwick. I read her book a couple times over the past couple months. 

Her book: https://www.amazon.com/Tonight-Im-Someone-Else-Essays/dp/1250170192

Pod Contents:

3 min - pod start
5 min - Work
7 min - never defining oneself as a single thing / multiplicity
10 min - presentation / performance / moon stuff
14 min - rewriting over years
15 min - the moon looks different depending on how the light hits it
17 min - Jo Ann Beard “sometimes you gotta just live longer”
20 min - “writing is gross”
22 min - narcissism / self-concern / autonomy
29 min - Longing / By Grand Central Station I Laid Down And Wept (1945) by Elizabeth Smart
33 min - planetary / animal stuff
35 min - on embarrassment
36 min - when Pity the Animal (2014) dropped
40 min - on workshopping
41 min - taking what you need out of “negative” experiences
44 min - on clarity
47 min - write to change fate’s course
52 min - on doubling down
58 min - what Chelsea workin on now
1 hr - McClanahan

Intro song: "Thank You" by Yamz - https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-master

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

http://1storyhaus.com/index.html

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