Sean Thor Conroe is the New York City-based author behind the brilliant yet polarizing 2022 novel, Fuccboi, which I talked about during my editor recs back in May. As a non-reader (Alex is the real bookworm of the newsletter) I immediately fell in love with Sean’s writing style and cruised through all of Fuccboi in just two days, that’s huge for me! He also has a podcast about books called 1storypod where writers such as Tao Lin, Eileen Myles, and Bud Smith recommend him a book and they chat about it. It’s great. Sean is one of the most exciting authors to follow right now. Lucky for us, he’s here to share a taste of his taste.
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Recently bodied this. Old big French novel. Technically about the mining strikes in northern France in 1866, and definitely about that, but also just about life during that time. Scrapping in the mines. Living in close quarters, turning up in the village with the other workers. The implied stuff Zola looks at in terms of family structure, mating rules, social life. It moves like novels of that time, like the Russians, say, in how it roams omnisciently in that quintessentially 19th century way. But something about how he starts it, with the protagonist pulling up to a new town, homeless and hungry, and seeing him gradually integrate into the mining community… The intimacy of living in such close quarters… Idk, it’s counterintuitively spicy, I recommend it, it slaps.
Aug 16, 2022
