To Sam Pink, for the early encouragement, and for lighting the way.

Likewise to Bud Smith, and to Scott McClanahan.

To Sam Lipsyte, for seeing the slap past the sus.

To Erroll McDonald, for setting the bar so high.

To Rebecca Godfrey, for seeing it clearly so early.

To Sheila Heti, for being so warm and supportive, for no apparent reason.

To Nico Walker, for being one of the real ones.

To Tao Lin, for being Tao Lin.

To Jordan Castro, for being there.

To Julie Flanagan, for riding for the vision.

To Jean Garnett, for guiding Fuccboi home.

To Michael Pietsch.

To all my Philly peoples.

To Catherine and Giu.

To R.

To K, for looking directly at everything and never batting a fkn eye.

And to everyone else who done ever podded with or fucked with me.

Gang.

About the Author

SEAN THOR CONROE was born KAMURA SHō 香村 翔宇 in Tokyo in 1991. He was raised in Scotland, upstate New York, Sacramento, and Santa Cruz, California. From 2009 to 2013, he studied writing and reading and philosophy at Swarthmore College. In 2014, he walked from Philly to Colorado. In 2019, he started attending the Columbia University School of the Arts. In 2021, he guest-edited New York Tyrant magazine. His writing has appeared in New York Tyrant, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, X-R-A-Y, Expat, and Back Patio. He hosts the book podcast 1storypod and lives in Harlem.