37: Nicholas Baptiste on Tom Wolfe's BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES and Denis Johnson's JESUS' SON

WEST PHILLY — Nicholas Baptiste is a Philly-based writer, reader, musician, and MFKN LIBRARIAN YO. So sick. We post up on a blasted summer day on Baltimore Ave and powwow off the cuff about a whole gang of shit, returning throughout to our most recent reads: Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) and Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son (1992), respectively. We talk writing processes and what we consider constitutes the best art. Where this leads might be summed up as: that which investigates the difficult, touchy, taboo ideas, without either valorizing or condemning any one version of them. Sean Thor Conroe was born Sho Kamura in Tokyo in 1991. Latest story: https://expatpress.com/that-fire-sean-thor-conroe/ Contact: sean.thor.conroe@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/stconroe IG: https://www.instagram.com/seanthorconroe/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1storypod/id1238415112?mt=2 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/1storypod Website: http://1storyhaus.com