![]() ![]() When I was growing up, I don’t think I ever felt full fidelity to either side of my identity. ![]() Could you describe how this shaped your voice? You were born in Tokyo, moved as a young kid to Scotland, came to the States, and then moved every two years or so between regions and different kinds of neighborhoods here. ![]() We met and spoke in Brooklyn and continued our conversation via email.ĪLEC GEWIRTZ: Toward the end of Fuccboi, you describe being put through a “slang-learning, accent adopting gauntlet” as a kid and adolescent. The book was edited by the late Giancarlo DiTrapano, publisher of the pathbreaking Tyrant Books, whose titles include Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish and what purpose did i serve in your life by Marie Calloway.Ĭonroe, born Kamura Sho in Tokyo in 1991, was raised by a Japanese single mother in the United States, attended Swarthmore College (where he played basketball), and recently graduated from Columbia University’s MFA program in fiction writing. Each paragraph is brief and peppered with bro-speak and internet slang (“bruh,” “thank fuck,” “lowkey redpill videos”), while accommodating an unexpected poetry: “Sun all but dipped, elongating things.”Ī work of autofiction, Fuccboi follows Sean Conroe’s relationship with his parents, his body, and his art during the early years of the Trump presidency. Our narrator’s slangy bravado may be a little cringey and his hypermasculinity just a bit sus, but he is also endlessly charming, particularly in his willingness to mock his own swaggering persona. DEBUT NOVELIST Sean Thor Conroe’s mesmerizing Fuccboi reads like a string of inspired DMs from a high school weed dealer with a hidden love for Bolaño. ![]()
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