Weird Era

Episode 94: Weird Era feat. Charlotte Shane

October 11th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  52 mins 50 secs

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Sruti talks to Charlotte about loving cis-hetero men, being worshipped as a woman, sex work and Libra-ness, Britney Spears, and much more.

Episode 93: Weird Era feat. Danzy Senna

October 4th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  53 mins 33 secs

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Sruti talks to Danzy Senna about selling out, the insatiable appetite of Hollywood, solitude in marriage, and more.

Episode 92: Weird Era feat. Rumaan Alam

September 27th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 28 secs

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This week, Alex sits down with Rumaan Alam to discuss real estate, where wealth and religion overlap, whether artists can ever truly be in competition with each other, and more.

Episode 91: Weird Era feat. Monica Datta

September 20th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  48 mins 46 secs

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Sruti talks to Monica Datta about last words, a need for closure, what Desi parents constitute as a, "really good North American," and how everyone in your MFA program is seeing the same Lacanian therapist.

Episode 90: Weird Era feat. Heather O'Neill

September 6th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  44 mins 18 secs

Alex is joined by Heather O’Neill (for her sophomore episode!) to discuss her latest novel, The Capital of Dreams, how wartime affects art, leaving Montreal behind as a setting, Disney adults, and motherhood.

Episode 89: Weird Era feat. Tony Tulathimutte

August 30th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  43 mins 35 secs

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Sruti talks to Tony Tulathimutte about Rejection, abjection, being very online, his least favourite character in the book, and the difference between embarrassment and shame.

Episode 88: Weird Era feat. Yasmin Zaher

July 5th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 41 secs

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Sruti and Yasmin talk about how, "Palestine is neither a country nor the third world, it was its own thing," high fashion, how a body manifests a feeling, sex, and so much more.

Episode 87: Weird Era feat. Domenica Martinello

May 24th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  51 mins 27 secs

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Domenica Martinello holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Poetry. She currently lives in Montreal.

Episode 86: Weird Era feat. Walter Scott

May 17th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 18 secs

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Sruti talks to Walter Scott and discusses Big Auntie Energy, weaponized therapy speak, and why, "this world is blessed with the privilege to misunderstand you."

Episode 85: Werd Era feat. Billy-Ray Belcourt

May 10th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  38 mins 48 secs

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This week, Alex is joined by Billy Ray Belcourt to discuss his short story collection, Coexistence, familial histories, writing love and sex, the self-helpification of literature, and what it means to be at the height of one’s powers.

Episode 84: Weird Era feat. Myriam Lacroix

April 26th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  34 mins 44 secs

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This week, Alex talks to Myriam Lacroix about her novel, How It Works Out, queer fiction, the Canadian literary landscape, love as hunger, and parallel worlds.

Episode 83: Weird Era feat. Lauren Oyler

April 19th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 8 mins

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Lauren Oyler returns to the pod! She talks to Sruti about drugs, caring what your friends think, why affairs are still exciting, and so much more in this sprawling episode. Tune in now.

Episode 82: Weird Era feat. Cameron Russell

April 12th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  38 mins 49 secs

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This week, Alex talks with renowned supermodel Cameron Russell about her book, How To Make Herself Agreeable To Everyone, dismantling capitalism, eclipses, New York VS Montreal, and so much more.

Episode 81: Weird Era feat. Alexander Sammartino

April 5th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  50 mins 1 sec

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Sruti talks to Alex about his debut novel Last Acts, if there is such a thing as a, "last act" in our lives, the American dream, commercialism, gun control and the opioid crisis, and somehow, it turns into one of the most uplifting conversations Sruti has had the privilege of sitting through, yet.

Episode 80: Weird Era feat. Brontez Purnell

March 29th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 22 secs

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This week, Alex talks with returning Weird Era guest Brontez Purnell about his memoir in verse, Ten Bridges I've Burnt, twink death, Cowboy Carter, OnlyFans, how Black dialect has always been THE North American dialect, and so much more.

Episode 79: Weird Era feat. Eliza Barry Callahan

March 15th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 39 secs

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Alex talks with Eliza Barry Callahan about her literary novel, The Hearing Test, writing autofiction, the language of "internet novels", and what dictates composure in the face of adversity.