Weird Era

Episode 103: Weird Era feat. Lauren Elkin

December 6th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 24 secs

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Sruti talks to Lauren Elkin about intimacy, the eternal haunting of physical spaces, psychoanalytic terms, how feminism can save men, and more.

Episode 101: Weird Era feat. Fawn Parker

November 29th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  36 mins 39 secs

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Alex is joined by Fawn Parker to discuss her latest novel, Hi, It's Me, how grief and humour relate, writing poetry VS writing a novel, experiencing the natural world as a city kid, and why PHD students are not (always) sexy.

Episode 102: Weird Era feat. Sofia Ajram

November 25th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  46 mins 10 secs

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Alex sits down with author and artist Sofia Ajram this week to discuss their novella, Coup De Grâce, urban legends, queer tragedies, mental health struggles as body horror, and our favourite Montreal metro stations.

Episode 100: Weird Era 100th Episode!

November 22nd, 2024  |  Season 1  |  57 mins 47 secs

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In celebration of our 100th episode, Alex and Sruti reflect on just a few of their favourite conversations throughout the years.

Episode 99: Weird Era feat. Nora Lange

November 15th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 28 secs

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Sruti talks to Nora Lange about horny parents, how revenge is a desperate mode of imitation, mythology, bodies, femininity, and asks: where are the eyes?

Episode 98: Weird Era feat. Kevin Lambert

November 8th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  51 mins 3 secs

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Sruti talks to Kevin Lambert about the montreal housing crisis, female ambition, how the shape of our spaces define our lived experiences, and writing from the perspective of the, "bad guys."

Episode 97: Weird Era feat. Kristen Felicetti

November 1st, 2024  |  Season 1  |  46 mins 57 secs

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Sruti talks to Kristen Felicetti about writers who started off as livejournal girlies, what it is about music that can evoke a feeling never really experienced, Fiona Apple, Queer culture in the 2000s, and much more.

Episode 96: Weird Era feat. Jeff VanderMeer

October 25th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 22 secs

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Alex chats with Jeff VanderMeer about Absolution, the surprise fourth volume in his Southern Reach series, how it feels to return to Area X ten years later, pushing his readers, environmentalism, and magic mushrooms!

Episode 95: Weird Era feat. Kenzie Allen

October 18th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  54 mins 41 secs

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This week, Alex sits down with Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen to discuss her debut poetry collection Cloud Missives, movement in poetry, Disney's problematic portrayal of Indigenous characters, the search for identity, and love poems about crabs.

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

#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #lit, #literary, #monicadatta, #montreallit, #thievingsun, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast

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

#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #rejection, #tonytulathimutte, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast

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

#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #palestine, #thecoin, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast, #yasminzaher

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.