Sruti Islam
Co-Host of Weird Era
Sruti Islam is a reader, and sometimes writer.
She has over five years of experience working in publishing—formerly a book publicist for Drawn and Quarterly, Anteism, and Metatron Press.
She currently runs a book newsletter in partnership with Librairie St-Henri Books: Weird Era, where she also serves as the Events Coordinator.
She is a libra.
Sruti Islam has hosted 68 Episodes.
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Episode 113: Weird Era feat. Curtis McRae
May 9th, 2025 | Season 1 | 37 mins 42 secs
#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #curtismcrae, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #quietlylovingeveryone, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
Sruti talks to Curtis McRae about his debut collection of short stories, Montreal (romance! a thriving literary scene!), if everybody loves, and more.
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Episode 112: Weird Era feat. Adelaide Faith
May 1st, 2025 | Season 1 | 36 mins 55 secs
#adelaidefaith, #bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #happinessforever, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
Sruti talks to Adelaide Faith about her debut novel Happiness Forever, if being so raw is what makes it hard to preserve happiness, how crying locates personhood, and how to define a small, medium, and large life.
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Episode 111: Weird Era feat. Adam Ross
April 25th, 2025 | Season 1 | 47 mins 48 secs
#adamross, #bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #playworld, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
Sruti talks to Adam Ross about publishing fiction set in a Reagan Era in the midst of a Trump era, what it means to come up with a language for your life, and why you should never marry the love of your life.
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Episode 109: Weird Era feat. Katie Kitamura
April 11th, 2025 | Season 1 | 28 mins 51 secs
#audition, #bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #katiekitamura, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
Sruti welcomes Katie Kitamura back to the pod to talk about Audition, "to be young and seen in the fulfillment of an older person’s desires," aging as a woman, and the cruelty we all enact as judges.
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Episode 108: Weird Era feat. Kevin Nguyen
April 4th, 2025 | Season 1 | 41 mins 45 secs
#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #kevinnguyen, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #mydocuments, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
Sruti talks to with Kevin Nguyen and dive into his novel My Documents, exploring themes of digitization, detainment, tech power, family dynamics, and the complexities of solidarity in today’s world.
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Episode 105: Weird Era feat. Haley Mlotek
March 14th, 2025 | Season 1 | 41 mins 55 secs
#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore, #haleymlotek, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #nofault, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
Sruti talks to Haley Mlotek about her divorce memoir, the enduring appeal of marriage, the persistent social stigma of divorce, the relationship between glamour and divorced women, and even asks—would Haley get married again?
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Episode 104: Weird Era feat. Torrey Peters
March 7th, 2025 | Season 1 | 55 mins 8 secs
#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #stagdance, #torreypeters, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
Torrey Peters returns to the podcast to talk with Sruti about being, "too woke" vs being annoying, to interrogate a commitment to finite definitions of personhood, inner rivalry in a collectively oppressed tribe, and so much more.
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Episode 103: Weird Era feat. Lauren Elkin
December 6th, 2024 | Season 1 | 47 mins 24 secs
2024books, authors, bookclub, books, fiction, interviews, laurenelkin, literature, montreal, mtl, scaffolding, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Lauren Elkin about intimacy, the eternal haunting of physical spaces, psychoanalytic terms, how feminism can save men, and more.
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Episode 100: Weird Era 100th Episode!
November 22nd, 2024 | Season 1 | 57 mins 47 secs
#100th, #alexnierenhausen, #bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #weirdera, #canadianlit, #canlit, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #srutiislam, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
In celebration of our 100th episode, Alex and Sruti reflect on just a few of their favourite conversations throughout the years.
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Episode 99: Weird Era feat. Nora Lange
November 15th, 2024 | Season 1 | 39 mins 28 secs
#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #weirdera, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #norajeanlange, #usfools, #weirderapodcast
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?
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Episode 98: Weird Era feat. Kevin Lambert
November 8th, 2024 | Season 1 | 51 mins 3 secs
#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #weirdera, #kevinlambert, #lit, #literary, #mayourjoyendure, #montreallit, #weirderapodcast
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."
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Episode 97: Weird Era feat. Kristen Felicetti
November 1st, 2024 | Season 1 | 46 mins 57 secs
#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #weirdera, #kristenfelicetti, #lit, #literary, #livejournal, #logoff, #montreallit, #weirderapodcast
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.
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Episode 94: Weird Era feat. Charlotte Shane
October 11th, 2024 | Season 1 | 52 mins 50 secs
#anhonestwoman, #bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #charlotteshane, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #sexwork, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
Sruti talks to Charlotte about loving cis-hetero men, being worshipped as a woman, sex work and Libra-ness, Britney Spears, and much more.
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Episode 93: Weird Era feat. Danzy Senna
October 4th, 2024 | Season 1 | 53 mins 33 secs
#bookstagram #bookpodcast #authorinterview #books #booklover #bookworm #bibliophile #podcast #goodreads #booksofinstagram #literarypodcast #weirdera #reading #igreads #bookcommunity #publishing #indiebookstore #newreleasetuesday, #coloredtelevision, #danzysenna, #lit, #literary, #montreallit, #weirdera, #weirderapodcast
Sruti talks to Danzy Senna about selling out, the insatiable appetite of Hollywood, solitude in marriage, and more.
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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.
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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.