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.
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Sruti Islam has hosted 40 Episodes.
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Episode 66: Weird Era feat. Sean Michaels
September 14th, 2023 | Season 1 | 49 mins 6 secs
2022books, authors, bookclub, books, do you remember being born, fiction, interviews, literature, montreal, mtl, sean michaels, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Sean Michaels about tech novels, what having kids does to the passing of time, what happens to art when commodified, and the nap ministry.
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Episode 65: Weird Era feat. Jessica Campbell
September 8th, 2023 | Season 1 | 45 mins 11 secs
2022books, authors, bookclub, books, d&q, drawn and quarterly, fiction, interviews, jessica campbell, literature, montreal, mtl, rave, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Jessica Campbell about Christian Raves, shame, what to do with a unibrow, and what is so often misunderstood about the graphic novel form.
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Episode 63: Weird Era feat. Emerson Whitney
August 24th, 2023 | Season 1 | 38 mins 36 secs
2022books, authors, bookclub, books, daddy boy, emerson whitney, fiction, interviews, literature, montreal, mtl, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti sits down with Emerson Whitney to discuss Daddy Boy, how elders are a map, the appeal of masculinity and the simultaneous disdain for toxic masculinity, storm chasing, and how to foster independence without it resulting in isolation.
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Episode 60: Weird Era feat. Deborah Willis
August 3rd, 2023 | Season 1 | 34 mins 27 secs
2023books, authors, bookclub, books, deborahwillis, fiction, girlfriendonmars, interviews, literature, montreal, mtl, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to author Deborah Willis about monogamy, megalomaniac CEOS, how, "a human being is a mystery, as dark and expanding as the universe," and why on earthlings themselves love reality TV so much.
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Episode 57: Weird Era feat. Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
June 28th, 2023 | Season 1 | 21 mins
2022books, alice sadie celine, authors, bookclub, books, fiction, interviews, literature, montreal, mtl, sarah blakley-cartwright, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Sarah Blakley-Cartwright about her novel Alice Sadie Celine, how mid-life crises can come for older lesbians, the cons of being overeducated, and what about goodness threatens eroticism.
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Episode 55: Weird Era feat. Marta Balcewicz
June 9th, 2023 | Season 1 | 41 mins 29 secs
author, big shadow, books, bookstagram, fiction, lit, literature, marta balcewicz, weird era, weird era pod, weird era podcast, weirdera, writers
Sruti talks to Marta Balcewicz about her debut novel Big Shadow, how intimacy can tether us to things (and people) we don't actually like, Sarah Schulman novels, why young women seek to feel singular, and much more.
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Episode 54: Weird Era feat. Dizz Tate
June 1st, 2023 | Season 1 | 35 mins 18 secs
author, books, bookstagram, brutes, dizz tate, fiction, lit, literature, weird era, weird era pod, weird era podcast, weirdera, writers
Sruti talks to Dizz Tate about her debut novel Brutes, how girlhood is a religion itself, how humiliating a woman is the only way some men know how to love, and the thread that laces female friendship with both adoration and jealousy.
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Episode 52: Weird Era feat. Stephanie LaCava
May 18th, 2023 | Season 1 | 32 mins 22 secs
Sruti talks to Stephanie LaCava about the ways the , "throb of prying eyes (is) harder to sit with than the pain of a bruised leg," daddy issues, if things can be real without conflict, and so much more.
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Episode 51: Weird Era feat. Catherine Lacey
May 11th, 2023 | Season 1 | 47 mins 56 secs
2023, books, catherine lacey, lit, literary podcast, literature, publishing, weird era, weird era pod
Sruti sits down with Catherine Lacey and talks about merging genres, how to spend a fictional biography describing a person who self-identifies as, "personless," what is something worse that grief wants, the ways in which first wives can look to the partners who follow, and so much more.
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Episode 48: Weird Era feat. Colin Winnette
April 12th, 2023 | Season 1 | 41 mins 58 secs
alex nierenhausen, book podcast, books, bookstagram, colin winnette, literary, literature, reading, sruti islam, users, weird era, weird era podcast
Sruti sits down with @colinwinnette to discuss his latest novel, Users. For a tech novel, they talk at great length about parenting, what an incandescent moment in literature is, and how the novel was inspired by the concept of guilt.
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Episode 47: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Sean Thor Conroe
September 8th, 2022 | Season 1 | 47 mins 22 secs
2022books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, fuccboi, interviews, literature, montreal, sean thor conroe, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Sean Thor Conroe about the line between mimicry and influence, white fuck boys vs ethnic fuck boys, and if fiction, like fuck boys, can manipulate.
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Episode 46: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Justin Ling
August 25th, 2022 | Season 1 | 43 mins 49 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, interviews, justinling, literature, montreal, mtl, the village, weirdera, weirderapod
Provide Daphnee with social media one liner
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Episode 44: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Elif Batuman
July 28th, 2022 | Season 1 | 41 mins 33 secs
2022books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, elif batuman, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti sits down with Elif Batuman to talk about what it means to ~feel~ intelligent, to over-intellectualize a crush, the normalized expectations of heterosexuality, how it feels to forefront Immigrant stories in North American canon, and what she thinks about The Idiot developing into film.
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Episode 42: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Lillian Fishman
July 7th, 2022 | Season 1 | 44 mins 55 secs
2021books, acts of service, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, lillian fishman, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Lillian Fishman about her favourite book of 2022 (Acts of Service), and how a conversation on Queerness led her to an investigation of Heterosexuality, why desire conflates with our personal politics, and if freedom necessitates radicalism.
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Episode 41: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Naben Ruthnum
June 30th, 2022 | Season 1 | 39 mins 22 secs
2021books, a hero of our time, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, naben ruthnum, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Naben Ruthnum about heterosexual male desire, South East Asian narratives in fiction, and how a kind of self-deprecation can ironically involve a heightened ego.
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Episode 39: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Rollie Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon
June 16th, 2022 | Season 1 | 40 mins 14 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, cadence weapon, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, rollie pemberton, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Rollie Pemberton about his debut memoir Bedroom Rapper, the 2000s Montreal DIY scene, conscious rap vs gangster rap, what it means when an album is just trash tho, and navigating a Canadian Black identity throughout his career.