Weird Era

Episode 56: Weird Era feat. Andrew Sullivan

June 15th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  44 mins

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Alex talks to Andrew about his latest novel, The Marigold, the illusion of choice when it comes to ordering takeout, body horror, conspiracy theorists, and finding optimism about the future.

Episode 55: Weird Era feat. Marta Balcewicz

June 9th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 29 secs

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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.

Episode 54: Weird Era feat. Dizz Tate

June 1st, 2023  |  Season 1  |  35 mins 18 secs

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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.

Episode 53: Weird Era feat. Henry Hoke

May 26th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 19 secs

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Alex sits down with Henry Hoke to discuss Open Throat, fight or flight mentalities, existentialism as a tool, and the labels we impose on queer characters.

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.

Episode 51: Weird Era feat. Catherine Lacey

May 11th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 56 secs

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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.

Episode 50: Weird Era feat. Lindsay Wong

April 27th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  36 mins 15 secs

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Alex sits down with Lindsay Wong to talk about family dynamics, the difference between Eastern and Western trauma narratives, possessing characters versus haunting them, and what constitutes genre literature.

Episode 49: Weird Era feat. Michael DeForge

April 18th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  37 mins 30 secs

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Alex talks to Michael DeForge about Birds of Maine, as well as his general body of work, illustrating the cover of Weird Era Issue 2, how an email to Seripop started it all, and the appeal, though not promise, of building Utopian worlds.

Episode 48: Weird Era feat. Colin Winnette

April 12th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 58 secs

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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.

Episode 47: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Sean Thor Conroe

September 8th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 22 secs

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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.

Episode 46: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Justin Ling

August 25th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  43 mins 49 secs

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Provide Daphnee with social media one liner

Episode 45: Weird Era feat. Joshua Whitehead

August 19th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  45 mins

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This week, Alex sits down with Joshua Whitehead to discuss his new essay collection, Making Love With The Land, the pits and pearls of academia, what it means to reject categorization, and Brandi Carlile.

Episode 44: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Elif Batuman

July 28th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 33 secs

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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.

Episode 43: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Jackson Howard

July 14th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  48 mins 27 secs

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Alex sits down with Jackson Howard, an editor at the forefront of queer literature, to discuss the current state of the publishing industry, bad reading habits, Brontez Purnell's tattoos, and the Pitchfork rating system.

Episode 42: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Lillian Fishman

July 7th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  44 mins 55 secs

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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.

Episode 41: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Naben Ruthnum

June 30th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 22 secs

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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.