Weird Era

Dedicated to asking authors the right questions.

About the show

Hosted by Sruti Islam and Alex Nierenhausen
Theme Songs by Gino Visconti and Michael Jaworski (@mikejaws)
Audio Production by Kyel Loadenthal

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Episodes

  • Episode 3: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Joni Murphy

    February 18th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  32 mins 54 secs
    2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, capitalism, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, joni murphy, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, talking animals, weirdera, weirderapod

    Joni Murphy, author of Talking Animals, discusses capitalism, academia, and puns.

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    Episode 2: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Lauren Oyler

    February 11th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 13 secs
    2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fake accounts, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, lauren oyler, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod

    Lauren Oyler discusses her debut novel Fake Accounts: book criticism, relationship anarchy, and moral purity.

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    Episode 1: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Torrey Peters

    February 5th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  34 mins 41 secs
    2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, detransition baby, detransitioning, fiction, gender, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, motherhood, mtl, sexuality, sthenri, torrey peters, trans, transgender, weirdera, weirderapod

    Bookseller, Sruti Islam, sits down to discuss Detransition, Baby—a debut novel by Torrey Peters.