Weird Era
Dedicated to asking authors the right questions.
Displaying items 21-30 of 70 in total of Weird Era with the tag "authors".
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Episode 61: Weird Era feat. Kyle Dillon Hertz
August 11th, 2023 | Season 1 | 46 mins
2022books, authors, bookclub, books, fiction, interviews, kyle dillon hertz, literature, montreal, mtl, the lookback window, weirdera, weirderapod
Alex sits down with Kyle Dillon Hertz to discuss his debut novel, The Lookback Window, trauma narratives, bad MFA writing, and why it’s so easy to focus on the past and ignore the present.
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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 59: Weird Era feat. Ottessa Moshfegh
June 29th, 2023 | Season 1 | 46 mins 49 secs
2022books, authors, bookclub, books, fiction, interviews, lapvona, literature, montreal, mtl, ottessa moshfegh, weirdera, weirderapod
Alex sits down with the legend herself, Ottessa Moshfegh, to talk about Lapvona, whether or not her novels exist in one shared literary universe, what makes her stories so appealing to different types of readers, and what she thinks about happy endings.
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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 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 45: Weird Era feat. Joshua Whitehead
August 19th, 2022 | Season 1 | 45 mins
2022books, authors, bookclub, books, fiction, interviews, joshua whitehead, literature, making love with the land, montreal, mtl, weirdera, weirderapod
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.
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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 43: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Jackson Howard
July 14th, 2022 | Season 1 | 48 mins 27 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, jackson howard, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
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.
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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.