Weird Era
Dedicated to asking authors the right questions.
We found 10 episodes of Weird Era with the tag “authors”.
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Episode 30: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Helen Chau Bradley
October 8th, 2021 | Season 1 | 43 mins 5 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, helen chau bradley, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, metonymy press, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, personal attention roleplay, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti chats with Helen Chau Bradley about their latest collection of short stories, Queer morality, what makes for a poised short story ending, and the Montreal arts scene.
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Episode 29: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Sruti Islam
October 1st, 2021 | Season 1 | 48 mins 50 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Alex sits down with Sruti to discuss how the Weird Era Literary Arts journal came to be. Fun!
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Episode 28: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Natasha Brown
September 23rd, 2021 | Season 1 | 33 mins 46 secs
2021books, assembly, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, natasha brown, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Natasha Brown about her debut: Assembly. They think through generational persistence, how to interrogate a reader's presuppositions, and what the weathering hypothesis means to the Black female experience.
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Episode 27: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Alexandra Kleeman
September 16th, 2021 | Season 1 | 50 mins 9 secs
2021books, alexandra kleeman, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, somewhere new under the sun, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod, weirderapodbookstore
Sruti sits down with Alexandra Kleeman to discuss her new book Something New Under the Sun, paying homage to classic California Gold Rush Fiction, cinematic prose, the ways in which climate change is exciting (yes), and if perhaps, we are predisposed to kindness.
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Episode 26: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Michael LaPointe
September 9th, 2021 | Season 1 | 46 mins 8 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, michael lapointe, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, the creep, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti sits down with Michael LaPointe, author of The Creep, to discuss the horror genre, what it means to come to a text from a place of distrust, and the ambition of character construction.
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Episode 25: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Alex Manley and Daphné B
September 2nd, 2021 | Season 1 | 45 mins 40 secs
2021books, alex manley, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, daphne b, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, made-up, maquillee, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti sits down with Alex Manley and Daphné B, to discuss Manley's english translation of Daphné B's Maquillée: Made-Up. We unfold the dynamics of translation, the various gendered readings of the book, and their individual relationship to the text.
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Episode 23: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Katie Kitamura
August 19th, 2021 | Season 1 | 40 mins 45 secs
2021books, a separation, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, intimacies, katie kitamura, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti sits down with Katie Kitamura, addressing her fans as addicts of interiority, thinking through what lies behind the responsibility of bearing witness, and if the quality of art is determined by how well it mimics truth.
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Episode 22: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Sophie McCreesh
August 12th, 2021 | Season 1 | 28 mins 36 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, once more with feeling, sophie mccreesh, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Sophie McCreesh about her debut novel, Once More With Feeling, writing about depression, and how to find hope in the idea of promise.
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Episode 21: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Beth Morgan
August 5th, 2021 | Season 1 | 37 mins 41 secs
2021books, a touch of jen, authors, beth morgan, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti sits down with Beth Morgan, author of A Touch of Jen, to discuss magical realism, the pleasure in reading “unlikeable” characters, the concept of judgement, social media, and manifesting.
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Episode 20: LSHB's Weird Era Season 1
July 10th, 2021 | Season 1 | 7 mins 56 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
A look back at our first season.