Weird Era
Dedicated to asking authors the right questions.
We found 10 episodes of Weird Era with the tag “bookish”.
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Episode 37: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Mayukh Sen
December 3rd, 2021 | Season 1 | 43 mins 29 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, mayukh sen, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, tastemakers, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks to Mayukh Sen about Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, how our own relationship to immigrant mothers inform an interest in this text, "the food establishment/media", and culinary lexicon—curry is a real word!
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Episode 36: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Jo Hamya
November 25th, 2021 | Season 1 | 38 mins 40 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, jo hamya, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, three rooms, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks with Jo Hamya about her debut novel Three Rooms, how to know when a chapter is done, what the American literary domestic is vs the UK’s notion of home, and what Woolf might think about the idea of a 9-5 just to stay alive.
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Episode 35: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Claire Vaye Watkins
November 18th, 2021 | Season 1 | 46 mins 7 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, claire vaye watkins, fiction, i love you but i've chosen darkness, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Sruti talks with Claire Vaye Watkins about why normal might be overrated (given her family's history with the Manson family), the relationship between pleasure and peace—in fact, lots about pleasure seeking, and the independent lives parents occupy before their children come to exist.
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Episode 34: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Todd Babiak
November 11th, 2021 | Season 1 | 46 mins 52 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, the spirits up, todd babiak, weirdera, weirderapod
Alex sits down with Todd to discuss his new novel, The Spirits Up, Charles Dickens, pandemic writing, financial malfeasance, and whether or not babies and animals can ACTUALLY see ghosts.
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Episode 33: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Eli Tareq el Bechelany Lynch
November 4th, 2021 | Season 1 | 42 mins 52 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, eli tareq el bechelany-lynch, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Alex and EIi talk about activism in writing, the garbage crisis in Lebanon, queerness and Arabness, and what makes Montreal such an intimate city.
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Episode 32: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Brian Evenson
October 28th, 2021 | Season 1 | 33 mins 17 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, brian evenson, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Alex and Brian sit down to talk about his latest collection, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, short stories as a format, universe-building, horror writing, and fearing the self.
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Episode 31: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Rivka Galchen
October 21st, 2021 | Season 1 | 44 mins 2 secs
2021books, authors, bookclub, bookish, books, bookstore, everyone knows your mother is a witch, fiction, indiebooks, indiebookstore, interviews, librairiesthenribooks, literature, lshb, montreal, montrealbookstore, mtl, rivka galchen, sthenri, weirdera, weirderapod
Alex and Rivka sit down to talk about her latest book, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch, philosophy, life and judicial systems in 17th century Germany, and what moody septuagenarians and millennials have in common.
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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.