Weird Era
Dedicated to asking authors the right questions.
We found 10 episodes of Weird Era with the tag “books”.
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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 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.
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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.
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Episode 54: Weird Era feat. Dizz Tate
June 1st, 2023 | Season 1 | 35 mins 18 secs
author, books, bookstagram, brutes, dizz tate, fiction, lit, literature, weird era, weird era pod, weird era podcast, weirdera, writers
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.
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Episode 53: Weird Era feat. Henry Hoke
May 26th, 2023 | Season 1 | 40 mins 19 secs
author, books, bookstagram, fiction, henry hoke, lit, literature, open throat, weird era, weird era pod, weird era podcast, weirdera, writers
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.
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Episode 51: Weird Era feat. Catherine Lacey
May 11th, 2023 | Season 1 | 47 mins 56 secs
2023, books, catherine lacey, lit, literary podcast, literature, publishing, weird era, weird era pod
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.
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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.
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Episode 49: Weird Era feat. Michael DeForge
April 18th, 2023 | Season 1 | 37 mins 30 secs
alex nierenhausen, birds of maine, book podcast, books, bookstagram, literary, literature, michael deforge, reading, sruti islam, weird era, weird era podcast
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.