Weird Era
Dedicated to asking authors the right questions.
Displaying all 6 Episode of Weird Era with the tag “lit”.
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Episode 74: Weird Era feat. Katya Apekina
February 9th, 2024 | Season 1 | 46 mins 28 secs
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Sruti talks to Katya Apekina about mean ethnic humour, if exclusively, "wanting" is the definition of purity, living as different versions of yourself in one lifetime, and the underrated joys of motherhood.
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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
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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
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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
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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.