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Weird Era

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Episode 60: Weird Era feat. Deborah Willis

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2023/08/04

About Deborah Willis: DEBORAH WILLIS’s last short story collection, The Dark and Other Love Stories, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her first book, Vanishing and Other Stories, was named one of The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2009, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for fiction. Her work has also appeared in The Walrus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Lucky Peach, and Zoetrope. She has worked as a bookseller at Munro’s Books in Victoria, BC, as a

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Episode 59: Weird Era feat. Ottessa Moshfegh

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2023/06/30

About Ottessa Moshfegh: Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California. About

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Episode 57: Weird Era feat. Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

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2023/06/28

About Sarah Blakley-Cartwright: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is the author of Red Riding Hood, a #1 New York Times bestseller published worldwide in thirty-eight editions and fifteen languages. She is the editor of Hauser & Wirth’s The Artist's Library for Ursula magazine. She is publishing director of the Chicago Review of Books, and associate editor of A Public Space. About Alice Sadie Celine: It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale is far from

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Episode 56: Weird Era feat. Andrew Sullivan

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2023/06/16

ABOUT ANDREW SULLIVAN: Andrew F. Sullivan is the author of novels The Marigold; The Handyman Method (co-written with Nick Cutter); Waste, a Globe and Mail Best Book; and the story collection All We Want Is Everything, a Globe and Mail Best Book and finalist for the Relit Award. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario. ABOUT THE MARIGOLD: In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development, an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface, feeding off the past. The

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Episode 55: Weird Era feat. Marta Balcewicz

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2023/06/09

ABOUT MARTA BALCEWICZ: Marta Balcewicz spent her early childhood in Pomerania and Madrid, and now lives in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Catapult, Tin House online, Vol. 1. Brooklyn, Washington Square Review, The Rumpus, and Passages North, amongst other publications. Her fiction was anthologized in Tiny Crimes(Catapult, 2018). She received a fellowship from Tin House Workshops in 2022. Big Shadow is her first novel. ABOUT BIG SHADOW: In an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated

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Episode 54: Weird Era feat. Dizz Tate

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2023/06/02

About Dizz Tate: DIZZ TATE grew up in Florida and lives in London, U.K. She has had short stories published in Granta, The Stinging Fly, Dazed, No Tokens Journal, Five Dials, 3:AM Magazine, among other publications. She was long-listed for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2020 and won the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2019. Brutes is her first novel. About Brutes: In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister

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Episode 53: Weird Era feat. Henry Hoke

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2023/05/26

About Henry Hoke: Henry Hoke is an editor at The Offing and a writer whose work has appeared in No Tokens, Triangle House, Electric Literature, and the flash noir anthology Tiny Crimes. He co-created the performance series Enter>text in Los Angeles, and has taught at CalArts and the UVA Young Writers Workshop. He lives in New York City. About Open Throat: A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the

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Episode 52: Weird Era feat. Stephanie LaCava

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2023/05/19

About Stephanie LaCava: Stephanie LaCava is a writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Vogue, and Interview. Her debut novel, The Superrationals, was published by Semiotext(e) in 2020. About I Fear My Pain Interests You: Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet,

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Episode 51: Weird Era feat. Catherine Lacey

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2023/05/12

About Catherine Lacey: Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, and Pew, and the short story collection Certain American States. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. She has been a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her essays and

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Episode 50: Weird Era feat. Lindsay Wong

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2023/04/28

About Lindsay Wong: LINDSAY WONG is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo, which was a finalist for Canada Reads 2019. She has written a YA novel entitled My Summer of Love and Misfortune. Wong holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Winnipeg. Follow her on Twitter @LindsayMWong, Instagram

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Episode 49: Weird Era feat. Michael DeForge

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2023/04/19

About Michael DeForge: Michael DeForge is a cartoonist, an illustrator, and a community organizer who lives Toronto, Ontario. About Birds of Maine: Birds roam freely around the Moon complete with fruitful trees, sophisticated fungal networks, and an enviable socialist order. The universal worm feeds all, there are no weekends, and economics is as fantastical a study as unicorn psychology. No concept of money or wealth plagues the thoughts of these free-minded birds. Instead, there are angsty teens

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Episode 48: Weird Era feat. Colin Winnette

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2023/04/12

About Colin Winnette: COLIN WINNETTE’s books include Coyote, Haints Stay, and The Job of the Wasp, which was an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Pick. Winnette’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy, McSweeney’s, The Believer, and The Paris Review Daily. A former bookseller in Texas, Vermont, New York, and California, he is now a writer living in San Francisco. About Users: Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its “original

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Episode 47: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Sean Thor Conroe

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2022/09/09

About Sean Thor Conroe: Sean Thor Conroe is a Japanese-American writer. He was born in Tokyo in 1991 and was raised in Scotland, upstate New York, and the greater Bay Area. He studied literature and philosophy at Swarthmore College, and attended the Columbia University School of the Arts. He has guest edited New York Tyrant Magazine and hosts the book podcast 1storypod. About Fuccboi: A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying new voice. Set

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Episode 46: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Justin Ling

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2022/08/26

About Justin Ling: JUSTIN LING is an investigative journalist whose reporting has focused on stories and issues undercovered and misunderstood. His writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. In 2019 he hosted "The Village," the award-winning third season of the CBC podcast Uncover, which examined cold cases from the 1970s that were reopened as a result of the McArthur investigation. About Missing From the Village: The tragic and

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Episode 45: Weird Era feat. Joshua Whitehead

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2022/08/19

About Joshua Whitehead: Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is author of the award-winning novel Jonny Appleseed and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer, and he is editor of Love after the End. He is assistant professor in the departments of English and international Indigenous studies at the University of Calgary. About Making Love with the Land: In Making Love with the Land, his first nonfiction book, Whitehead explores the

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Episode 44: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Elif Batuman

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2022/07/29

About Elif Batuman: Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. From the acclaimed and bestselling author

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Episode 43: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Jackson Howard

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2022/07/15

Jackson Howard is an editor and writer from Los Angeles who lives in Brooklyn. He’s an Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and its imprint MCD, where he acquires and edits a broad range of fiction and nonfiction. Writers he publishes include Judith Butler, Brontez Purnell, Sarah Schulman, Catherine Lacey, Fernando A. Flores, Susan Straight, Venita Blackburn, Imogen Binnie, Thomas Grattan, Missouri Williams, Jonathan Escoffery, Kaitlyn Tiffany, and many others. As a writer, his reviews, profiles,

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Episode 42: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Lillian Fishman

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2022/07/08

About Lillian Fishman: Lillian Fishman was born in 1994 and lives in New York. She received her MFA from NYU, where she was a Jill Davis Fellow. Acts of Service is her first novel. About Acts of Service: A “bold and unflinchingly sexy” (Vogue) debut novel about a young woman who follows her desires into a world of pleasure, decadence, and privilege, unraveling everything she thought she knew about sex . . . and herself. “One of the most entertaining books about sex I’ve ever read . . . The perfect

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Episode 41: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Naben Ruthnum

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2022/07/01

ABOUT NABEN RUTHNUM: Naben Ruthnum lives in Toronto, and is the author of Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race. As Nathan Ripley, he is the author of two thrillers, Find You In the Dark and Your Life is Mine. He also writes for film and television. ABOUT A HERO OF OUR TIME A wry comic novel with an acerbic wit, A Hero of Our Time is a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity. Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia

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Episode 40: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Heather O'Neill

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2022/06/24

About Heather O'Neill HEATHER O’NEILL is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent bestselling novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel, won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her previous work, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction

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