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Weird Era

Hosted by Sruti Islam and Alex Nierenhausen Theme Songs by Gino Visconti and Michael Jaworski (@mikejaws) Audio Production by Kyel Loadenthal

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Episode 116: Weird Era feat. Amie Barrodale

Weird Era ·

2025/09/12

About Amie Barrodale:Amie Barrodale’s stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, and other publications. In 2012 she was awarded The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story “William Wei.” She is the author of You Are Having a Good Time: Stories. About Trip: A woman embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to help her son, who is literally and figuratively lost at sea: a hilarious and deeply moving voyage of the body and the mind. Sandra dies

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Episode 115: Weird Era feat. Vincenzo Latronico

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2025/09/05

About Vincenzo Latronico: Born in Rome, Vincenzo Latronico studied philosophy at the University of Milan and has since published numerous books in Italian, including The Conspiracy of Doves and Gymnastics and Revolution. In addition to his own writing, he has also translated the work of many writers into Italian including work by George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, and Alexander Dumas. He lives in Milan. Sophie Hughes is a translator of Spanish and Italian literature. Her translation of The Remainder by

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Episode 114: Weird Era feat. Ocean Vuong

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2025/05/16

About Ocean Vuong:Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time Is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the American Book Award, he used to work as a fast-food server, which inspired The Emperor of Gladness. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts, and New York City. About The Emperor of

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Episode 113: Weird Era feat. Curtis McRae

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2025/05/09

About Curtis McRae:Curtis John McRae is editor-in-chief at Yolk Literary Journal. His fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Chronicling the Days anthology (Guernica Editions, 2021), and others. Quietly, Loving Everyone is his debut short story collection. About Quietly, Loving Everyone: A striking debut collection by one of Montreal’s brightest young writers. Quietly, Loving Everyone, Curtis McRae’s debut collection of stories, assembles a meditative and often profound cycle of

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Episode 112: Weird Era feat. Adelaide Faith

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2025/05/01

About Adelaide Faith:Adelaide Faith worked as an editor in the Schools Department of Channel 4 before training to be a veterinary nurse at Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, after which she worked as a nurse at the RSPCA and the PDSA. Her short fiction has appeared in Forever Magazine, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Maudlin House, Farewell Transmission, ExPat Press, and Stone of Madness Press. She is a member of Chelsea Hodson’s Morning Writing Club, and she lives in Hastings with her young daughter and old

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Episode 111: Weird Era feat. Adam Ross

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2025/04/25

About Adam Ross:ADAM ROSS is the author of Mr. Peanut, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Economist. He has been a fellow in fiction at the American Academy in Berlin and a Hodder Fellow for Fiction at Princeton University. He is editor of The Sewanee Review. Born and raised in New York City, he now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his two daughters. About Playworld: “In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my

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Episode 110: Weird Era feat. Amanda Leduc

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2025/04/18

About Amanda Leduc:AMANDA LEDUC is a disabled writer whose most recent novel, The Centaur's Wife, is "an exquisite magical world, perfectly rendered, for [a] dark and wonderful story about the dream life of outsiders and the disabled" (Heather O'Neill). Her non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space was nominated for the 2020 Governor General’s Award. Her essays and stories have appeared across Canada, the US, the UK and Australia, and she speaks regularly across

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Episode 109: Weird Era feat. Katie Kitamura

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2025/04/11

About Katie Kitamura:Katie Kitamura is the author of four previous novels, most recently A Separation and Intimacies, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Lannan fellowship, and many other honors, and her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University. About Audition: One woman, the

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Episode 108: Weird Era feat. Kevin Nguyen

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2025/04/04

About Kevin Nguyen:Kevin Nguyen is the author of the novel New Waves. He is the features editor at The Verge and was previously a senior editor at GQ. He lives in Brooklyn. About My Documents: Ursula, Alvin, Jen, and Duncan grew up as cousins in the sprawling Nguyen family. As young adults, they’re on the precipice of new ventures: Ursula as a budding journalist in Manhattan, Alvin as an engineering intern for Google, Jen as a naïve freshman at NYU, and Duncan as a promising newcomer on his high

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Episode 107: Weird Era feat. Laurie Woolever

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2025/03/28

About Laurie Woolever:Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor. She spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites and World Travel. She’s written about food and travel for the New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and others, and has worked as an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography. About Care and Feeding: A

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Episode 106: Weird Era feat. Andrew Lipstein

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2025/03/21

About Andrew Lipstein:Andrew Lipstein is the author of Last Resort (2022), The Vegan (2023), and Something Rotten (2025). He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and three sons. About Something Rotten: In his provocative, crackling new novel, Andrew Lipstein spins a wicked web through the heart of Copenhagen. You'll question everyone and everything—even the very nature of truth. Cecilie is a fed-up New York Times reporter. Her husband, Reuben, is a disgraced former NPR host and grudging

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Episode 105: Weird Era feat. Haley Mlotek

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2025/03/14

About Haley Mlotek:HALEY MLOTEK is a writer, editor, and organizer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Nation, T Magazine, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Hazlitt, and n+1, among others. She is a founding member of the Freelance Solidarity Project, a distinct division for digital media workers within the National Writers Union, and teaches in the English and Journalism departments at Concordia University. Previously, Mlotek was the deputy editor of SSENSE, the style

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Episode 104: Weird Era feat. Torrey Peters

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2025/03/07

About Torrey Peters:Torrey Peters is the bestselling author of the novel Detransition, Baby, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and was named one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and an MA in comparative literature from

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Episode 103: Weird Era feat. Lauren Elkin

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2024/12/06

About Lauren Elkin:Lauren Elkin is the author of Art Monsters and Flâneuse, a New York Times Book Review notable book and a ﬁnalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, Frieze, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. A native New Yorker, Elkin lived in Paris for twenty years and now resides in London. About Scaffolding: The debut novel by the acclaimed author of Flâneuse and Art Monsters,

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Episode 101: Weird Era feat. Fawn Parker

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2024/11/29

About Fawn Parker:FAWN PARKER is the author of the novels What We Both Know, longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Set-Point, and Dumb-Show, and the poetry collection Soft Inheritance, winner of the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize and the J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award. Her story “Feed Machine” was longlisted for the 2020 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, and her story “WunderHorse II” was anthologized in André Forget’s After Realism. Fawn is a Ph.D. student at the

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Episode 102: Weird Era feat. Sofia Ajram

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2024/11/25

About Sofia Ajram:Sofia Ajram (he/she) is a metalsmith and literary horror writer who specializes in feverish stories of anomalous architecture and gay pining. He is the editor of the forthcoming Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror. She has also given lectures on contemporary horror films at Monstrum Montreal and serves as a moderator of r/horror on Reddit. Sofia lives in Montreal with her cat Isa. Find them on Twitter and Instagram @sofiaajram. About Coup de Grâce: A mindbending

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Episode 100: Weird Era 100th Episode!

Weird Era ·

2024/11/22

In celebration of our 100th episode, Alex and Sruti reflect on just a few of their favourite conversations throughout the years, including conversations with Elif Batuman, Sean Thor Conroe, Lillian Fishman, Isle McElroy, Ottessa Moshfegh, Larissa Pham, and Marie-Helene Bertino.

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Episode 99: Weird Era feat. Nora Lange

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2024/11/15

About Nora Lange:Nora Lange's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB , Hazlitt , Joyland , American Short Fiction , Denver Quarterly , HTMLGiant , LIT , The Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Her project Dailyness was longlisted for the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She received her MFA from Brown University's Literary Arts Program where she was a Kaplan Fellow, and will be a 2024 fellow at the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. An earlier

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Episode 98: Weird Era feat. Kevin Lambert

Weird Era ·

2024/11/08

About Kevin Lambert:Born in 1992, Kevin Lambert grew up in Chicoutimi, Quebec. May Our Joy Endure won the Prix Médicis, Prix Décembre, and Prix Ringuet, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. His second novel, Querelle de Roberval, was acclaimed in Quebec, where it was nominated for four literary prizes; in France, where it was a finalist for the Prix Médicis and Prix Le Monde and won the Prix Sade; and Canada, where it was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His

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Episode 97: Weird Era feat. Kristen Felicetti

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2024/11/01

About Kristen Felicetti:Kristen Felicetti is a writer based in Rochester, NY. For over a decade, she edited the literary magazine The Bushwick Review. Log Off is her debut novel. About Log Off: In the early 2000s, from a dial-up connection in a Western New York suburb, sixteen-year-old Ellora Gao logs on to the Internet to start a secret LiveJournal. Abandoned as a child by her troubled mother and left with her former stepfather Brian, an emotionally distant alcoholic, Ellora hopes to find the

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