Weird Era

Apr 11 2025 108 ep. 43 mins 15
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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 109: Weird Era feat. Katie Kitamura

Apr 11 2025 28 mins  
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 twen

Episode 108: Weird Era feat. Kevin Nguyen

Apr 04 2025 41 mins  
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, A

Episode 107: Weird Era feat. Laurie Woolever

Mar 28 2025 46 mins  
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

Episode 106: Weird Era feat. Andrew Lipstein

Mar 21 2025 46 mins  
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 natur

Episode 105: Weird Era feat. Haley Mlotek

Mar 14 2025 41 mins  
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 E

Episode 104: Weird Era feat. Torrey Peters

Mar 07 2025 55 mins  
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

Episode 103: Weird Era feat. Lauren Elkin

Dec 06 2024 47 mins  
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 y

Episode 101: Weird Era feat. Fawn Parker

Nov 29 2024 36 mins  
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

Episode 102: Weird Era feat. Sofia Ajram

Nov 25 2024 46 mins  
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 l

Episode 100: Weird Era 100th Episode!

Nov 22 2024 57 mins  
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.