Weird Era

Nov 01 2024 96 ep. 43 mins 18
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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 97: Weird Era feat. Kristen Felicetti

Nov 01 2024 46 mins  
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 t

Episode 96: Weird Era feat. Jeff VanderMeer

Oct 25 2024 40 mins  
About Jeff VanderMeer: Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels (Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts), and The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. He speaks and writes frequently about issu

Episode 95: Weird Era feat. Kenzie Allen

Oct 18 2024 54 mins  
About Kenzie Allen: Kenzie Allen is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, Boston Review, Narrative, The Paris Review’s The Daily, Best New Poets, Poets.org, and other venues. Born in West Texas, she now shares time between Toronto, Ontario; Stavanger, Norway; and the Oneida reservation in G

Episode 94: Weird Era feat. Charlotte Shane

Oct 11 2024 52 mins  
About Charlotte Shane: Charlotte Shane is a nonfiction author and essayist. She is the author of Prostitute Laundry and N.B., both published by TigerBee Press, which she cofounded in 2015. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Bookforum, Harper’s, Sports Illustrated, and elsewhere. About An Honest Woman: In her early twenties, C

Episode 93: Weird Era feat. Danzy Senna

Oct 04 2024 53 mins  
About Danzy Senna: Danzy Senna is the author of four previous works of fiction, including the bestselling Caucasia and, most recently, New People, as well as a memoir. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, she teaches writing at the University of Southern California. About Colored Television: A brilliant take on love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-ide

Episode 92: Weird Era feat. Rumaan Alam

Sep 27 2024 40 mins  
About Rumaan Alam: Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and adapted into a major motion picture, as well as two other novels. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn. About Entitlement: A novel of

Episode 91: Weird Era feat. Monica Datta

Sep 20 2024 48 mins  
About Monica Datta: Monica Datta received degrees in architecture and urban design from the City University of New York, the London School of Economics, and the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), as well as an MFA in creative writing from Washington University in St. Louis, from which she received a Divided City/Mellon Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study segregatio

Episode 90: Weird Era feat. Heather O'Neill

Sep 06 2024 44 mins  
About Heather O'Neill: Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent novel, When We Lost Our Heads, was a #1 national bestseller and a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Her previous works include The Lonely Hearts Hotel, which won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for F

Episode 89: Weird Era feat. Tony Tulathimutte

Aug 30 2024 43 mins  
About Tony Tulathimutte: Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, n +1, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Times. The recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Whiting Award, he runs the writing class CRIT in Brooklyn. About Rejection: From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (�

Episode 88: Weird Era feat. Yasmin Zaher

Jul 05 2024 47 mins  
About Yasmin Zaher: Yasmin Zaher is a Palestinian journalist and writer born in 1991 in Jerusalem. The Coin is her first novel. About The Coin: A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind The Coin’s