Latest Indiebooks Podcast Episodes
Episode 84: Weird Era feat. Myriam Lacroix
Weird Era - April 26, 2024 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week, Alex talks to Myriam Lacroix about her novel, How It Works Out, queer fiction, the Canadian literary landscape, love as hunger, and parallel worlds. About Myriam Lacroix: MYRIAM LACROIX was born in Montreal to a Québécois mother and a Moroccan father, and currently lives in Vancouver. ...
Episode 83: Weird Era feat. Lauren Oyler
Weird Era - April 19, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Lauren Oyler: Lauren Oyler's essays on books and culture appear regularly in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Harper's, and other publications. Her debut novel, Fake Accounts, was published in 2021. She lives in Berlin. About No Judgement: From the national b...
Episode 82: Weird Era feat. Cameron Russell
Weird Era - April 12, 2024 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Cameron Russell: Cameron Russell has spent the last twenty years working as a model for clients including Prada, Calvin Klein, Victoria’s Secret, H&M, Vogue, and Elle. With over forty million views, her TED talk on the power of image is one of the most popular of all time. She is the co-fou...
Episode 81: Weird Era feat. Alexander Sammartino
Weird Era - April 05, 2024 13:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Alexander Sammartino: Alexander Sammartino lives in Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Syracuse University. Last Acts is his first novel. About Last Acts: Following a near-death experience, an entrepreneurial father-and-son duo wreak havoc and fend off bankruptcy in this unflinching portray...
Episode 80: Weird Era feat. Brontez Purnell
Weird Era - March 29, 2024 13:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Brontez Purnell: Brontez Purnell is the author of several books, most recently 100 Boyfriends, which won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction, was longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and was name...
Episode 79: Weird Era feat. Eliza Barry Callahan
Weird Era - March 15, 2024 13:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Eliza Barry Callahan: Eliza Barry Callahan is a writer and artist from New York, New York. Shortly after receiving her BA from Columbia, where she studied visual art, art history, and poetry, she returned to the university where she received her MFA in writing (2022). Her writing has been p...
Episode 78: Weird Era feat. Mariah Stovall
Weird Era - March 07, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Mariah Stovall: Mariah Stovall has written fiction for the anthology Black Punk Now, and for Ninth Letter, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Hobart, the Minola Review, and Joyland; and nonfiction for The Los Angeles Review of Books, Full Stop, Hanif Abdurraqib’s 68to05, The Paris Review, Poets & Writers, an...
Episode 77: Weird Era feat. Alexandra Tanner
Weird Era - March 01, 2024 14:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Alexandra Tanner: Alexandra Tanner is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She is a graduate of the MFA program at The New School and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and The Center for Fiction. Her writing appears in The New York Times Book Review, Gawker, and Jewish Currents, am...
Episode 76: Weird Era feat. Sarah Mintz
Weird Era - February 23, 2024 14:15 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Sarah Mintz: Sarah Mintz is a graduate of the English MA program at the University of Regina. Her work has been published with Book*Hug Press, JackPine Press, Radiant Press, Apocalypse Confidential, The Sea & Cedar Literary Magazine, and Agnes and True . Find out more at https://smintz.carr...
Episode 75: Weird Era feat. Rebecca May Johnson
Weird Era - February 16, 2024 14:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Rebecca May Johnson: Rebecca May Johnson has published essays, reviews and nonfiction with Granta, Times Literary Supplement and Daunt Books Publishing, among others, and is an editor at the trailblazing food publication Vittles. Small Fires is her first book. About Small Fires: Why do we c...
Episode 74: Weird Era feat. Katya Apekina
Weird Era - February 09, 2024 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Katya Apekin: Katya Apekina is a novelist, screenwriter, and translator. Her debut novel, The Deeper the Water, the Uglier the Fish, was named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus, Buzzfeed, Lithub, and others, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and has been translated into Spanish, Catal...
Episode 73: Weird Era feat. Marie-Helene Bertino
Weird Era - February 02, 2024 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Marie-Helene Bertino: Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. She has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Sh...
Episode 72: Weird Era feat. Lexi Freiman
Weird Era - October 27, 2023 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Lexi Freiman: LEXI FREIMAN is an Australian writer and editor who graduated from Columbia's MFA program in 2012. Her first novel, Inappropriation, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. She also writes for television. About The Book of Ay...
Episode 71: Weird Era feat. Anna Biller
Weird Era - October 20, 2023 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Anna Biller: Anna Biller is a filmmaker and a writer known for her feminist point of view, and for her meticulously crafted visual design. The New York Times called her cult film The Love Witch “a hothouse filled with deadly and seductive blooms,” and Indiewire called her debut feature Viva...
Episode 70: Weird Era feat. Melissa Broder
Weird Era - October 12, 2023 20:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Melissa Broder: Melissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed, The Pisces, and Death Valley, the essay collection So Sad Today, and five poetry collections, including Superdoom. She has written for The New York Times, Elle, and New York magazine’s The Cut. She lives in Los Angeles. Fo...
Episode 69: Weir Era feat. Chris Oliveros
Weird Era - October 06, 2023 19:45 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Chris Oliveros: Chris Oliveros was born in 1966 in Montreal and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chomedey, Laval. He founded Drawn & Quarterly in 1989 and was the publisher for the following twenty-five years. Oliveros stepped down from D+Q in 2015 to work on Are You Willing to Die for the C...
Episode 68: Weird Era feat. Isle McElroy
Weird Era - September 28, 2023 01:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Isle McElroy: Isle McElroy (they/them) is a non-binary author based in New York. Their writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, The Cut, GQ, The Guardian, Vogue, Bon Appétit, and other publications. They have received fellowships from the Bread Loaf...
Episode 67: Weird Era feat. Paola Ferrante
Weird Era - September 22, 2023 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Paolo Ferrante: Paola Ferrante is a writer living with depression. Her debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack (2019), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize. She has won Grain Magazine's Short Grain Contest for Poetry, The New Quarterly's Peter Hin...
Episode 66: Weird Era feat. Sean Michaels
Weird Era - September 15, 2023 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Sean Michaels: SEAN MICHAELS is the author of the novels Us Conductors and The Wagers, and his non-fiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Pitchfork and The New Yorker. He is a recipient of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize and the Prix N...
Episode 65: Weird Era feat. Jessica Campbell
Weird Era - September 08, 2023 18:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Jessica Campbell: Jessica Campbell is a Canadian artist originally from Victoria, British Columbia. Her fine art has been exhibited across North America, and in 2019 she had a solo exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. An educator of comics art and history, Campbell has taug...
Episode 64: Weird Era feat. Mona Awad
Weird Era - September 01, 2023 01:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Mona Awad: Mona Awad is the author of the novels All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Bunny was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award and the New England Book Award. It was named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It is currently being...
Episode 63: Weird Era feat. Emerson Whitney
Weird Era - August 25, 2023 01:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Emerson Whitney: Emerson Whitney is a writer and a professor. Their book Heaven, McSweeney’s 2020, was named a ‘best book’ by the AV Club, PAPER, Literary Hub, Refinery29, Ms. Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, the Observer, and the Seattle Times. Heaven was also awarded a Kirkus star and w...
Episode 62: Weird Era feat. Hilary Leichter
Weird Era - August 18, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Hilary Leichter: Hilary Leichter is the author of Temporary, which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the New Yo...
Episode 61: Weird Era feat. Kyle Dillon Hertz
Weird Era - August 11, 2023 19:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout Kyle Dillon Hertz: Kyle Dillon Hertz received an MFA in fiction at NYU, where he was the Writer in Public Schools Fellow. He lives in Brooklyn. About The Lookback Window: Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the...
Episode 60: Weird Era feat. Deborah Willis
Weird Era - August 04, 2023 01:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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’...
Episode 59: Weird Era feat. Ottessa Moshfegh
Weird Era - June 30, 2023 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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, he...
Episode 57: Weird Era feat. Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Weird Era - June 28, 2023 15:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 ...
Episode 56: Weird Era feat. Andrew Sullivan
Weird Era - June 16, 2023 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsABOUT 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 Hamilt...
Episode 55: Weird Era feat. Marta Balcewicz
Weird Era - June 09, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsABOUT 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 antholog...
Episode 54: Weird Era feat. Dizz Tate
Weird Era - June 02, 2023 01:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 wo...