Latest Indiebooks Podcast Episodes
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...
Episode 53: Weird Era feat. Henry Hoke
Weird Era - May 26, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 Wri...
Episode 52: Weird Era feat. Stephanie LaCava
Weird Era - May 19, 2023 01:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 Fe...
Episode 51: Weird Era feat. Catherine Lacey
Weird Era - May 12, 2023 01:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 Yo...
Episode 50: Weird Era feat. Lindsay Wong
Weird Era - April 28, 2023 01:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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...
Episode 49: Weird Era feat. Michael DeForge
Weird Era - April 19, 2023 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 fe...
Episode 48: Weird Era feat. Colin Winnette
Weird Era - April 12, 2023 18:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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...
Episode 47: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Sean Thor Conroe
Weird Era - September 09, 2022 01:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 ...
Episode 46: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Justin Long
Weird Era - August 26, 2022 01:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 awar...
Episode 46: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Justin Ling
Weird Era - August 26, 2022 01:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 awar...
Episode 45: Weird Era feat. Joshua Whitehead
Weird Era - August 19, 2022 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 depar...
Episode 44: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Elif Batuman
Weird Era - July 29, 2022 01:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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...
Episode 43: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Jackson Howard
Weird Era - July 15, 2022 01:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJackson 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, Cather...
Episode 42: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Lillian Fishman
Weird Era - July 08, 2022 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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 desir...
Episode 41: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Naben Ruthnum
Weird Era - July 01, 2022 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsABOUT 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 a...
Episode 40: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Heather O'Neill
Weird Era - June 24, 2022 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbout 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, whi...
Episode 39: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Rollie Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon
Weird Era - June 17, 2022 01:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsABOUT ROLLIE PEMBERTON: He is a writer, rapper, producer, poet and activist who performs under the name Cadence Weapon. He won the 2021 Polaris Music Prize for his album Parallel World. His writing has been published in Pitchfork, The Guardian, Wired and Hazlitt. Currently based in Toronto, Pembe...
Episode 38: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Bud Smith
Weird Era - June 10, 2022 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsABOUT BUD SMITH: Bud Smith works heavy construction in New Jersey. His story "Violets" appeared in The Paris Review. He released his debut novel this year, titled: Teenager. ABOUT TEENAGER: Kody Rawlee Green is stuck in juvie. Tella “Teal Cartwheels” Carticelli is packing her bags for Rome--on th...
Episode 37: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Mayukh Sen
Weird Era - December 03, 2021 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMayukh Sen is a James Beard and IACP Award–winning writer based in Brooklyn. His work has been anthologized in two editions of The Best American Food Writing. He teaches food journalism at New York University. About Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America Who’s real...
Episode 36: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Jo Hamya
Weird Era - November 26, 2021 02:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJO HAMYA was born in London in 1997. After living in Miami for a few years, she completed an English degree at King’s College London and a MSt in contemporary literature and culture at Oxford University. There, she divided her research between updating twentieth-century cultural theory into twent...
Episode 35: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Claire Vaye Watkins
Weird Era - November 19, 2021 02:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsClaire Vaye Watkins is the author of the short story collection Battleborn and the novel Gold Fame Citrus. She has received the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts...
Episode 34: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Todd Babiak
Weird Era - November 12, 2021 02:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTODD BABIAK's most recent novels are The Empress of Idaho, Son of France, and Come Barbarians, which was a Globe and Mail Book of the Year and a number one bestseller. His earlier work includes The Garneau Block, which was a national bestseller, a longlisted title for the Scotiabank Giller Prize,...
Episode 33: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Eli Tareq el Bechelany Lynch
Weird Era - November 05, 2021 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer Arab poet living in Tio'tia:ke, unceded Kanien'kehá:ka territory (Montreal). Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology, GUTS, carte blanche, the Shade Journal, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, Room Magazine, and elsewhere. Th...
Episode 32: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Brian Evenson
Weird Era - October 29, 2021 01:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBrian Evenson is the author of over a dozen works of fiction. He has received three O. Henry Prizes for his fiction. His most recent book, Song for the Unraveling of the World, won a World Fantasy Award and a Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Pri...
Episode 31: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Rivka Galchen
Weird Era - October 22, 2021 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics wa...
Episode 30: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Helen Chau Bradley
Weird Era - October 08, 2021 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHelen Chau Bradley is a writer and musician living in Tio'tia:ke / Montreal. They are the author of Automatic Object Lessons (House House Press, 2020). Their stories and essays have appeared in carte blanche, Cosmonauts Avenue, Entropy Magazine, Maisonneuve Magazine, the Montreal Review of Books,...
Episode 29: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Sruti Islam
Weird Era - October 01, 2021 17:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHosted by Sruti Islam and Alex Nierenhausen Theme Songs by Gino Visconti and Michael Jaworski (@mikejaws) Audio Production by Kyel Loadenthal
Episode 28: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Natasha Brown
Weird Era - September 24, 2021 01:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNatasha Brown has spent a decade working in financial services, after studying Maths at Cambridge University. She developed Assembly after receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category. About Assembly One woman. One day. One decision. A blistering, fearless, and unforgett...
Episode 27: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Alexandra Kleeman
Weird Era - September 17, 2021 01:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAlexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among other publications...
Episode 26: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Michael LaPointe
Weird Era - September 10, 2021 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael LaPointe's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the Times Literary Supplement. He writes the "Dice Roll" column for The Paris Review. His fiction has appeared in The Walrus and Hazlitt. He has been nominated for the National Magazine Awards, the Jo...