Episode 235
Interview - Emily A. Weedon and Hemo Sapiens
Canada Reads American Style · Canada Reads American Style
September 24, 202522m 47sExplicit
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Show Notes
Tara chats with Emily Weedon, a Canadian author and screenwriter, currently living in Toronto. Her web series Chateau Laurier was the most awarded web series in 2023 and won a Canadian Screen Award. Her debut novel Autokrator reimagines gender and power in society against the backdrop of a dystopian world. Her new novel, Hemo Sapiens, will be released into the world on September 30, 2025 from Dundurn Press. It is an erotic noir thriller that reimagines vampires through a lens of female sexuality and anthropology.
Books mentioned for Currently Reading:
- The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgård
- The Problem with Having a Body by Jessica Popeski
- All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety by David A. Robertson
- Runs in the Blood by Matthew J. Trafford