{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67f6cc8f0c09f66202906ee8/693b1f8a4d362887b72d9ef2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Renée D. Bondy","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/67f6cc8f0c09f66202906ee8/1765482297286-2428db26-eab6-4f2a-98be-6544a6fe1986.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>My guest on this episode is Renée D. Bondy. Renée’s writing has appeared in <em>Herizons</em>, <em>Bitch</em>, <em>Bearings</em> <em>Online</em>, and the <em>Humber Literary Review</em>. Her debut novel, <em>[non]disclosure</em>, was published by Second Story Press in 2024. Author Julie S. Lalonde called <em>[non]disclosure</em> “a true masterclass on the power of solidarity and how community can either sustain us or drag us under.”</p><p><br></p><p>Renée and I talk about how she is adjusting to her relatively luxurious new writing space, about swerving into literary fiction after a life spent as an academic and activist, and about how the difficulty of the issues she explores in her debut novel led her to put support structures in places at the launch event for it.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This podcast is produced and hosted by </strong><a href=\"https://www.nathanwhitlock.ca/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nathan Whitlock</strong></a><strong>, in partnership with </strong><a href=\"https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Walrus</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong></p><p><strong>Music: \"simple-hearted thing\" by&nbsp;</strong><a href=\"https://alukashevsky.bandcamp.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alex Lukashevsky</strong></a><strong>. Used with permission. </strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Nathan Whitlock"}