In today’s episode I’ll be speaking with Christine ten Brummeler about her novel-in-progress, tentatively titled Paper Threads. Her novel uses the breakup of a marriage to explore different approaches to family, love, and commitment and how these twine with themes of acceptance, forgiveness, and regret. This season of Love and Defiance is written and produced by David Bezmozgis, and produced and edited by Reem Elmaghraby. Thanks for listening. We’ll be back next year with more students and more remarkable stories from the Humber School for Writers.
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Season 5 Episode 3 - Julie Birrell
In this episode, I speak with Julie Birrell, who worked with Marina Endicott on a manuscript called Indivisible about ghosts, power dynamics, and the potential for healing inspired by her work as a high school teacher in a children’s hospital. This season of Love and Defiance is written and produced by David Bezmozgis, and produced and edited by Reem Elmaghraby.
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Season 5 Episode 2 - Robert Pelletier
In this episode I speak with Robert Pelletier about his collection of stories which anatomize the strangeness, vulnerability, and isolation of contemporary life. This season of Love and Defiance is written and produced by David Bezmozgis, and produced and edited by Reem Elmaghraby.
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Season 5 Episode 1 - Live at The Black Box Sessions
Our first episode of Season 5 comes from the Black Box Session at the Toronto International Festival of Authors with a student from the Humber School for Writers. Our guest is Mike Sholars who took the Humber Mentorship Program in the fall of 2020. This season of Love and Defiance is written and produced by David Bezmozgis, and produced and edited by Reem Elmaghraby.
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Season 4 Episode 4 - Sumaiya Matin
In today’s episode I’ll be speaking with Sumaya Matin who worked on her memoir with Shyam Selvadurai. Titled The Shaytan Bride, it was published in 2021 by Dundurn Press and it is an account of Sumaiya’s immigration to Canada from Bangladesh as a young girl, her attempts to reconcile her Muslim faith with secular Canadian society and the patriarchal strictures placed on Muslim girls and women from within their own community which culminates, for Sumaiya, in an attempted forced marriage. This season of Love and Defiance is written and produced by David Bezmozgis, and produced and edited by Evan Gravelle. Thanks for listening. We’ll be back next year with more students and more remarkable stories from the Humber School for Writers.
The Love & Defiance podcast features Humber School for Writers students and graduates who’ve lived interesting or extraordinary lives and who have brought those experiences into their writing. Hosted by David Bezmozgis, Creative Director of the Humber School for Writers
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