In July, we partnered with the podcast What Happened Next, produced by author Nathan Whitlock. It’s a terrific show about, in Whitlock’s words, talking to “other writers about the times between books, when a book is no longer new and it’s time to write another one.” A couple of weeks ago, Whitlock spoke to writer and journalist Deborah Dundas, formerly the books editor for the Toronto Star and now one of its opinion editors. The occasion for the interview was Dundas’s first book, On Class, published by Biblioasis in 2023. But the two began by talking about Andrea Robin Skinner’s memoir that exposed her stepfather’s sexual abuse and Alice Munro’s knowledge of it—a story Dundas edited for the Star.
Here is an excerpt of that specific section of the exchange, which includes revelations that, to our knowledge, haven’t been aired yet. Of course, we encourage you to listen to the rest of the interview, available here, and to look for new episodes, which drop every Monday morning.
