{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Forigin-story.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fallegra-hyde-dHjc_JUz","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Allegra Hyde (Eleutheria) On Writing a Different Kind of Climate Change Novel and the Power of Utopian Thinking","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/ada502ac-cde7-4a2d-8305-57a1fe1f3e3c/9cc2d4ad-1815-434c-8bcc-d0b7f9a41247/origin-story-cover-bigger-3000.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/a97cbe54-7c41-4faf-ab0f-6dc1cd0ee5e9\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Allegra Hyde (Eleutheria) On Writing a Different Kind of Climate Change Novel and the Power of Utopian Thinking\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Allegra Hyde is the author of Eleutheria\" as well as the short story collection, Of This New World  which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award through the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series. \n\nIn her debut novel, Eleutheria, is a story of idealism, activism, and systemic corruption, centered on a naïve young woman's quest for agency in a world ravaged by climate change.\n\nWe talked with Hyde about writing her debut novel, the power in utopian thinking in both fiction and real life, the promise and failures of activist groups, the struggles of being a working writer, and more.\n\nHosted by Phillip Russell and Ben Thorp"}