163 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (with Sarah Bird)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Jacke welcomes author Sarah Bird to the program to talk about her background, her writing, and her readerly passion for the fiction of the great twentieth-century novelist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (1927-2014) was one of the most revered and influential novelists of the twentieth century. Born in a small town in Colombia, which he later made famous as the fictionalized village "Macondo," he drew upon the stories and storytelling styles of his grandparents and parents to formulate what came to be called "magical realism." His books One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera have sold tens of millions of copies and stand as a testament to the power of fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. SARAH BIRD is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, the recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Award for Distinguished Writers, and a six-time winner of the Austin Chronicle’s Best Fiction Writer Award. Her most recent novel, Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen, tells the story of Cathy Williams, a former slave who disguised herself as a man in order to fight alongside the Buffalo Soldiers. Support the show at patreon.com/literature. Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	You can't understand how influential he was and how it just exploded at that time and everything became Garcia Marquez after that.
0:22.0	Yeah.
0:23.0	You could just see how writing change, how influential he was.
0:28.0	And you know, certainly by the time it's sort of filtered down to you it's so absorbed
0:35.4	it's so absorbed so many people it's just part of a vocabulary it's everything it's
0:39.9	everywhere it's it's done it you just don't understand how different it was
0:45.1	to to but I was so I was you know you know I borrowed my parents
0:50.6	Bolvo I so I was remember there Bolvo 240, and I was driving over to the sky.
0:55.5	I was madly wealthy, crazy in love with, and, but I was also in the middle of reading
1:01.5	a hundred years, and I just remember just stopping outside of
1:05.6	his house turning on the dome light and reading because you know as a
1:09.8	learning as that prospect you know inside there was I could not stop reading. That was author Sarah Bird talking about her youthful passion, where should I say, passions.
1:35.0	Her wild love is waiting for her inside the house, but another love attracts her as well, out there
1:42.2	in the car, under the dome light as she reads for
1:46.1	the first time the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez it gives me goosebumps and I had goosebumps.
1:53.0	And I had goosebumps during my conversation with Sarah as we discussed her latest novel.
1:59.0	Daughter of a daughter of a daughter of a queen, which tells the story of a real life slave named Kathy Williams,
2:06.1	who served in the Union Army as a cook and a washerwoman,
2:10.0	and then, after the war was over, disguised herself as a man, reenlisted, this time as a soldier
2:19.4	named William Kathy.
2:22.4	We'll have her story, and Sarah's story as a reader and writer,
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