562. Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the guest. Her debut novel, FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE (Doubleday), is a national bestseller, an Indie Next selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a New York Times editor's choice. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Contreras' essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Buzzfeed, Nylon, and Guernica, among others. She is the book columnist for KQED, the Bay Area's NPR affiliate, teaches writing at the University of San Francisco, and works with immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing writers into public schools. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.9	Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the podcast today. Her debut novel is a national bestseller. It's called
1:01.6	Fruit of the Drunken Tree. It is available in hardcover from Doubleday. And it is due out in paperback
1:09.5	in May of 2019, if I have my dates correct.
1:13.8	So very pleased to have had a chance to sit down and talk with Ingrid Rojas-Contreras.
1:20.6	And I must confess too, am I supposed to say Ingrid Rojas-Contreras?
1:26.7	When I say a Latina name, am I supposed to use like the Spanish pronunciation?
1:35.6	If I'm being honest, I kind of feel like when a gringo does that, it's a little annoying.
1:39.6	It's like, okay, we get it.
1:41.3	You took Spanish.
1:42.2	You can roll your ours.
1:44.0	But I also, you know, what's the right thing to do?
1:46.6	I am genuinely perplexed.
1:49.8	Sort of like when, you know, I've talked about this.
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