785. Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of the memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds, available from Doubleday. Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, where is this?
0:02.0	Bradlistee.
0:04.0	I love you.
0:05.0	I'm going to my
0:06.0	15.
0:07.0	Okay,
0:08.0	Hey everybody, how are you?
0:09.0	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:11.0	My name is Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.
0:13.0	Thanks for listening to the program.
0:16.0	Today, my guest is Ingrid Rojas Contreras,
0:20.0	author of a new memoir called The Man Who
0:23.3	Who Could Move Clouds.
0:25.2	And the way that stories can be like medicine is something that I do believe.
0:32.4	And each time that I've written a book, I think that I've arrived somewhere better. I just, I really believe in the way that
0:41.1	stories can guide us into thought, into feeling, into just being, and how that can be like an
0:51.5	investigation, or that can be like healing or that can be you know going deep
0:55.8	somewhere so I do I do think of it that way too all right that was ingrid Rojas contraris
1:03.1	her new memoir the man who could move clouds is available now from doublebleday.
1:15.4	I spoke with Ingrid Rojas Contreras after the publication of her debut novel,
1:18.8	Fruit of the Drunken Tree, a few years ago.
1:25.4	That book was the silver medal winner in first fiction from the California Book Awards,
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