844. Alejandra Oliva

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Alejandra Oliva is the author of Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration, available from Astra House. Oliva is an essayist, translator, immigrant justice advocate, and embroiderer. She is a recipient of the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Whiting Grant. Her writing has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2020, was nominated for a Pushcart prize, and was honored with an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowship. She was the Frankie Fellow at the Yale Whitney Hummanities Center in 2022. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. 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 TikTok 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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0:40.7	p.p.l.com. So my guest today is Alejandra Oliva, author of a new book called Rivermouth,
0:52.5	a chronicle of language, faith, and migration.
0:57.0	And that is the work that I hope this book does on a policy level, is to be like,
1:02.2	hey, this is not working. I can imagine better things. I am also not like a policy genius.
1:08.5	And so I think that the work that lies ahead of us,
1:13.5	we don't have to know exactly where we're going to at least start doing the work.
1:20.3	I think that we can start imagining a better future and working towards that without
1:25.3	knowing exactly what those details are.
1:29.7	All right, folks, that was Alejandra Oliva.
1:32.7	Her new book is called Rivermouth, a chronicle of language, faith, and migration out this week on Astra House.
1:41.8	Alejandra Oliva is a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist.
1:48.0	She is also a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.
1:52.0	And in this new book, Rivermouth, she brings readers into embracing, at times harrowing, and deeply moving exploration of the modern immigration crisis in America.
2:06.6	And really, it's a crisis that extends all around the world at this point.
2:12.5	In Rivermouth, we are dealing with what I would call a hybrid work of literature, part memoir, part
2:20.4	spiritual meditation, part polemic, part family history, and more.
2:26.9	Alejandra Oliva has worked with asylum seekers since 2016.
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