BONUS - Sandra Cisneros is in her 'magical mystery period'

Wild Card with Rachel Martin

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 991 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Sandra Cisneros is best known for her debut novel, The House on Mango Street, which follows a year in the life of a young Chincana girl. For the 40th anniversary of that book, Sandra joined Rachel for a conversation in front of a live audience at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Sandra shared a story about a teacher who changed her life and talked about why she's excited about death.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from the Walton Family Foundation, working to create access to opportunity for people and communities by tackling tough social and environmental problems.
0:12.0	More information is at waltonfamilyfoundation.org.
0:16.9	Hey, wildcard listeners, we've got a special addition to our feed this week.
0:21.3	A little bonus episode with the writer and poet Sandra Cisneros.
0:24.6	I talked to her this summer at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., in front of a live audience.
0:30.0	Sandra is most famous for writing a novel called The House on Mango Street, which centered the life in the voice of a young Chicana in a time when
0:38.0	not a lot of books like that were getting published. We were talking as a way to mark the 40th
0:42.8	anniversary of that book. But to my extreme delight, Sondra was up for playing an abbreviated
0:48.1	version of Wild Card on stage. And that's what we're sharing with you today. I was nervous
0:53.3	because I wasn't sure if being
0:54.3	in front of a big crowd would kill the intimacy of the game, but instead it created an exciting
0:59.5	energy in the room. Could have been the fact that everyone there was hanging on her every word. I mean,
1:04.8	she is so very good at words, after all. It was also one of the rare times I got to actually
1:09.8	interview a guest in person.
1:12.0	And Sondra used the opportunity to put her hands up to the cards and actually catch a vibe
1:18.1	from them that determined which one she chose. It was really fun. Okay, here's my live conversation
1:24.2	with Sandra Cisneros. Okay, so there's three rounds, folks, in this game, and there are a couple of things
1:32.9	to remember. You have two tools at your disposal. You have a skip, so if a question isn't
1:39.4	resonating with you, you can just say, skip, please, and I'll replace it with another question
1:43.7	from the deck. And you have a flip. The flip puts me on the spot. You can just say, skip please, and I'll replace it with another question from the deck.
1:44.6	And you have a flip. The flip puts me on the spot. You can ask me to answer the question before you.
1:50.9	You do not have to deploy either of these tools, but they are there for you. Okay? And when we get to the end, there's a special treat.
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