Ep. 226 A Literal Relationship with the Past with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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We're joined today by novelist and essayist Ingrid Rojas Contreras, whose new book The Man Who Could Move Clouds combines memoir with rich storytelling and an excavation of family and Colombian history. We discuss magical realism as a nonfiction genre, why it's useful to believe in ghosts, and ask the question, what responsibility do we owe to our pasts?

You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2022/08/03/ep-226-ingrid-rojas-contreras

The Stacks Book Club selection for August is How To Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee. We will discuss the book on August 31st with Ingrid Rojas Contreras.

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0:00.0	All right, we are down to our last three cities for the live in the stacks tour, and if the first two stops were any indication, you do not want to miss this tour.
0:11.0	I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th. I will be in New York City with KSA layman on September 25th, and I will be in Los Angeles on October 18th with three guests.
0:23.5	Yes, three guests, three of my favorite friends of the podcast, Rachel Lindsay, Chelsea Devantes, and Sam Sanders.
0:32.0	The show promises a night of big laughs, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could possibly imagine.
0:38.5	Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour right now before they sell out.
0:54.5	Welcome to the stackspodcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas, and on today's episode, we are joined by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, an award-winning author to talk about her new memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds.
1:08.5	The book focuses on what her family called the secrets, their power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and even move the clouds.
1:17.5	And what happened when Ingrid's amnesia experience was mistaken for an inherited, extra-century gift.
1:22.5	Today we talk about this stunning memoir, the need to believe in ghosts, and so much more.
1:28.5	Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes.
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1:54.5	And shout out to our newest member, Beverly Burgess, and a huge thank you to every single person in the stacks pack.
2:00.5	Alright, let's get to it, my chat with Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
2:04.5	Alright everybody, I am really excited.
2:12.5	I am joined today by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, who is the author of the brand new The Man Who Could Move Cloud, which is her memoir.
2:21.5	I want to talk about genre, but before we do, welcome to the stacks.
2:25.5	Oh, thank you. I'm so happy to be here.
2:27.5	I'm thrilled to have you.
2:29.5	I took a lot of notes reading your book because so many different things came up for me.
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