Harold Rogers, TROPICÁLIA
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by boxing coach, stand-up comedian, and debut author Harold Rogers to discuss Tropicália, a sizzling and fearless story of a Rio de Janeiro family and the chaos that ensues in the days before a New Year’s Eve party in Copacabana Beach. Harold describes his childhood living between Ohio and Rio, the theme of loss and coping with absence in his novel, how much of his own life is portrayed in his story, and what his MFA and publishing journeys were like. He also shares what he enjoys reading and his best advice for aspiring writers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to |
| 0:47.0 | enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in |
| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically |
| 0:56.5 | my favorite thing. Enjoy. |
| 1:03.2 | Harold Rogers is the author of Tropicalia, a novel. Harold Rogers was born in Steubenville, |
| 1:08.4 | Ohio, to an American father and a Brazilian mother and grew up between the United States and Rio de Janeiro. |
| 1:13.9 | He holds a BA and philosophy from Miami University and an MFA from Columbia University. |
| 1:19.0 | He lives in New York City, where he works as a boxing coach and a stand-up comedian. |
| 1:23.0 | Welcome, Harold. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss your novel, |
| 1:28.4 | Tropicalia. Tropicalia. Calia? What do you think? Tropicalia. Yeah. That's right. Okay. Wonderful. |
| 1:35.0 | We'll tell listeners about your book. What's it about? Why'd you write it? All the good stuff. |
| 1:40.5 | All right. Well, really, it's about two siblings, Daniel and Lucia, were in their 20s and they're |
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