Rodrigo García, A FAREWELL TO GABO AND MERCEDES: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by director and screenwriter Rodrigo García to talk about his debut memoir, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes. Rodrigo explains how the book began with notes he took in the immediate period after the death of his father, Gabriel García Márquez, but only truly took shape following the passing of his mother Mercedes in 2020. Rodrigo explains to Zibby that he intended for the book to be a goodbye letter to the two individuals who were his parents before they were artists, and to serve as a way for his family to grieve the losses of the people they loved as well as the lives they helped shape.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
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| 0:26.7 | have time to write on Medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books. |
| 0:32.3 | And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:40.8 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to |
| 0:45.7 | Kids. Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. Hi, my name is Amy Agresti, |
| 0:52.8 | and I'm thrilled to have contributed to moms don't have time to have |
| 0:55.8 | kids. My essay is called Can a Writer Be Too Emotional, Asking for a Friend? And what I really don't have time for is writing, sure, but also figuring out how to use my phone properly. This is the first voice memo I've ever made. How am I doing? Anyway, read this anthology. It's |
| 1:12.7 | amazing. Rodriguez. Rodrigo Garcia is the author of A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes, a son's memoir of |
| 1:18.8 | Gabriel Garcia-Marquez and Mercedes Barca. Rodrigico Garcia was born in Colombia, grew up in Mexico |
| 1:24.7 | City, and studied history at Harvard University. His features as |
| 1:28.4 | writer and director include Nine Lives, Albert Knobbs, and Last Days in the Desert. |
| 1:33.6 | Garcia has directed for television series such as Six Feet Under the Sopranos and the Pilot of |
| 1:38.7 | Big Love for which he received an Emmy nomination. He also directed several episodes for HBO's |
| 1:43.4 | In Treatment, which, by the way, |
| 1:45.0 | I was obsessed with and watched every episode, where in addition to directing, he served as writer, |
| 1:50.3 | executive producer, and series showrunner. So I probably should have talked to him about how much |
| 1:55.0 | I love the show, but I didn't. Oh, well, Garcia currently resides in Los Angeles with his family. |
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