Podcast appearances and mentions of Marie Arana

Latino no es una raza, sino una identidad en constante evolución. En este episodio, Marie Arana nos explica el origen del término “latino”, la diversidad cultural y política de esta comunidad, y cómo la religión, la historia y la migración han definido lo que significa ser latino en EE.UU. y más allá.www.linktr.ee/bibliotequeando

For he flatters himself in his own eyesthat his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.-Psalm 36:2 This Episode's Links and Timestamps:00:00 – Scripture Reading02:13 – Introduction15:48 – Whether the “Man Flu” is, in fact, a thing.34:42 –We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan – Donna Lu, The Guardian39:43 -White House Cancels Subscriptions to Politico After Spending $8.2M Since 2016 – HeadlineRoundup, AllSides44:48 -Report: Christianity Today received $1.8M in USAID grants in 2023 – Mik Olson, NTB56:58 -Secretary Hegseth says a major financial overhaul of the Pentagon is coming so it can actually pass an audit – Harris Rigby, NTB1:06:20 –“Captain America” in 2025: "To me, Captain America represents a lot of things.. and America isn't one of them." – Graham Allen, X.com1:17:02 –‘Bolívar: American Liberator' by Marie Arana - Goodreads

Marie Arana is an author, former Washington Post reporter, and former Literary Director of the Library of Congress. Through her books and work, she has dedicated herself to creating a unified narrative for the Hispanic community, with notable works such as Bolívar: American Liberator, American Chica, and LatinoLand.EPISODE LINKS:Bolivar: American Liberator:https://amzn.to/4aPAvKULatinoLand:https://amzn.to/4jMQDAVAmerican Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood:https://amzn.to/413DHPMOther Marie Arana's Books:https://amzn.to/4gA2U94OUTLINE:0:00 - Introduction1:36 - Dad: Unconditional Love4:47 - Family Values8:40 - Writing a Book in Spanish10:27 - What Drives Marie Arana?12:55 - Advice for Writers16:01 - Latinos Don't Have a Unified Narrative19:00 - Movies22:46 - What's Marie Arana's Big Dream?27:00 - Closing WordsSOCIAL:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/uiuctalkshowX:https://twitter.com/uiuctalkshowTikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@uiuctalkshowPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/uiuctalkshowSpotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3ezoc4xJa4DrGq7N4lhqQnApple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-uiuc-talkshow/id1611427075Full episodes playlist:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1H9UJqXvJXr3qlx9c89Rv76c6IpnwGeCClips Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@UIUCTalkshowClipsWhat is the UIUC Talkshow?Our goal with this show is to introduce you to the most interesting people with the most interesting ideas.Consider Supporting UsIf you enjoy our talk show and videos, your support means the world to us! Your contributions help us keep the show running and focus on creating interesting conversations with interesting people. Every dollar goes towards our basic needs, allowing us to dedicate more time and energy to this project.Support us here:https://www.patreon.com/uiuctalkshowJoin The UIUC Talkshow Community!Become part of our community and unlock exclusive access to the latest episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and special updates. Be the first to know about upcoming guests and new episodes!Join here:https://uiuctalkshow.substack.com/Learn more about Juan David & Aaryaman:AaryamanWebsite:https://www.aaryamanpatel.com/LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaryamanpatel/Twitter:https://twitter.com/aaryamanpatelJuan DavidWebsite:https://www.juandavidcampolargo.com/Twitter:https://twitter.com/jdcampolargoLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdcampolargoInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/jdcampolargo/

“Latinos are not a monolith” is something we hear whenever politicians want to court Latino voters, and no one understands the nuances of this community quite like journalist and author Marie Arana. She's the author of “LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority," which explores the complexities, histories and cultures of Latinos in the United States.In this moment of political change, Maria Hinojosa sits down with Marie Arana to discuss just how wide-ranging Latinidad is, unpack this community's place in U.S.political history, and reflect on the future of Latinos in this country.Follow us on TikTok and YouTube. Subscribe to our newsletter by going to the top of our homepage. 

Marie Arana es autora de varios libros que han sido fundamentales para entender la historia de los latinos en los Estados Unidos. Latinoland, un estudio enciclopédico es uno de ellos, como también lo es American Chica y La plata, la espada y la piedra. Hoy celebramos que llega a Hablemos, escritoras con la traducción al español de Latinoland que será seguramente muy bien recibido. Investigadora de origen peruano que llegó a los Estados Unidos a los 9 años de edad y es prueba viviente del impacto que los latinos tenemos en este gran país. Ha escrito sobre el controversial personaje de la historia del Cono Sur, Simón Bolívar y ha sido editora del Washington Post, jurado de premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award. En abril de 2009, Arana fue nombrada “Académico Distinguido John W. Kluge” en la Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos. 

This week, to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, hear from Marie Arana, the Literary Director of the Library of Congress. Joined by author Juan Martinez, Arana discusses the importance of preserving and uplifting Latino history and her new book LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority. This conversation originally took place May [...]

This week, to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, hear from Marie Arana, the Literary Director of the Library of Congress. Joined by author Juan Martinez, Arana discusses the importance of preserving and uplifting Latino history and her new book LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority.This conversation originally took place May 19, 2024 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival.AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOMEAbout LatinoLand:"A perfect representation of Latino diversity" (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in "a work of prophecy, sympathy, and courage" (Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author).LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise twenty percent of the US population, a number that is growing. By 2050, census reports project that one in every three Americans will claim Latino heritage.But Latinos are not a monolith. They do not represent a single group. The largest groups are Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Cubans. Each has a different cultural and political background. Puerto Ricans, for example, are US citizens, whereas some Mexican Americans never immigrated because the US-Mexico border shifted after the US invasion of 1848, incorporating what is now the entire southwest of the United States. Cubans came in two great waves: those escaping communism in the early years of Castro, many of whom were professionals and wealthy, and those permitted to leave in the Mariel boat lift twenty years later, representing some of the poorest Cubans, including prisoners.As LatinoLand shows, Latinos were some of the earliest immigrants to what is now the US—some of them arriving in the 1500s. They are racially diverse—a random infusion of white, Black, indigenous, and Asian. Once overwhelmingly Catholic, they are becoming increasingly Protestant and Evangelical. They range from domestic workers and day laborers to successful artists, corporate CEOs, and US senators. Formerly solidly Democratic, they now vote Republican in growing numbers. They are as culturally varied as any immigrants from Europe or Asia.Marie Arana draws on her own experience as the daughter of an American mother and Peruvian father who came to the US at age nine, straddling two worlds, as many Latinos do. "Thorough, accessible, and necessary" (Ms. magazine), LatinoLand unabashedly celebrates Latino resilience and character and shows us why we must understand the fastest-growing minority in America.MARIE ARANA is a Peruvian-American author of nonfiction and fiction as well as the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of a 2020 literary award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Among her recent positions are: Director of the National Book Festival, the John W. Kluge Center's Chair of the Cultures of the Countries of the South, and Writer at Large for the Washington Post. For many years, she was editor-in-chief of the Washington Post's book review section, Book World. Marie has also written for the New York Times, the National Geographic, Time Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, Spain's El País, Colombia's El Tiempo, and Peru's El Comercio, among many other publications. Her sweeping history of Latin America, Silver, Sword, and Stone, was named Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 by the American Library Association, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence. Her biography of Simón Bolívar won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Marie's memoir, American Chica, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. She has also published two prizewinning novels, Cellophane and Lima Nights.JUAN MARTINEZ is the author of the novel Extended Stay (2023) and the story collection Best Worst American (2017). He lives near Chicago and is an associate professor at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Huizache, Ecotone, NIGHTMARE, NPR's Selected Shorts, Mississippi Review and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Ploughshares and The Sunday Morning Transport.

Hablamos en Milwaukee con Eric Olson de la Seattle International Foundation; en Washington con Juan Pappier, subdirector para las Américas de Human Rights Watch, y en la misma ciudad con Marie Arana, autora de "Latinoland"

The Authors Guild Foundation's WIT: Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Literary Festival will return next month to Lenox, MA and explore the theme: The Power of Words: Why Writers Matter. It runs from Friday, September 27 - Sunday, September 29th. Marie Arana, President of the Authors Guild Foundation Board of Directors, will join us this morning for a preview.Marie Arana is a prizewinning author, critic, and former Literary Director of the Library of Congress.

Today on AirTalk, everything you need to know about the upcoming November ballot measure known as the Taxpayer Protection Act. Also on the show, FilmWeek critic Justin Chang drops by AirTalk to talk about winning a Pulitzer for criticism; we take a peek at the upcoming summer schedule at the Hollywood Bowl; author Marie Arana discusses her new book Latinoland: A portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority; and more. FilmWeek critic Justin Chang on Pulitzer win (00:17) Hollywood Bowl's 2024 summer schedule (21:27) Navigating relationships with ex in-laws (34:50) Latest on Taxpayer Protection Act (51:27) Trumpet legend Herb Alpert (1:08:12) 'LatinoLand' explores U.S.'s fastest-growing minority (1:24:31)

There are 64 million Latinos in the United States – nearly 20% of the population. By 2050, it's projected that a third of the country's population will be Latino. But despite being such a significant part of the country, Latinos are still often viewed as being immigrants, not fully American – even though they've been a part of American life for centuries. Join us as host Eddie Robinson chats candidly with renowned author and journalist, Marie Arana. Her latest book, LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority, draws from hundreds of interviews and expansive research that not only examine the diverse background of the fastest-growing minority in this country, but also the importance of understanding their history and contributions to this country. Arana, who also served as the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress, shares her own provocative story from growing up in Lima, Peru to arriving in Summit, New Jersey in the wake of the murder of Emmett Till – an African American teen whose death reinvigorated the Civil Rights Movement. She tells I SEE U that Latinos have largely been invisible with a cultural influence that has for too long been dismissed or hidden from public view. Her mission is to encourage all Americans to discover more about this burgeoning population—while the Latino community grapples with understanding its own past, its promising future and its inherent power.

Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Marie Arana, author of LatinoLand.  LatinoLand is an all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise 20 percent of the US population, a number that is growing. By 2050, census reports project that one in every three Americans will claim Latino heritage.  Marie Arana draws on her own experience as the daughter of an American mother and Peruvian father who came to the US at age nine, straddling two worlds, as many Latinos do.  Learn more about LatinoLand at Marie Arana - Latinoland: America's Largest and Least Understood Minority.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/  

In conversation with Elisabeth Perez-Luna, contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer and former Executive Producer of Audio Content at WHYY   The inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress, Marie Arana is the author of the National Book Award finalist American Chica, a memoir about her childhood in Peru and the United States that was praised for its ''spareness, clarity, and passion for allegory'' (The New York Times Book Review). Her other work includes the novels Cellophane and Lima Nights; a biography of Simon Bolivar that won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Silver, Sword, and Stone, a narrative history of Latin America; and The Writing Life, a collection of her articles for The Washington Post. In Latinoland, Arana employs hundreds of interviews, a prolific body of research, and her own experiences as a Latina to present an encompassing portrait of America's fastest-growing minority group. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. (recorded 3/4/2024)

More than one hundred people have been killed while gathered around food aid trucks in Gaza city, according to the Ministry of Health there. Despite disputed timelines, Israeli forces say they did open fire. This comes in the context of a dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, where the UN says over half a million people are "one step away from famine." Mark Regev is special adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and he joins the show from Tel Aviv.  Also on today's show: Kara Swisher, Author, “Burn Book”; Marie Arana, Author, “Latinoland”; Josh Paul, Former US State Department Official  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Writer Marie Arana shares stories and little-known histories of the diverse Latino population of America, the fastest-growing minority in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer Marie Arana shares stories and little-known histories of the diverse Latino population of America, the fastest-growing minority in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arana is a prize-winning author, literary critic, and inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress. She has been an executive at publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Harcourt Brace, a judge for the National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes, a Latin America columnist for the New York Times editorial page, a media commentator for numerous news outlets, and editor in chief of Book World at the Washington Post. Join us as we explore her incredible literary contributions and discuss her upcoming projects.

Tour guides from Hungary discuss their country's love of paprika and set us straight on what makes for good goulash. Then the literary director of the Library of Congress and bicultural author Marie Arana examines the cultural divide between the US and Latin America, and explains its thousand-year-old historical roots. And we learn why the lesser-known region of Galicia, in Spain's northwest corner, is where Spaniards go to escape from heat (and tourist crowds). For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

Marie Arana is the award-winning Peruvian-American author of Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story, a book about a whole continent that manages not to be a thousand pages long—even though it covers about a thousand years of history. She makes the compelling case that there are really three driving forces behind the entire region: exploitation and extraction; violence; and religion. Of course, all of these forces are deeply interrelated—and that's the point. To drive home how tangled the past is with the present, Arana weaves the stories of three contemporary Latin Americans together with a millennium of history to ultimately show why you can't really explain the rest of the world without first understanding the story of Latin America.Go beyond the episode:Marie Arana's Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American StoryRead Richard Moe's review on our website (“a long-overdue and persuasive corrective”)Here's a less blood-soaked tale from the cloisters of Peru: librarian Helen Hazen on a clutch of rare books tucked away in an Andean conventTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and Literary Director of the Library of Congress Marie Arana explore the themes of their roots, their creativity, and how their origin stories feed them and their work. This conversation originally took place May 15, 2022 at the inaugural American Writers Festival and was recorded live. In 2019, Joy [...]

This week, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and Literary Director of the Library of Congress Marie Arana explore the themes of their roots, their creativity, and how their origin stories feed them and their work. This conversation originally took place May 15, 2022 at the inaugural American Writers Festival and was recorded live. In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo's nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, which invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. She has edited several anthologies of Native American writing including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and Living Nations, Living Words, the companion anthology to her signature poet laureate project. Her many writing awards include the 2019 Jackson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts. Marie Arana is a Peruvian-American author of nonfiction and fiction as well as the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of a 2020 literary award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Among her recent positions are: Director of the National Book Festival, the John W. Kluge Center's Chair of the Cultures of the Countries of the South, and Writer at Large for the Washington Post. For many years, she was editor-in-chief of the Washington Post's book review section, Book World. Marie has also written for the New York Times, the National Geographic, Time Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, Spain's El País, Colombia's El Tiempo, and Peru's El Comercio, among many other publications. Her sweeping history of Latin America, Silver, Sword, and Stone, was named Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 by the American Library Association, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence. Her biography of Simón Bolívar won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Marie's memoir, American Chica, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. She has also published two prizewinning novels, Cellophane and Lima Nights.

Esta es una muestra de "Bolívar". La versión completa tiene una duración total de 22 h 47 min. Encuentra este audiolibro completo en https://bit.ly/3RZBEpmNarrado por: Malena Rospigliosi BonillaSimón Bolívar se ganó el sobrenombre de El Libertador tras poner fin al dominio español sobre seis países. Su vida fue heroica, trágica y legendaria: viajó del Amazonas a los Andes, libró eternas batallas, forjó alianzas entre razas rivales... Partiendo de un gran abanico de fuentes, Marie Arana captura un vívido retrato de la Suramérica de inicios del siglo XIX, la que forjó a Bolívar y lo convirtió en un valeroso general, un estratega brillante, un escritor portentoso y un político sin parangón; en definitiva, uno de los personajes más admirados de Latinoamérica. Bolívar es una biografía trepidante en la que el lector hallará la imagen de una vida trágica capturada en todo su esplendor y un conmovedor manifiesto de la verdadera esencia del pueblo latinoamericano.© 2022, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U.#penguinaudio #audiolibro #audiolibros #Arana #MarieArana See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Asylum-seeking refugees at the southern border often dominate national headlines and ignite contentious debates on how to address the crisis. But why and what are they fleeing? Award-winning author Marie Arana examines the critical forces—including exploitation, violence, and religion—that have shaped Latin America for the past millennium and continue to reverberate today. Recorded on July 23, 2020 

Journalist and author Marie Arana describes her cross-cultural experience of growing up in both Peru and the US, and another author, Linda Leaming — one of very few Americans to ever live in the Himalayan nation of Bhutan — shares her experiences of teaching in and marrying into Bhutanese culture. Plus Spanish tour guide Jorge Román joins Rick to discuss what made Barcelona a booming tourism destination before the pandemic, and offers suggestions for visiting the city's less touristy attractions. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

Repasamos las perspectivas y reveladores mensajes de la doctora Elizabeth Stanley, el expresidente colombiano Juan Manuel Santos y la galardonada autora Marie Arana sobre el estrés, la polarización y la violencia en América Latina.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Marie Arana is the award-winning Peruvian-American author of Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story, a book about a whole continent that manages not to be a thousand pages long—even though it covers about a thousand years of history. She makes the compelling case that there are really three driving forces behind the entire region: exploitation and extraction; violence; and religion. Of course, all of these forces are deeply interrelated—and that’s the point. To drive home how tangled the past is with the present, Arana weaves the stories of three contemporary Latin Americans together with a millennium of history to ultimately show why you can’t really explain the rest of the world without first understanding the story of Latin America.Go beyond the episode:Marie Arana’s Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American StoryRead Richard Moe’s review on our website (“a long-overdue and persuasive corrective”)Here’s a less blood-soaked tale from the cloisters of Peru: librarian Helen Hazen on a clutch of rare books tucked away in an Andean conventTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marie Arana is the award-winning Peruvian-American author of Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story, a book about a whole continent that manages not to be a thousand pages long—even though it covers about a thousand years of history. She makes the compelling case that there are really three driving forces behind the entire region: exploitation and extraction; violence; and religion. Of course, all of these forces are deeply interrelated—and that’s the point. To drive home how tangled the past is with the present, Arana weaves the stories of three contemporary Latin Americans together with a millennium of history to ultimately show why you can’t really explain the rest of the world without first understanding the story of Latin America.Go beyond the episode:Marie Arana’s Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American StoryRead Richard Moe’s review on our website (“a long-overdue and persuasive corrective”)Here’s a less blood-soaked tale from the cloisters of Peru: librarian Helen Hazen on a clutch of rare books tucked away in an Andean conventTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On December 5, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a special event featuring author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. This event was introduced by Aminatta Forna and moderated by Marie Arana.Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels, including The Shape of the Ruins (2018), which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations (2013), a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling (2011), a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years in France, Belgium, and Spain, he now lives in Bogotá.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

Hosts Ken and Victoria speak to Arana about her new book Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin America Story, where she narrates the history of Latin America and the region’s relationship with Western cultures.

Only on the "CBS This Morning" podcast, writer Marie Arana tells CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz about why she decided to take on what she calls the "impossible task" of explaining "a hemisphere and its people" in her new book, "Silver, Sword and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story." Arana blends historical analysis and in-depth reporting to explain the region by identifying its three dominant influences: exploitation, violence, and religion. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Only on the "CBS This Morning" podcast, writer Marie Arana tells CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz about why she decided to take on what she calls the "impossible task" of explaining "a hemisphere and its people" in her new book, "Silver, Sword and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story." Arana blends historical analysis and in-depth reporting to explain the region by identifying its three dominant influences: exploitation, violence, and religion.

In Marie Arana’s sweeping saga of the influence of economic exploitation, violence, and religion on the history of Latin America, SILVER, SWORD, & STONE, she uses those three themes to tie the past to the present. Fusing history with journalism, she tells the stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent the three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region. Marie Arana, a Peruvian-American author of nonfiction and fiction, is also literary director of the National Book Festival.

Marie Arana’s Silver, Sword, and Stone takes the readers from pre-Columbian times through the region’s conquest, independence movements, dirty wars, and right down to the present. In doing so, the book explores three driving forces in the region’s history: mining—and particularly mining, violence, and religion through the tales of three contemporary Latin Americans. In this episode, the award-winning author tells AS/COA’s Carin Zissis why she wrote this sweeping history now. Find out more about her work at www.mariearana.net.

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Reference Librarians Catalina Gómez and Talía Guzmán-González speak with writer an journalist Marie Arana and discuss an excerpt from a historic 1977 recording of Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez from the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape.

Sep. 5, 2015. Louise Erdrich receives the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. She discusses her work with Marie Arana, co-director of the festival. Speaker Biography: The winner of the 2015 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Louise Erdrich is the author of novels, poetry, short stories, children's books and nonfiction books. She is one of the most acclaimed Ojibwe Native American writers and has received a Pushcart Prize, a National Book Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. Her novel "The Plague of Doves" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Erdrich's other books include "Love Medicine," "Four Souls," "The Painted Drum," "Shadow Tag," and her latest work, "The Round House." She lives in Minnesota, where she is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore that focuses on Native American literature. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6901

We discuss biographies this episode.Their power resides in their place in history. New facts emerge, new understandings reshape our understandings of the person. Biographies remind us the ways the present influences the past. Biographies we mentioned in this episode“Steve Jobs, Insanely Great” by Jesse Hartland“Jonas Salk, A Life,” by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs“Daughters of the Samuri: A Journey From East and West and Back” Janice P. Nimura“Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage,” Vincent Carretta“A Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames,” by Kai Bird“The Bully Pulpit,” Doris Kearns Goodwin “Bolivar: Aerican Liberator” by Marie Arana“The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government,” by David Talbot“Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty,”by Jerry Oppenheimer“Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty” by Daniel Schulman“King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero,” David Remnick“Catharine the Great: Portrait of a Woman,” Robert K. Massie

Marie Arana appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival on Sep. 21, 2013. Speaker Biography: The daughter of a Peruvian father and an American mother, Marie Arana was born in Lima, Peru, and when she was 9, she moved to New Jersey. Arana is a former editor of The Washington Post's Book World and is now a writer-at-large for that newspaper. Her work is bicultural, reflecting her life as both a U.S. and Peruvian citizen. Arana's memoir, "American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood," was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001. Her novels "Cellophane" and "Lima Nights" were published to critical acclaim. Arana has recently turned to biography with "Bolivar: American Liberator," which The Washington Post described as "magisterial in scope, written with flair and an almost cinematic sense of history happening." For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6141

Marie Arana is the author of both non-fiction and fiction books. This event commemorates Hispanic Heritage Month. Sep. 19, 2013. Speaker Biography: Marie Arana is the former editor in chief of "Book World" at The Washington Post and a senior consultant to the Librarian of Congress. For transcript, captions and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6165

Author and journalist Marie Arana discusses the adventurous and volatile life of Simon Bolivar, who famously liberated much of Latin America from Spain. Speaker Biography: Marie Arana is an author, editor, journalist, and member of the Scholars Council at the Library of Congress. She was born in Peru, the daughter of Jorge Arana, a Peruvian born civil engineer, and Marie Campbell Arana, she moved with her family to the United States at the age of 9, achieved her B.A. in Russian at Northwestern University, her M.A. in linguistics at Hong Kong University, a certificate of scholarship at Yale University in China, and began her career in book publishing, where she was vice president and senior editor at Harcourt Brace and Simon & Schuster. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6010

Francisco Macias from the Library of Congress speaks with Marie Arana, who will appear at the 2013 National Book Festival on September 21, 2013, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The Library of Congress hosted the first International Summit of the Book and began what library leaders envision as an annual global meeting of minds to discuss and promote the book as a crucial format for conveying societies' scholarship and culture. The afternoon of Day Two included remarks and presentations by Marie Arana, Nan Talese, Geoffrey Kloske, Karen Lotz, Niko Pfund, Michael Suarez, Karen Keninger, Thomas Mallon and Fenella G. France. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5668.

MARIE ARANA, “The Contemporary Memoir: Is Your Life Your Own?”