6-Month Campaign
This book publicity case study outlines Coriolis Company’s work for Ericka Verba’s Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra from The University of North Carolina Press on January 14, 2025. Drawing on decades of research, Verba paints a vivid and nuanced picture of Violeta Parra’s life. From her modest beginnings in southern Chile to her untimely death, Parra was an exceptionally complex and talented woman who exposed social injustice in Latin America to the world through her powerful and poignant songwriting.
Events
January 25, 2025, Book Launch and Musical Tribute to Violeta Parra, Church in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, CA
February 4, 2025, Book Launch – Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
May 23, 2025, Thanks to Life: A Violeta Parra Book Launch & Sing-Along with Ericka Verba, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
August 26, 2025, Brains Uncorked, The Nickel Mine, Los Angeles, CA
Interviews
December 12, 2024, “Rising Stars: Meet Ericka Verba,” VoyageLA Magazine
January 14, 2025, “The Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forums | Thanks to Life Book,” BronxNet
January 15, 2025, “New Biography Details The Life Of Chilean Musician, Rebel, And Cultural Icon Violetta Parra,” Girl Talk HQ
January 20, 2025, “Ericka Verba on Music, Activism, and Preserving Latin American History,” Cafe con Pam
January 22, 2025, “On Writing The Biography of Chilean Artist Violeta Parra,” Women Writers, Women’s Books
January 29, 2025, “What The Global Folk Music Movement Can Teach Us Now,” Radio Cachimbona
February 6, 2025, “Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra,” The Academic Life on New Books Network
February 10, 2025, On-air interview, Public Radio of Buenos Aires
February 12, 2025, “Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra, the Chilean folksinger. Talking with Ericka Verba,” The San Francisco Experience
February 13, 2025, “Ep. 273 – Ericka Verba,” The Rob Burgess Show
February 20, 2025, “New Book by Professor Ericka Verba Chronicles the Life of Chilean Artist Violeta Parra,” The Daily Refresh
February 20, 2025, On-air interview,” CNY Latino
February 26, 2025, “Chile’s Mother of Protest Songs and Folk Power.,” Can Art Save Us?
February 28, 2025, “Q&A with Ericka Verba,” Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
March 20, 2025, “Season 6: The Ericka Verba Show,” Journey of an Aesthete Podcast
March 31, 2025, “Resilience Through Music: Exploring Violeta Parra’s Story with Ericka Verba,” Living On The B Side
April 4, 2025, “Exploring the Legacy of Violeta Parra with Ericka Verba,” The Relatable Voice Podcast
April 10, 2025, “Violeta Parra influenced artists and resisted a dictator. A new book tells her story.,” Los Angeles Daily News
− Book 101 Review, recorded on December 16, 2024
− When Words Fail, Music Speaks, recorded on January 6, 2025
− The Curious Professor, recorded on January 13, 2025
− Curiosity Invited, recorded on January 16, 2025
− IDEAA-nomics, recorded on January 27, 2025
− Art Slice, recorded on February 28, 2025
− Explaining History, recorded on May 5, 2025
− In the Mix with Leah B, recorded on May 9, 2025
Reviews and Features
January 2, 2025, “News of Note,” The Eastsider LA
January 10, 2025, “Review of Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra, by Ericka Verba (2025),” Not Even Past
February 3, 2025, “January 2025 Reads For The Rest Of Us,” Ms. Magazine
February 12, 2025, “Spotlight: Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra by Ericka Kim Verba,” What Is That Book About
March 5, 2025, “New Music: Something Old, Something New, Something Found… and Jazz,” NPR Alt.Latino
May 7, 2025, “Thanks to Life – Violeta Parra Biography Traces Life of Chilean Artist,” California Latino News
May 9, 2025, “Review: Thanks to Life and the radical unfinishedness of Violeta Parra,” CALÓ NEWS
− Latin American Literature Today
Book Publicity Assets
Coriolis also provided 464 visual book marketing assets for use on Ericka’s website and social media. These consisted of 384 graphics and 80 video assets.
*This post was last updated on September 18, 2025.
