“If you opened me up, you’d find Ohio,” writes Maggie Smith. Writers from all coasts wrestle with the question of how to write place, but it’s especially charged in the Midwest, where our forests and lakes, our asphalt and industry are so often called fly-over country. How can stories dig deeper into the truth of this place and its people? Whether we’ve been here our whole lives, left and returned, or never want to go back, the Midwest lives in…

Part cocktail party, part game-show-style fun, this event will be a chance for you to mingle with fellow writers and experience the Battle of the Genres. The below authors will compete for the title of the Ultimate Craft Champion, while you cheer them on with drinks, cheers, and good-natured heckling.With Melissa Febos, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Ruth Joffre. 

In Other People's Trades, Primo Levi describes his "vagabond and dilettantish curiosity" about jobs other than his own. This panel features writers who have thought deeply about what their characters do for work—at times fulfilling, at times dangerous, occasionally invented, and usually calling for arcane knowledge, skills, and habits of mind. From sponge diver to film professor, physicist to umbrologist, our characters' professions afford us uncanny access into their inner and outer worlds. With Tim Horvath, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Joy…

Women & Children First and StoryStudioChicago are thrilled to present Rebecca Makkai in conversation with Greta Johnsen to celebrate the paperback release of I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU! 

We’re thrilled to welcome Rebecca Makkai to West Bloomfield to present the New York Times Bestseller I Have Some Questions for You - named a Best Book of 2023 by People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more - soon out in paperback! Tickets are required for this event and space is limited! With Emily Tobin.

Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival is thrilled to announce its first event of 2024 with Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Rebecca Makkai. She will be talking about her New York Times bestseller and addictive page turner I Have Some Questions for You. Rebecca will be in conversation with award-winning and bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka. Rebecca will be signing books after the event. 

Carmichael's Bookstore in partnership with the Louisville Free Public Library is excited to be hosting Rebecca Makkai for her book I Have Some Questions for You. She will be joined in conversation by Katy Yocum.  

With Rachel Simons. This is a ticketed event celebrating the paperback release. One ticket per one person includes a signed paperback copy of I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU and entry to the event. Rebecca will sign books after the program.