Rebecca Makkai

Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee
2015-08-20 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Boswell Book Company, 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI
At 7 pm, I’ll be reading (from Music for Wartime) along with Aleksander Hemon, author of The Making of Zombie Wars.
But also, at 6, the store’s book club will meet to discuss The Hundred-Year House, and I’ll join that group at 6:30. Contact the store for more details!

The Marrow
2015-08-16 17:30 - 18:30 | The Whistler, 2421 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL
“THE MARROW is a monthly story-telling show that presents first-person narrative essays that get to the heart of the matter. The Marrow is every third Sunday of the month, and currently takes place at The Whistler in Logan Square.”

Black Point Estate, Lake Geneva
2015-08-14 16:30 - 19:30 | Black Point Estate, 812 Wrigley Drive , Lake Geneva, WI
This event must be reached by boat (she typed gleefully…)

Women and Children First
2015-08-13 19:30 - 20:30 | Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL
This will be my big Chicago event for Music for Wartime — wine, food, giveaways, etc. Even though it’s one of my last events, I’m considering it my “launch party”…

Highland Park Public Library
2015-08-12 10:30 - 11:30 | Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel Ave., Highland Park, IL
This is part of their Humanities Series (details to come).

Anderson's Bookshop
2015-08-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, 123 W Jefferson Ave., Naperville, IL, 60540
At long last, I’ll be home for the Chicago launch of Music for Wartime!

Phoenix Books with Megan Mayhew Bergman
2015-07-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Phoenix Books Burlington, 191 Bank St., Burlington, VT, 05401
I’ll be reading at the Burlington branch of Phoenix Books along with Megan Mayhew Bergman, whose amazing collection Almost Famous Women will just be out in paperback.

New England Review Reading in Middlebury, VT
2015-07-22 19:00 - 20:00 | Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe, 24 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, 05753
As part of New England Review‘s reading series, I’ll be at Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe in Middlebury, VT along with poets Michael Coffey and Penelope Cray. Books will be for sale… More details on the Facebook event page.

Class for Young Writers, Howe Library
2015-07-21 10:30 - 12:30 | Howe Library, 13 South Street, Hanover, NH, 03755
I’ll be teaching a class for high school writers at the Howe Library in Hanover, New Hampshire. Please contact the library for details!

Politics and Prose with Lisa Gornick
2015-07-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.
I’ll be reading at the legendary Politics and Prose alongside Lisa Gornick, author of A Private Sorcery.

Powell's on Hawthorne
2015-07-09 19:30 - 20:30 | Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, 97214
I’m thrilled to be reading at Powell’s… Please note that this is the Hawthorne location, on the east side of town.

Elliott Bay Book Company
2015-07-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Avenue , Seattle, WA, 98122

Class on Endings at Hugo House
2015-07-08 13:00 - 16:00 | Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue , Seattle, WA, 98122
I’ll be teaching my craft class “Ending it All” at Hugo House in Seattle, before my reading at the Elliott Bay Book Company that evening. See more, or register for the class, here.

Mrs. Dalloway's, with Ann Packer
2015-07-07 19:30 - 20:00 | Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA
I’ll be reading from Music for Wartime and talking about the collection with acclaimed local author Ann Packer.

Warwick's with Andi Teran
2015-07-06 19:30 - 20:30 | Warwick’s, La Jolla, CA
I’ll be reading with Andi Teran, author of Ana of California, at Warwick’s in La Jolla.

Harvard Bookstore with Heidi Pitlor
2015-06-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Heidi Pitlor is an author (The Daylight Marriage, 2015) as well as the editor of The Best American Short Stories, the anthology in which four of Music for Wartime‘s stories appeared. We’ll be in conversation at Harvard Bookstore about my collection, and both of us will sign books.

Celebrity Bookclub, Newtonville Books
2015-06-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road , Newton Centre, Newton, MA, 02459
I’ll be hosting Newtonville Books’ Celebrity Bookclub on June 24th; we’ll discuss Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, one of my all-time favorites. You can purchase the book ahead of time at Newtonville at a 10% discount. More information about the event here… And if you’re unfamiliar with Jackson’s classic:
“First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.”

Center for Fiction with Dylan Landis and Paulette Livers
2015-06-23 07:00 - 17:00 | Center for Fiction, 17 E. 47th St., NYC , NY
Please join us in NYC on Music for Wartime‘s publication day! I’ll be in conversation with Dylan Landis and Paulette Livers about our novels, all newly out in paperback, and I’ll be signing copies of both The Hundred-Year House and the new collection. More info here!

Printer's Row Lit Fest
2015-06-07 14:00 - 14:45 | Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St., Chicago, IL
I’ll be in conversation with Vendela Vida and Printer’s Row editor Jennifer Day as part of the Printer’s Row Lit Fest. The event is at 2 pm on Sunday in the Multipurpose Room of the Harold Washington Library Center. We will both be signing books afterward. This is a ticketed event; click here to get tickets. (As of posting, the ticket page is password-protected, but should be opened soon.)

Pleiades Reading
2015-06-06 19:00 - 20:00 | The Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL
I’ll be reading with Christine Sneed and Christina Clancey to celebrate the launch of Pleiades Magazine‘s latest issue!

Watermark Books
2015-06-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Watermark Books, 4701 E Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS

Left Bank Books
2015-06-03 20:00 - 21:00 | Left Bank Books, 399 North Euclid, St. Louis, MO

Boulder Books
2015-06-02 19:30 - 20:30 | Boulder Books, 1107 Pearl St, Boulder, CO

Book Expo America
2015-05-28 03:30 - 16:30 | Javits Center, 655 W 34th St, New York, NY
I’ll be signing copies of the newly released paperback of The Hundred-Year House at the Penguin Paperbacks area of BEA from 3:30 to 4:30.

The Hideout, Chicago
2015-05-01 13:30 - 14:30
I’ll be at The Hideout for The Interview Show May 1. More details TK.

Library, Austin TX
2015-04-23 19:00 - 2015-04-25 19:00
I’ll be at the Austin Public Library for their New Fiction Confab in late April. Check out the schedule of events here!

At Curbside Yuletide Book Thing, 12/17
2014-12-17 12:30 - 14:00
Curbside Splendor is having a party at Beauty Bar in Chicago to celebrate their own releases and some other local authors. I’m psyched to be part of a lineup that includes Gina Frangello, Kathleen Rooney, Halle Butler, Ryan Kenealy, Dmitry Samarov, Ben Tanzer, James Tadd Adcox, and Jac Jemc. Come get your nails did and drink some stuff and hear some literature. 6:30 pm, Wednesday, December 17th. Details here.

With Jac Jemc at Open Books, 12/6
2014-12-06 11:30 - 13:00
Jac Jemc has written an extraordinary story collection, A Different Bed Every Time, and I’m thrilled to be in conversation with her at Open Books in Chicago on December 6th. We’ll kick things off at 5:30 pm. More info here.

At Chicago Book Expo, 12/6
2014-12-06 05:30 - 06:30
I’ll be at Chicago Book Expo on Saturday, December 6th, appearing with Kathleen Rooney and Ian Morris on a panel about books set in the Chicago area. Our appearance will be at 11:30 am in the Film Row Cinema on the 8th Floor of 1104 S. Wabash. December 6th has always been my “weird luck” day, so you can come expecting something strange to happen. More info on Book Expo here.

At Read Between the Lynes in Woodstock, IL 12/4
2014-12-04 12:30 - 13:30
I’ll be at Read Between the Lynes in Woodstock, Illinois at 6:30 on Thursday, December 4th. The event is part of Woodstock’s Girls’ Night Out evening, but boys will not be shunned. More details here; and this is the town where they filmed Groundhog Day, so you could also just watch that while reading my book aloud to yourself.
