Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference: The Origins of The Original
The Northwestern University Summer Writers’ Conference is back! This year, the conference is entirely online again so you can join us from anywhere in the world. Details are forthcoming. In the meantime, please save the dates! The conference is hosted by the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies MA in Writing and MFA in Prose and Poetry programs. July […]
StoryStudio Chicago: StoryBoard Presents: Rebecca Makkai in Conversation with Terese Marie Mailhot, Ingrid Rojas-Contreras, Megan Stielstra, Pablo Cartaya, and Dan Chaon
Zoom info in ticket linkStoryBoard Kick Off! Mark you calendars for August 12 at 7 pm CT. StoryStudio Chicago Artistic Director Rebecca Makkai will be in conversation with five of the StoryBoard faculty members in webinar fashion on Zoom, a conversation that will be free and open to the public!
Exile in Bookville Presents: Authors on Tap: Anca L. Szilágyi and Rebecca Makkai
Exile in Bookville 410 S. Michigan Avenue (2nd Floor), Chicago, IL, United StatesJoin us IN PERSON on Thursday, September 29 at 7 pm central to help celebrate the launch of Anca L. Szilágyi's second novel, Dreams Under Glass. Anca will be in conversation with Exile MVP Rebecca Makkai! About Dreams Under Glass: An art school grad turned paralegal faces a shocking and surreal death at her law firm against a backdrop of the 2008 […]
Electric Lit Presents: The Craft of Covid in Fiction
The dynamic, unpredictable nature of the pandemic has forced novelists to become pundits, predicting what the world will look like when their novels are published. They also face unique craft challenges: how do masks affect dialogue, character descriptions, and scene? How do social distancing and quarantine warp relationship dynamics? Rebecca Makkai chose to move the […]
The Center for Fiction Presents: Rebecca Makkai on I Have Some Questions for You
Center for Fiction 17 E. 47th St., NYC , NYThe Ticket/Voucher option includes a $10 Bookstore voucher, redeemable toward the featured event book on the night of the event. All registrants will receive a link to livestream the event. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Rebecca Makkai (The Great Believers) joins The Center for Fiction for the launch of I Have Some Questions […]
Literary at The Lounge With Rebecca Makkai
The Music Hall Lounge 131 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH, United StatesEvening’s Moderator: Lara Prescott, bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept In the riveting new novel from the author of The Great Believers (a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist), a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New Hampshire boarding school. A successful film […]
Live with Brookline Booksmith! Rebecca Makkai
Coolidge Corner Theatre 290 N Harvard St, Brookline, MA, United StatesLive and in person with Brookline Booksmith, at Coolidge Corner Theatre! Celebrate the release of I Have Some Questions for You with author Rebecca Makkai. Register for the event! This event is ticketed. You may choose an entrance-only ticket, or entrance plus a copy of I Have Some Questions for You. Ticketholders will receive email […]
WBEZ + Exile in Bookville Presents: Rebecca Makkai In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter
The Apollo Theatre 2550 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, United StatesWBEZ is proud to partner with Exile in Bookville for the release of I Have Some Questions for You, by award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. She will be joined in conversation by Lindsay Hunter at the historic Apollo Theatre, located in the heart of Lincoln Park. In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca […]
A Virtual Evening with Rebecca Makkai: I Have Some Questions For You
OnlineJoin New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Makkai for a live stream conversation on her new novel, I Have Some Questions For You. Audience Q&A to follow. This event is presented by Books & Books, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Prairie Lights Books, and Print: A Bookstore. To purchase a signed copy of Rebecca's book, please visit […]
Dallas Museum Of Art Presents: Rebecca Makkai In conversation with Ben Fountain
Dallas Museum of Art 1717 N. Harwood St., Dallas, TX, United StatesLocation: Horchow Auditorium In conversation with Ben Fountain I Have Some Questions for You by acclaimed author Rebecca Makkai is both a transfixing mystery and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past. When successful film professor and podcaster Bodie Kane’s alma mater invites her back to campus to teach a two-week […]
