I'm thrilled to be presenting at the Chicago Humanities Festival and to accept the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for fiction. Legendary local journalist Rick Kogan will be in conversation with me. The event venue is on the campus of Northwestern University. Tickets available to members in late September, and to the public on October 1st.

I'll be in the Hague for the Crossing Border Festival, and then afterward in Brussels. More details to come!

Details to come!

I'll be in conversation with André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name) about his new novel, Find Me. The event is presented by Unabridged Bookstore, but will be offsite at the Nettlehorst School Auditorium. Tickets through the link below!

I'm thrilled to be a finalist for the 2019 Vermont Book Award. (Vermont has been my quarter-of-the-year home since 1999.) The awards gala will take place on November 9th on the college of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, in Montpelier. More info to come!

I'll be in one of my favorite cities to present at the Charleston to Charleston Festival. I'll be in conversation with Bill Goldstein, editor of The New York Times books website, book critic for the weekend edition of WNBC’s Today in New York and author of The World Broke in Two.

I'll be presenting, via the Rocky River Public Library, at the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church. Book sales and signing to follow, with a portion of book sales benefiting the Friends of the Rocky River Public Library.

Details to come.

Details to come.

The Purdue Creative Writing Program, in conjunction with the Medical Humanities Symposium, welcomes author Rebecca Makkai for a reading an Q&A on Tuesday, March 3rd. The Q&A will be held at 4:30 pm in BRWN 1154, and the reading will be at 7:30pm in Fowler Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.