Latest Past Events
Speakeasy Workshop: Chutes and Ladders: Four Pitfalls (and Solutions!) for Writing Prose
Tuesdays, December 1st, 8th, 15th, & 22nd, 5-6:30pm PT / 8-9:30pm ET Join me for a digital workshop this December with Speakeasy! Most obstacles to writing are not psychological (writers’ block is a myth!) but structural. In narrative fiction, it's plot -- cause and effect, development, change, suspense -- that propels us forward. And yet […]
Cocktails & Conversation: Kimberly King Parsons, Megha Majumdar & Julia Phillips with Rebecca Makkai
Exile in Bookville 410 S. Michigan Avenue (2nd Floor), ChicagoWhat better time to host and celebrate four extremely talented National Book Award for fiction long and short listers? We believe two days after the winners of the 2020 National Book Awards winners have been announced, that’s when. Please join us on November 20th at 7pm central as Exile in Bookville welcomes Kimberly King Parsons (Black […]
Ragdale Talks: A Conversation with Rebecca Makkai ft. Chloe Benjamin, Michael Zapata and Alex Kotlowitz
Novel Affair at Ragdale Foundation was of course a no-go this year, and so we're doing this instead: On Wednesday, the 21st, I'll be in conversation online with three brilliant authors -- Michael Zapata, Chloe Benjamin, and Alex Kotlowitz -- about writing in a time of crisis. WAY cheaper than the actual Novel Affair, you […]
