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SUMMARY:Ragdale Ring 2020 Performance: Michael Zapata and The Herbsaint Band
DESCRIPTION:Join Ragdale Ring for a special evening of New Orleans flavor\, featuring author Michael Zapata in conversation with Rebecca Makkai\, and The Herbsaint Band. This event is outdoors\, with limited seating capacity to comply with Illinois COVID safety guidelines\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nSeating for this outdoor event is limited to comply with Illinois COVID safety guidelines. \nWe recommend that you bring: \n\nBlankets and chairs\nBug spray\nMasks\n\nRagdale will provide: \n\nPre-packaged\, unopened food and beverages (see ticket add-ons)\nParking in our main parking lot\nSocially distant seating\nContactless check-in\nDedicated hand-sanitizing stations\n\n  \nTo keep guests\, performers\, and staff healthy and safe: \n\nPlease wear a mask when you are on campus\nDo not attend the event if you are sick\nRefrain from using Ragdale’s restrooms\n\n\n\nMichael Zapata is the author of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau and founding editor of the award-winning MAKE Literary Magazine. He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Award for Fiction; the City of Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Program award; and a Pushcart Nomination. As an educator\, he taught literature and writing in high school dropout students. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa and has lived in New Orleans\, Italy\, and Ecuador. He currently lives in Chicago with his family. \nMichael will be in conversation with Ragdale alumna and Chicago-based author Rebecca Makkai\, writer of the story collection Music for Wartime and the novels The Hundred-Year House and The Borrower.
URL:https://rebeccamakkai.com/event/ragdale-ring-2020-performance-michael-zapata-and-the-herbsaint-band/
LOCATION:Ragdale Foundation\, 1230 North Green Bay Road\, Lake Forest\, IL\, 60045\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch Party:  THE TALENTED MISS FARWELL by Emily Gray Tedrowe (Presented by Women & Children First)
DESCRIPTION:Join Women & Children First for the virtual launch party for The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Gray Tedrowe. For this event\, Emily will be in conversation with Rebecca Makkai. This event will be streamed on Women & Children First’s Crowdcast channel. \n \nAt the end of the 1990s\, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse\, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie’s in New York City\, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL\, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar\, Reba\, as she’s known\, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some\, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding business acumen. To others\, she’s a heartless capitalist whose only interest in art is how much she can make. \nBut a thousand miles from the Big Apple\, in the small town of Pierson\, Illinois\, Miss Farwell is someone else entirely—a quiet single woman known as Becky who still lives in her family’s farmhouse\, wears sensible shoes\, and works tirelessly as the town’s treasurer and controller. \nNo one understands the ins and outs of Pierson’s accounts better than Becky; she’s the last one in the office every night\, crunching the numbers. Somehow\, her neighbors marvel\, she always finds a way to get the struggling town just a little more money. What Pierson doesn’t see—and can never discover—is that much of that money is shifted into a separate account that she controls\, “borrowed” funds used to finance her art habit. Though she quietly repays Pierson when she can\, the business of art is cutthroat and unpredictable. \nBut as Reba Farwell’s deals get bigger and bigger\, Becky Farwell’s debt to Pierson spirals out of control. How long can the talented Miss Farwell continue to pull off her double life? \nRebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers\, The Hundred-Year House\, and The Borrower\, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize\, among other honors. Makkai is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University\, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. \nEmily Gray Tedrowe is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Talented Miss Farwell\, Blue Stars\, and Commuters. She earned a PhD in English literature from New York University\, and a BA from Princeton University. She has received an Illinois Arts Council award as well as fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Sewanee Writers Conference. A frequent book reviewer for USA Today as well as other publications\, Tedrowe also writes essays\, interviews\, and short stories. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 29\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nCROWDCAST
URL:https://rebeccamakkai.com/event/virtual-book-launch-party-the-talented-miss-farwell-by-emily-gray-tedrowe-presented-by-women-children-first/
LOCATION:Women & Children First\, 5233 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, IL
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