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Virtual Book Launch: THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE by Julia Fine In Conversation With Rebecca Makkai
Women & Children First 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, ILJoin us on Women & Children First's Crowdcast Channel for the virtual launch celebration for The Upstairs House by Julia Fine! For this event, Fine will be in conversation with Rebecca Makkai. REGISTER HERE Ravaged and sore from giving birth to her first child, Megan is mostly raising her newborn alone while her husband travels […]
Gorton’s Masterclass Series: Rebecca Makkai – A Local Writing Life
This event is virtual “A Local Writing Life”: Local author Rebecca Makkai has achieved national prominence, most recently with her novel The Great Believers — a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal. Makkai was born and raised in Lake Bluff, and has lived her adult life […]
Unabridged Bookstore Presents: Zak Salih’s Virtual Tour for “LET’S GET BACK TO THE PARTY” in conversation with Rebecca Makkai
Unabridged Bookstore 3251 N. Broadway, Chicago, ILIt is 2015, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down. A high school art history teacher, newly single and desperately lonely, he envies his queer students their freedom to live openly the youth he lost to fear and shame. When he runs into his childhood […]
Magic City Books Presents: Virtual Event – Kevin Brockmeier In Conversation with Rebecca Makkai
Magic City Books 221 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United StatesMagic City Books is proud to welcome Kevin Brockmeier for a virtual author event in celebration of his new collection of stories, The Ghost Variations. The author of the acclaimed novel The Brief History of the Dead now gives us one hundred funny, poignant, scary, and thought-provoking ghost stories that explore all aspects of the afterlife. […]
