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Boston.com Book Club Discussion: “I Have Some Questions For You” with Rebecca Makkai
Join the virtual discussion with Becky Dayton of Vermont Book Shop and author Rebecca Makkai of "I Have Some Questions For You". Buy "I Have Some Questions For You" from Vermont Book Shop. Where: Zoom Webinar / Virtual Event
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 Porch: The Origins of the Original with Visiting Writer Rebecca Makkai
OnlineWhen we sit down to write, the first words, scenes, characters, conflicts, and settings we come up with are often the least original ones of which we’re capable. Digging past the obvious, the stock (and even the products of the collective unconscious), we might finally arrive at stories that are strikingly new and memorable. In […]
