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Ellen Stone Belic Presents: In Her Infinite Wisdom Joyce Carol Oates: The (Other) You In Conversation With Rebecca Makkai
Part of the 2021 Chicago Humanities Festival In her latest short story collection The (Other) You Joyce Carol Oates ponders who her characters might have become if they’d chosen different paths. Through the imaginations of her contemplative protagonists, Oates—author of contemporary classic novels like We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde—deftly detangles the complex circumstances that […]
Unabridged Books Presents: “The Talented Miss Farwell” Virtual Event with Emily Gray Tedrowe & Rebecca Makkai
Unabridged Bookstore 3251 N. Broadway, Chicago, ILCelebrate the paperback release of The Talented Miss Farwell with author Emily Gray Tedrowe on Wednesday, September 1st at 7:30 pm CDT! The author will be joined for a conversation by Rebecca Makkai! About the book: Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this "stylish" (New York Times Book Review) page-turner of greed and obsession, survival and self-invention that […]
Authors on Tap: Lily King and Rebecca Makkai
Exile in Bookville 410 S. Michigan Avenue (2nd Floor), Chicago, IL, United StatesLooking for the perfect gift idea for that avid and discerning reader on your holiday shopping list? Well call off the dogs, because we have you covered. Exile in Bookville has the honor of hosting Lily King on Monday, December 6th at 7:00pm central to help celebrate her debut short story collection, Five Tuesdays in Winter. This very […]
A Virtual Evening with Rebecca Makkai: I Have Some Questions For You
OnlineJoin New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Makkai for a live stream conversation on her new novel, I Have Some Questions For You. Audience Q&A to follow. This event is presented by Books & Books, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Prairie Lights Books, and Print: A Bookstore. To purchase a signed copy of Rebecca's book, please visit […]
The Muse & The Marketplace:”Why Do We Do This?” Keynote Panel
"Why Do We Do This? Finding the Writerly Purposes that Make Publishing Worth It" Muse Keynote Panel 7am PT/9am CT/10am ET (Virtual) In the face of all the difficulties authors encounter as we attempt to navigate the world of publishing, why do we continue to labor for years over our stories and the business […]
WORDPLAY CLASS: First Page, Last Polish (part of The Loft’s Wordplay festival)
OnlineYour opening is the first thing an agent or editor will read—and you don’t want it to be the last. But you’ve seen your own first page so often that its strengths, flaws, gaps, and even typos are invisible to you now. So often, all we can think to do to polish it up is […]
Six Bridges Book Festival: Rebecca Makkai & Curtis Sittenfeld
Zoom info in ticket linkSix Bridges Book Festival: Rebecca Makkai & Curtis Sittenfeld New York Times bestseller I Have Some Questions for You is Rebecca Makkai’s most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a trans?xing mystery at its heart. In Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy, Sally Milz […]
