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Authors on Tap: Marie-Helene Bertino and Rebecca Makkai

In conversation celebrating Marie-Helene Bertino’s new novel Beautyland. In person event, registration is required.  

on December 1 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , ,

The Ivy & Bird in Hand Book Club: Rebecca Makkai in Conversation with Marion Winik

The Ivy Bookshop, Bird in Hand, and WYPR are proud to co-present a book club with Rebecca Makkai, author of I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU!

Join us for an evening at Bird in Hand Books & Coffee for a conversation with the beloved novelist, featuring happy hour snacks and drinks. Marion Winik of WYPR’s podcast “The Weekly Reader” will join Makkai in conversation, and then you will have the chance to participate in a Q&A with the author about her latest novel.



on June 2 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Seminary Co-Op In Conversation with Emily Gray Tedrowe

Rebecca Makkai will discuss her new novel I Have Some Questions for You. She will be joined in conversation by Emily Gray Tedrowe.

This event will be held at the Seminary Co-op. At this time, masks are required for in-store events. 

Register HERE

About the book: Set in the woods of New Hampshire, this transfixing new novel follows a film professor and podcaster forced to reckon with her past – and reexamine the murder of her high school classmate. Though podcaster Bodie Kane spends her days researching old Hollywood, and the disenfranchised women spat out by the studio system, she is content to forget her own past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the 1995 murder of a classmate, Thalia Keith. The circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are the subject of intense fascination online, yet Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie. But when Granby invites her back to teach a two-week course, Bodie finds herself inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case. I Have Some Questions for You is both a page-turner that will have readers racing to the end, and a profound, deeply felt novel that interrogates our cultural obsession with true crime and violence against women.

About the author: Rebecca Makkai’s last novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and it was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and the collection Music for Wartime—four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

About the interlocutor: Emily Gray Tedrowe is the author of three novels, most recently The Talented Miss Farwell. She also works as a bookseller in Chicago.

Event Location:
Seminary Co-op Bookstore

5751 S. Woodlawn Ave

Chicago, IL 60637

on March 10 2023· Tagged: , , ,

Reinvention and Return Breakfast and Authors Talk with Quan Barry, Rebecca Makkai, and Jung Yun

Acclaimed authors Quan Barry (When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East), Rebecca Makkai (I Have Some Questions for You), and Jung Yun (O Beautiful) gather to explore what happens when we return to our past—to the family, friends, and familiar places who formed us—and find ourselves changed.

Barry is a poet and playwright, author of the novel We Ride Upon Sticks, and the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Makkai is the author of National Book Awards long-listed novel and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Great Believers and The Borrower. Yun is the award-winning author of Shelter and associate professor of English at George Washington University.

Join them for a continental breakfast and conversation. Moderated by Audrey Parks of New Dominion Bookshop.

Tickets required.

on March 10 2023· Tagged: , , , ,

Friends of the Library & Park Road Books Presents: Rebecca Makkai

2023 FOL BOOK & AUTHOR CONVERSATIONS

Monday, March 6, 2023 at 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM

Presenting Sponsor: Southminster

Queens University Charlotte
Queens Hall
1900 Selwyn Ave
Charlotte, NC 28274

on January 27 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Virtual Event: Zibby’s Book Club with Rebecca Makkai

Visit zibbymag.com/zibbys-book-club to join!

30 minutes of group discussion followed by 30 minutes of Q&A on Zoom or in person with the author.

Our meeting hub is hosted by Bookclubs.com.

Sign up for links and Zoom info here.

Buy all the books here.

on January 22 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

NYPL & WNYC’s Get Lit March Book Club: Rebecca Makkai (In Person & Virtual)

Join WNYC’s Alison Stewart and Rebecca Makkai for a live conversation about the book I Have Some Questions for You.

 

The New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community.

 

The March title is I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.

 

Throughout the month, All of It host Alison Stewart and the Library will accompany readers, providing touchpoints on-air and on social media at @allofitwnyc and @nypl. Borrow the book (and more than 300,000 others) for free through the Library’s e-reader app SimplyE, available for iOS and Android devices.

 

Join Stewart, the author, and readers everywhere for a live conversation, in-person or online, on Tuesday, March 28 at 6 PM.

 

To join in-person | Please be sure to register for an In-Person Ticket. Doors will open 30 minutes before the program. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program.

 

To join the livestream | A livestream of this event will be available on the NYPL event page. To receive an email reminder shortly in advance of the event, please be sure to register!

 

COVID PROTOCOLS FOR IN-PERSON PROGRAMS

 

The New York Public Library no longer mandates proof of vaccination at large-scale public events.

 

Patrons are strongly encouraged to wear a mask at NYPL events.

 

If you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19 or suspect you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive, please stay home.

 

ACCESSIBILITY

 

In-Person | Assistive listening devices and/or hearing loops are available at the venue. You can request a free ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning service by emailing your request at least two weeks in advance of the event: email accessibility@nypl.org or use this Gmail template. This venue is fully accessible to wheelchairs.

 

Livestream | Captions and a transcript will be provided. You can request a free ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation by emailing your request at least two weeks in advance of the event: email accessibility@nypl.org or use this Gmail template.

 

GET THE BOOK

 

 

Don’t have a New York Public Library card? Get one here!

on January 17 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Left Bank Books Presents: Rebecca Makkai in Conversation with Shane Mullen

Left Bank Books presents Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award Finalist
Rebecca Makkai, who will discuss her highly anticipated, riveting new novel I Have Some Questions for You at the Ethical Society on March 23rd at 7pm!
Makkai will be in conversation with Left Bank Books’ Shane Mullen.
Please purchase a ticket to attend the event in person or virtually.
Books may be picked up ahead of the event at Left Bank Books or can be picked up at the venue on March 23rd.*
Order additional copies of I Have Some Questions for You from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores!
Makkai will personalize and sign additional copies for sale from Left Bank Books.
If you are unable to make it in person, leave a personalization note in your order.

 

on January 17 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Book Stall Presents: Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai: I Have Some Questions For You (An In-Store Event)

We are delighted to host award-winning author (and Book Stall favorite) Rebecca Makkai, discussing and signing copies of her brilliant new novel, I Have Some Questions For You. Set in the woods of New Hampshire, this transfixing new novel follows a film professor and podcaster forced to reckon with her past and reexamine the murder of her high school classmate. In Makkai’s own words, it’s “the literary feminist boarding school murder mystery you didn’t know you needed.” This program is free and open to the public. We ask that you buy your copies of I Have Some Questions for You from The Book Stall  if you plan on entering the book-signing queue.

 

on January 17 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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