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 February 6 2024· Tagged: author talk, authors on tap, conversation, exile in bookville, free, in person, Marie Helene Bertino, Rebecca Makkai

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 August 10 2023· Tagged: baltimore, bird in hand, Book Club, conversation, discussion, eventbrite, free, Free Event, in person, marion winik, marionwinik, maryland, the ivy, the ivy bookshop, the weekly reader, WYPR

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.

on April 11 2023· Tagged: conversation, emily gray tedrowe, In Person Event, Seminary Co-op

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 April 4 2023· Tagged: Book Club, Book Tour, conversation, discussion, I Have Some Questions For You, IHSQFY, Livestream, q&a, reading, virtual event, Zibby's Book Club, Zibby's Book Shop, ZibbyMag

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

• Borrow: NYPL Catalog
• E-Book app: SimplyE, soon available on iOS and Android

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

on March 28 2023· Tagged: Alison Stewart, book signing, Book Tour, conversation, discussion, I Have Some Questions For You, IHSQFY, in person, Livestream, New York Public Library, NPYL, q&a, reading, signing, WNYC

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 25 2023· Tagged: conversation, Festival, Jung Yun, Panel, virginia festival of books

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

on March 23 2023· Tagged: book signing, Book Tour, conversation, discussion, Ethical Society of St. Louis, I Have Some Questions For You, IHSQFY, in person, Left Bank Books, Livestream, q&a, reading, Shane Mullen, signing

Wisconsin Book Festival & A Room Of One’s Own Presents: Rebecca Makkai

on March 22 2023· Tagged: A Place Of One's Own, book signing, Book Tour, conversation, discussion, I Have Some Questions For You, IHSQFY, in person, Livestream, Madison Central Library, q&a, reading, signing, Wisconsin Book Festival

The Book Stall Presents: Rebecca Makkai

on March 21 2023· Tagged: book signing, Book Tour, conversation, discussion, I Have Some Questions For You, IHSQFY, in person, Livestream, q&a, reading, signing, The Book Stall, winnetka

Tattered Cover Presents: Rebecca Makkai In Conversation with Alexander Lumans

Tattered Cover is honored to host Rebecca Makkai at our Colfax location on March 14th at 6pm. She will be on tour for her new book I Have Some Questions For You. This is a ticketed event. Each ticket comes with a copy of her new book! You can purchase tickets below.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by TIME, NPR, The Seattle Times, Good Housekeeping, Today.com, Southern Living, and CrimeReads

The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie.

But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent ?aws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and 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.

In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her 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. 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.

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.

on March 14 2023· Tagged: Alexander Lumans, book signing, Book Tour, conversation, denver, discussion, I Have Some Questions For You, IHSQFY, in person, Livestream, q&a, reading, signing, Tattered Cover