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Northshire Manchester is delighted to welcome you back to this in person event at their Manchester, VT store!
Rebecca Makkai, will join Northshire Manchester to discuss her riveting bestselling new novel, a Northshire Staff Pick several times over and “part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age” – San Francisco Chronicle. She will talk about the book with fellow novelist Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of How Strange a Season.
Phoenix Books is thrilled to present an evening with Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award Finalist Rebecca Makkai, who will discuss her recently-released, riveting new novel I Have Some Questions for You. Rebecca will be joined in conversation by novelist and poet Maria Hummel at Phoenix Books in downtown Burlington.
DATE: Wednesday July 12th, 7:00pm
LOCATION: Phoenix Books Burlington, 191 Bank Street, downtown Burlington
TICKETS: $3. Your ticket comes with a coupon for $3 off any of the author’s books. Coupons expire at closing the evening of the event. Tickets can be purchased at the registration link below, or at the door.
BOOKS: Signed copies of I Have Some Questions for You will be available at the event. Can’t make it to the event but still want to purchase a signed, personalized copy? Click HERE. Copies will be available after the event on July 12th. If you ordered a book for store pick up, we will contact you as soon as it’s ready. If you ordered a book with shipping, please allow an additional 7-10 days for delivery.
Toronto Reference Library
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon
Rebecca Makkai, author of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, joins the Toronto Public Library to discuss her highly anticipated new novel, I Have Some Questions for You. In conversation with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, writer and host of CBC Radio’s Commotion.
Question and answer session and book signing to follow. Books available for purchase.
About this event’s guests:
Rebecca Makkai
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Read more:
I Have Some Questions for You
The Great Believers
Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
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This event is part of TPL’s signature Salon Series, where we host local and international authors, artists and thinkers in conversation about their new books and big ideas.
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Note: This is an in-person event at The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon, the premiere event space for Toronto Public Library’s cultural and heritage programming located on the second floor of the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge Street).
Arrive early, meet people. The talk starts at 7 pm, but doors open at 6 pm. Come early so you can chat with your fellow literature lovers, and make new friends. As with all Appel Salon events, we’ll have a cash bar with a selection of beer and wine, as well as sandwiches and snacks.
Reminder! TPL oversells these events to make sure that most people have an opportunity to attend. Tickets are only guaranteed until 15 minutes before the show starts, at which point we will start opening up available spots to the rush line.
This event will not be live streamed but the replay will be made available to watch on TPL’s YouTube channel.
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Accessibility at Toronto Public Library
We are committed to making our content accessible to as many Torontonians as possible. Please call or email us if you are Deaf or have a disability and would like to request accommodation to participate in this program. Please let us know as far in advance as possible and we will do our best to meet your request. At least three weeks’ notice is preferred. Phone 416-393-7099 or email accessibleservices@tpl.ca
Join the staff of Lake Forest Book Store for lunch with local author Rebecca Makkai to celebrate her newest novel.
Additional copies available for purchase and signing
Space is limited, be sure to RSVP at 847-234-4420
“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 flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? s 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.”
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.
Award-winning author Rebecca Makkai discusses her new book which was named a “most anticipated book of 2023” by more than 30 outlets.
Award-winning author Rebecca Makkai’s new book is a transfixing mystery. Set in the woods of New Hampshire, the novel follows a film professor and podcaster forced to reckon with her past and reexamine the murder of her high school classmate. A page-turner and a profound and deeply felt novel that interrogates our cultural obsession with true crime and violence against women.
Makkai’s last novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Books will be for sale and the event will conclude with a book signing.
Join us at the Library.
In Conversation with Judge Derek Mosley; ticketed; books sold by Boswell
The Friends of Milwaukee Public Library’s annual Spring Literary Luncheon is an event we all look forward to every year. Gathering with so many like-minded individuals who love all things literary is a special annual treat each spring. The luncheon is sponsored by the Friends of the Milwaukee Public Library, the Wisconsin Club, and Boswell Book Company and will include a book signing and raffle. Over the years, the Spring Literary Luncheon has attracted sell-out crowds and award-winning authors including Elisabeth Strout, David Maraniss, Madeline Miller, Mary Higgins Clark, Ruth Reichl, Sue Monk Kidd, Sara Gruen, and Louise Erdrich, among many others.
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.
Chicago, IL 60637
11:30 – 12:45 PM–Literary Discussion
FEATURED INTERVIEW WITH REBECCA MAKKAI
Award-winning author Rebecca Makkai plumbs the depths of memory and trauma in I Have Some Questions for You, her highly anticipated new novel, which Jennifer Egan calls “a true literary mystery—haunting and hard to put down.” C. Morgan Babst, author of The Floating World, will join Makkai in a conversation about the ability of fiction to explore complex cultural issues, while keeping us at the edges of our seats.
Hotel Monteleone, Lobby Level, Royal Salon. $10 or Literary Discussion Pass or VIP Pass.
