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Charleston Literary Festival

In conversation with Charleston Literary Festival Board member Anne Blessing, Rebecca discusses the moral complications in her new novel.

Many Festival events are filmed and recorded for archival and research purposes, and occasionally for further distribution, such as promotional opportunities, on our website, and for network television. The films might sometimes include recognizable shots of members of the audience and/or interviews with patrons before or after the live events. Purchase of this ticket implies your permission to be filmed.

on November 4 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Rebecca Makkai shares her literary insights and passions with Veronica Sullivan at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia

Dalam bukunya yang dinanti-nantikan, I Have Some Questions for You, penulis ternama Rebecca Makkai memukau kita semua dengan kisah yang gelap berlapis-lapis, mengangkat pembunuhan, rasisme, pelecehan seksual, kedukaan, hakikat dari ingatan kolektif, dan privilege. Rebecca Makkai membagaikan wawasan sastrawi dan kecintaannya dengan Veronica Sullivan.

on October 20 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , ,

The Mississippi Book Festival

Saturday, August 19, 2023 from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Mississippi State Capitol Building & grounds 

400 High St, Jackson, MS 39201

Free & open to the public

 

Each August, the Mississippi Book Festival unites readers and authors in an exhilarating celebration of books.



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Library Of Congress National Book Festival

2023 National Book Festival

Join us in the nation’s capital at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday, August 12, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (doors open at 8:30 a.m.). If you can’t join us in Washington, D.C. for a day of free talks and activities, several programs will be livestreamed, and video of all talks can be viewed online after the Festival concludes.

Festival Information

The 23rd annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, August 12, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (doors open at 8:30 a.m.). The event is free and open to the public. A selection of programs will be livestreamed online and videos of all programs will be available shortly after the Festival. Attendees may expect enhanced safety and security measures when entering the Convention Center.

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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.



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Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival

Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival is delighted to return to Chilmark this summer
on August 4-6, 2023
Join us on the grounds of the Chilmark Community Center
with a
line up of some of the country’s leading authors.
Free and fantastic!

on August 4 2023· Tagged: , , , , ,

Northshire Manchester: Rebecca Makkai – I Have Some Questions For You – with Megan Mayhew Bergman

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.

on July 29 2023· Tagged: , , , , , ,

Phoenix Books: An Evening With Rebecca Makkai in Conversation with Maria Hummel

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.

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Switchyard Tulsa: “Researching Into the Voice: The Great Believers and Approaching History As An Outsider”

Switchyard Festival Tulsa, OK

May 30th, 5pm @ Promenade Ballroom

Included in the Ideas Track & Full Festival Pass

Rebecca Makkai, “Researching into the Voice: The Great Believers and Approaching History as an Outsider” 

Sponsored by TU’s Department of English and Creative Writing

6 days of music, literature and ideas

Switchyard is a national festival of art and intellect featuring 40 keynote speakers and local and national performance artists – based in the heart of Downtown Tulsa.

Switchyard will invite people to cross the tracks that once divided this city to explore our complicated histories, seek new points of connection and activate the transformative power of art. In this inaugural year, we’ll focus on attempts to ban, censor or suppress challenging ideas—new and old. This will mean digging into the past, imagining alternative identities and dreaming of rich new futures.



on May 30 2023· Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Lake Forest Book Store Presents: Luncheon with Rebecca Makkai

LUNCHEON WITH LOCAL AUTHOR REBECCA MAKKAI AT THE GALLERY

Join the staff of Lake Forest Book Store for lunch with local author Rebecca Makkai to celebrate her newest novel.

I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU
Viking Press  $28.00  Released February 21, 2023
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
at The Gallery
202 East Wisconsin Avenue
Lake Forest, IL 60045
$75 includes lunch and hardcover book

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.

Event date:
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 – 11:30am to 1:30pm
Event address:
Lake Forest Book Store
662 N. Western Ave.
Lake Forest, IL 60045

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