Rebecca Makkai on the Most Underutilized Tool in Fiction: Setting
“Your setting is so alive, it’s almost a character!”
February 24, 2023
By Rebecca Makkai
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Rebecca Makkai
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. Her new novel I Have Some Questions For You is out now.
Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai Talk Literary Ethics, the Loneliness of Bodies, and Writerly Friendship
“Writing is spooky. You’re colonizing another’s brain for as long as it takes for them to read your work.”
September 8, 2021
By Rebecca Makkai
How to Write Across Difference
Rebecca Makkai on Writing About the 1980s AIDS Crisis in Chicago
June 19, 2018
By Rebecca Makkai
