Rebecca Makkai Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Rebecca Makkai

Awright awright, here are the next four books for #AroundTheWorldIn84Books! First is My Heart by Semizden Mehmedinovic, translated from the Bosnian by Ceila Hawkesworth and picked for me by @aleksandarhemon. I'm LOVING it so far; I'll be discussing on Thursday night. 🧵 https://t.co/ItEFybnvNp

Rebecca Makkai

The Great Believers has won the Premi Llibreter prize for its Catalan translation. I was BLOWN AWAY this fall to see firsthand the richness of Catalan literary culture -- the number of bookstores, of books translated into Catalan, etc. etc. Huge thanks to @Ed_Periscopi et al!

Rebecca Makkai

Turtle Wexler from my favorite childhood book, Ellen Raskin’s “The Westing Game,” is an absolutely perfect character — in her brilliance, her spite, her willingness to keep secrets in the end.

Rebecca Makkai

This is our second one! Lan Samantha Chang, BRILLIANT author of The Family Chao and director of the @IowaWritersWksp, with the amazing @finejuli in convo, hosted by @BookvillExiles in the @FineArtsBldg on Mich. Ave. in Chicago. I'll be there too!

Rebecca Makkai

My problem is I keep having ideas for George Saunders stories.

Rebecca Makkai

Gorgeous queer bookmail! Debut essays from @lezzdoothis, novel #2 from my brilliant former Iowa student De’Shawn Charles Winslow, and OMG the new Edmund White. 😍🏳️‍🌈😍🏳️‍🌈😍🏳️‍🌈 https://t.co/SwZxCkFCGF

Rebecca Makkai

Had the most amazing time last night with these gorgeous ladies (@jodipicoult⁩ and ⁦@JennyBoylan⁩) talking about their new co-written novel, MAD HONEY. It’s a feat of joint imagination, and a delight. 🍯 https://t.co/FDIsmLXznb

Rebecca Makkai

I made up a fake podcast for my new novel, and called it Hollywoodland. I checked that there was no such podcast. Now I'm in copyedits, and meanwhile someone has started a podcast by that name. Please help me think of a new name? It's a podcast about women in golden-age Hollywood

Rebecca Makkai

@minimal_franco @benloory The Women of Brewster Place (Gloria Naylor); The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)

Rebecca Makkai

Someone Like Us is meticulously constructed and its genius doesn't falter even slightly under scrutiny. . . . it's the book that ought to cement Mengestu's reputation as a major literary force.