Rebecca Makkai Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Rebecca Makkai

It is so good. It’s about this woman’s relationship with her housekeeper… It’s like this tense psychological drama that ends in this horrible tragedy. It’s really, really good.

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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!

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Rebecca Makkai

It’s not that unknown, but everyone’s out here loving Jennifer Egan and somehow not reading “The Keep,” her best and weirdest novel. She gets away with things no one has any right to get away with; that’s my favorite kind of book.

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Here's what you're doing a week from tonight! The Geek-Out is a book club where you sit back and listen to 2 brilliant writers talk abt a classic text from a craft perspective--this time, DuMaurier's gothic masterpiece REBECCA. Both in person and online! https://www.storystudiochicago.org/the-geek-out-book-club/ https://t.co/8T9PlwApJn

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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

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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

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Now we are in the aquarium room, which you can tell because of the seashell sconce and the sea turtle ceiling mural and also the two giant fish that definitely want you dead https://t.co/QcIWGJZ6Xm

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RIP Martin Amis--for a time (age 19-21?), my favorite author. Then I went quite cold on him, for a number of reasons. (I was probably harsher on him for once having adored him.) But Time's Arrow influenced my work profoundly, as did the ethos of play that suffused his other work.

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Join @storystudio’s 2023 Instructor of the Year @shereelgreer for her six-session online Reckoning with Remembrance: On Memoir and Memory class. It kicks off May 9. https://t.co/FsPY8AVDHs https://t.co/V7v85kNRbF

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The amazing @wcfbook is doing a March Sadness bracket (!) and it's The Great Believers versus Parable of the Sower in the final showdown. I would be honored to lose to Octavia Butler. https://t.co/Q2SMEzPPvr

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