Qian Julie Wang (NYT's bestselling author of Beautiful Country) Joe Hagan (author of Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone)ĭiksha Basu (author of Destination Wedding) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Visit Rebecca Makkai's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagramīuy Rebecca's novel I Have Some Questions for YouĮmail Gabe Hudson: Gabe on Twitter and Instagram

Rebecca talks about her impossibly glamorous grandmother who wrote 30 novels in Hungary. But also the ways in which ADHD can be a creative superpower. Rebecca and Gabe talk about having ADHD, and the challenges of having a brain that's like Times Square. Rebecca's last novel The Great Believers, a novel set in Chicago at the height of the American AIDS epidemic, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Rebecca Makkai is the author of 3 novels and her newest novel, I Have Some Questions for You, will be published in February. She is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University. A new novel, NINETY-FIVE, will be released by Viking in 2022 or early 2023. 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. Visit her at or on Rebecca Makkai's latest 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, and the LA Times Book Prize and it was one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 2018. Rebecca Makkai's latest 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, and the LA Times Book Prize and it was one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 2018.

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