The in-person CRS Opening Reception on October 5 at Columbia College Chicago will feature guest speaker Rebecca Makkai, whose novel The Great Believers tells the story of the AIDS epidemic in Chicago.
The Great Believers was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.
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 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize; and it was one of The New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2018. 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.
Rebecca Makkai - (c) Brett Simison
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I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU is both a page-turner that will have readers racing to the end, and a profound, deeply felt novel that interrogates our cultural obsession with true crime and violence against women—Thalia being “young enough and white enough and pretty enough and rich enough that people paid attention.” A brilliant work from one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, it is Makkai’s finest achievement yet.