Zell Visiting Writers Series: Rebecca Makkai

Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 5:30pm

Photo of Rebecca Makkai

Literati is pleased to return as the official bookseller of the Zell Visiting Writers Series at the University of Michigan.

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel, I Have Some Questions for You, is a New York Times Best Seller. Her 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 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 University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. 

Event address: 
525 S. State St.
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Books: 
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I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel By Rebecca Makkai Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593490143
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Viking - February 21st, 2023

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The Great Believers: A Novel By Rebecca Makkai Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780735223530
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Books - June 4th, 2019