Cocktail Party with Rebecca Makkai

Join award-winning author and StoryStudio Artistic Director Rebecca Makkai for a private cocktail party! You can bring up to three guests and Rebecca can bring a writer friend depending on your interests and preferences. We can discuss books, writing, life, or whatever you want! The event will take place on a mutually convenient date, at a mutually convenient restaurant, bar, or other venue. Don't miss this opportunity for a one-of-a-kind literary cocktail party! Author Bio Rebecca Makkai is the author of this year’s New York Times bestselling I Have Some Questions For You as well as the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, and the short story collection Music for Wartime. The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize among other honors. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca teaches graduate fiction writing at Northwestern University, UNR Tahoe, and Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English; and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. She lives in Chicago and Vermont.