816. Rebecca Makkai

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca Makkai is the author of the novel I Have Some Questions for You, available from Viking Books. 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 ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and it was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times. 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. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, how's it?
0:02.0	Hello, everyone.
0:07.0	How's it going?
0:08.0	Welcome to The Other People Podcast.
0:10.0	I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles.
0:14.0	I hope you're doing okay.
0:15.0	Thanks for tuning in.
0:17.0	I have a great episode for you today.
0:19.0	My guest is Rebecca Mackay, author of a new novel called
0:24.3	I Have Some Questions for You. I started there. I started writing with Bodie showing up at this hotel
0:30.9	with this case already being very famous and her name already being known in association with it.
0:37.1	And I, you know, I got like 20 pages in and then went,
0:41.3	how on earth am I going to get all this backstory in?
0:43.9	There's so much I have to get in here.
0:46.6	What am I going to do?
0:48.4	So that was a wall.
0:49.3	And then kind of going, okay, what if I started, you know, a few years back?
0:54.6	And really at her moment of awakening to the fact that something had gone wrong in the quote-unquote solution of this case.
1:02.8	Okay, that was Rebecca Mackay, author of the novel, I Have Some Questions for You.
1:09.2	It publishes this week on Viking Press, one of the most anticipated
1:12.6	books of the year. I have some questions for you is about, believe it or not, a podcaster.
1:23.6	The main character is a podcaster, a woman named Bodie Kane.
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