Rebecca Makkai, Author of "The Great Believers"

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🗓️ 1 July 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Pushcart Prize winner, Rebecca Makkai, talks about her latest novel, THE GREAT BELIEVERS, the story of a man facing the 1980s Chicago AIDS crisis as well as the story of a mother searching for her lost daughter in 2015 Paris. This beautiful, interwoven tale paints such a vivid picture of an intimate relationship, a time and place, and a mother's love. Rebecca shares what gives her "writer goosebumps," her use of dramatic irony (remember that term from school?!), and what she wished other women wouldn't ask her at book readings. She also gives specific advice to aspiring fiction writers.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens from Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, the podcast for
0:14.9	busy people who don't have as much time as they would like to read. I have conversations
0:19.5	with writers of all types to help you
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0:36.1	Rebecca McKay is the author of three novels, The Borrowers, the Hundred Year House, I'm sorry,
0:41.7	The Barrower, The Hundred Year House, and her most recent book, The Great Believers, which
0:45.2	just came out on June 19th. She also wrote a collection of short stories called Music for
0:50.2	War Time, a graduate of Washington and Lee with an M.A. in English from Middlebury.
0:55.0	Rebecca was a Montessori elementary school teacher before publishing her first book. She has since
0:59.6	taught at Northwestern, the MFA program at Sierra Nevada, and at multiple workshops and writers' conferences.
1:05.0	She currently lives in Chicago and Vermont with her husband and two daughters. Does that sound
1:08.8	right?
1:10.4	Yeah, that's it.
1:11.3	Okay.
1:12.5	So welcome, Rebecca.
1:15.6	Thank you.
1:17.0	So you've written these three novels and a short story collection that won the 2017 push card prize
1:22.8	and have basically gotten the best reviews ever, from the New Yorker to owe the Oprah magazine,
1:28.0	and even the People magazine I just picked up to read on my flight from LA last week your books are just
1:32.5	incredibly incredibly praised and lauded by critics so I was just wondering what's your secret
1:38.2	and how does this how does this make you feel um well I don't I don't really have a secret, so I'm not sure how to answer that, but no, it feels
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