Rebecca Makkai, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews award-winning author, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and repeat MDHTTRB guest Rebecca Makkai about I Have Some Questions For You, an enthralling and unputdownable literary murder mystery (and the April pick for Zibby's Book Club!!) about a successful podcaster who returns to her idyllic New Hampshire boarding school to teach a class and winds up reliving her youth and her senior year roommate’s murder. Rebecca reveals the inspiration behind the book (hint: she currently lives in the same boarding school she attended as a teenager) and describes her unique mode of storytelling and unforgettable cast of characters. She also speaks openly about her own sexual assault and explains how that traumatic childhood experience led to themes of predation, misogyny, and incarceration in her book.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop
0:40.3	at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Rebecca McKay is the author of I have some questions for you,
1:06.5	a novel. And by the way, I picked this book for Zibby's Book Club, so go online to Zibby's
1:12.7	Book Club on book clubs or on my website, and you can sign up to be a member and to have a
1:20.0	great event with Rebecca herself coming in person on Zoom. Rebecca McKay's last novel,
1:24.6	The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
1:29.0	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 10 best best best books of 2018 by the New York Times.
1:40.0	Her other books are the novels The Borrower and the Hundred Year House and the collection Music for Wartime, four stories of which appeared in the best American short stories.
1:49.1	A 22 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada,
1:54.4	Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is artistic director of Story Studio,
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