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Rebecca Makkai
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Blog posts for Ploughshares
I haven't posted anything here in a very long time, but for the interested: I've done about twenty blog posts over the past year for the literary magazine Ploughshares, on topics ranging from Roald Dahl to literary drinking games to things that tick writers off.
The lot of them are here:
http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/aut... Read more of this blog post »
The lot of them are here:
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The Great Believers
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2018
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I Have Some Questions for You
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2023
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The Borrower
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2011
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41 editions
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The Hundred-Year House
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2014
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17 editions
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Music for Wartime
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2015
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10 editions
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Between the Covers: A Bookstore Erotica Anthology
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The Masters Review Volume VII
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2018
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The George Spelvin Players
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幸運之子
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The Borrower (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice) by Makkai, Rebecca (2011) Hardcover
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Rebecca’s Recent Updates
"Is there a word for writing a review purely because other reviews made you mad? This is that. There should be a special circle of readerly hell reserved for those reviewers who don't know the difference between "this isn't what I needed/expected righ"
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"I read this novel when it was first published in 2018 and I was gobsmacked by how spectacular every moment was -- and by the rich panorama Rebecca Makkah created of Chicago in the 1980s and Paris in 2015.
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“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
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“But when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory—letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“If we could just be on earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple. And it’s not. But listen: You two are on the planet at the same time. You’re in the same place now. That’s a miracle. I just want to say that.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
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