Award-winning author Rebecca Makkai joins Julie in this episode to talk about her latest book, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU. Rebecca shares about her new title, reverse engineering her characters, first and last lines, and her preoccupation with and exploration of the palimpsest of memory. As the artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago and MFA faculty member at multiple university programs, Rebecca also discusses how teaching contributes to her own writing. 

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