Rebecca Makkai is a master storyteller – her 2018 book, The Great Believers, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. In I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca switches genres with a literary crime story that takes in the #MeToo movement, the American justice system, race, sex, class and murder, all against the backdrop of a prestigious boarding school. This week, Michael sits down with Rebecca to discuss her latest novel, the perils of true crime, and why being surprised when reading a book is so much more satisfying than a jump scare in a movie.

Reading list:

The Borrower, Rebecca Makkai, 2011

The Hundred-Year House, Rebecca Makkai, 2014

The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai, 2018

I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai, 2023

The Stone of Laughter, Hoda Barakat, 1990

So Late in the Day, Claire Keegan, 2023

The In-Between, Christos Tsiolkas, 2023

You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. Or if you want to listen to them as audiobooks, you can head to the Read This reading room on Apple Books.

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Guest: Rebecca Makkai

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