Rebecca Makkai's new novel " The Great Believers" looks at how AIDS not only ravaged the gay community in Chicago in the 1980s and '90s, but continued to impact lives decades later.
(John Swart/AP) This article is more than 4 years old. Visit megaphone.Members of ACT-UP, a group of AIDS activists, erect a tent across the street from Cook County Hospital, Apin Chicago, Ill. He taught at Princeton University, and currently teaches at Columbia University. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney’s for 10+ years. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine. His honors include being named one of Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. Tod Goldberg (NYT's bestselling author of Gangster Nation) Qian Julie Wang (NYT's bestselling author of Beautiful Country)
Joe Hagan (author of Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone)ĭiksha Basu (author of Destination Wedding) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Visit Rebecca Makkai's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagramīuy Rebecca's novel I Have Some Questions for YouĮmail Gabe Hudson: Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Rebecca talks about her impossibly glamorous grandmother who wrote 30 novels in Hungary. But also the ways in which ADHD can be a creative superpower. Rebecca and Gabe talk about having ADHD, and the challenges of having a brain that's like Times Square. Rebecca's last novel The Great Believers, a novel set in Chicago at the height of the American AIDS epidemic, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Rebecca Makkai is the author of 3 novels and her newest novel, I Have Some Questions for You, will be published in February.
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