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Author Q&A: How Rebecca Makkai Blends Fiction and True Crime in Her Latest Novel ‘I Have Some Questions For You’

How reliable is our memory? When we examine the past now, what do we see? Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai tackles these questions in her latest novel, I Have Some Questions For You — available February 21, 2023, published by Viking Penguin. At its core, the story is about revisiting the past to distinguish truth over […]

by Better Staff
February 21, 2023

Author Q&A: How Rebecca Makkai Blends Fiction and True Crime in Her Latest Novel ‘I Have Some Questions For You’

How reliable is our memory? When we examine the past now, what do we see? Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai tackles these questions in her latest novel, I Have Some Questions For You — available February 21, 2023, published by Viking Penguin. At its core, the story is about revisiting the past to distinguish truth over […]

by Better Staff
February 21, 2023
Local Author Talks New True Crime Book, 'The Leopold and Loeb Files'

Local Author Pens New Book About 'One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes’

We talked to author Nina Barrett, owner of Evanston’s beloved Bookends & Beginnings, about her fascinating new book, “The Leopold and Loeb Files.” True crime junkies, this one’s for you. Make It Better: The Leopold and Loeb case (the gruesome murder of a 14-year-old boy by two wealthy University of Chicago students in 1924) is […]

by Danielle McLimore
July 30, 2018
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