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Books Are My People
98 - Books Are My People with Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions For You
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Books Recommended:
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
Letters To A Writer of Color edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro
Madonna In A Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
Other Books Recommended:
Black Candle Woman by Diane Marie Brown
A Likely Story by Leigh McMullan Abramson
Guest Author: Dog on Fire by Terese Svoboda
Terese’s recommendation: Pity the Beast by Robin McLean
No Knives in the Kitchen of this City by Khaled Khalifa
Notes on an execution by Danya Kukafka
Find Rebecca online:
On Twitter, Instagram, etc. @RebeccaMakkai
On Substack: Submakk
LA Times Book Prize List of Finalists
Check out my new Etsy store where I am sell homemade journals from up cycled papers and books.
Listeners in San Francisco, check out my friend's shop, Simple, where my handmade journals are sold.
Story Studio Chicago (Rebecca Makkai's organization)
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