Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy. Rebecca Makkai asthmabackgive Change image and share on social
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know. Rebecca Makkai adolescentdavidfabulous Change image and share on social
I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.' Rebecca Makkai authorbackborrower Change image and share on social
There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist. Rebecca Makkai artistcomponentgreat Change image and share on social
I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long. Rebecca Makkai assumebackcareer share on social
When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form. Rebecca Makkai appreciationartistauthor share on social