Rebecca Makkai on ADHD as a creative superpower
Rebecca Makkai is the author of 3 novels and her newest novel, I Have Some Questions for You, will be published in February. 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 and Gabe talk about having ADHD, and the challenges of having a brain that's like Times Square. But also the ways in which ADHD can be a creative superpower. Rebecca talks about her impossibly glamorous grandmother who wrote 30 novels in Hungary. Rebecca also talks about why, as a literary citizen, it's important to not just make more room at the table, but rather to make the table itself bigger.
Produced by Lit Hub
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Buy Rebecca's novel I Have Some Questions for You
Watch Rebecca on PBS Books
Read about Rebecca in New York Times
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