May 31 2019
Rebecca Makkai and Christopher Castellani in Conversation

Rebecca Makkai and Christopher Castellani in Conversation

Presented by Twenty Summers at The Hawthorne Barn

Authors Rebecca Makkai and Christopher Castellani will discuss their latest novels, both capturing pivotal historical moments in gay history. Makkai’s The Great Believers, listed by the New York Times as one of the Best 10 Books of 2018, is about friendship and redemption in 1980s Chicago, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, and in contemporary Paris. Castellani’s Leading Men, a historical novel inspired by the romance between Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo, is set in 1950s Italy and modern-day New York and Provincetown. Dwight Garner of the New York Times declared it a “blazing” success, “an alert, serious, sweeping novel. To hold it in your hands is like holding . . . a front-row opera ticket.”

Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novel The Great Believers, named by the New York Times as one of the Best 10 Books of the Year for 2018. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the ALA Carnegie Medal, winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award, and a pick for the New York Public Library’s 2018 Best Books. The author of three previous works of fiction and the recipient of a 2014 NEA Fellowship, Makkai teaches at Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University. She is also artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago.

Christopher Castellani is the author of Leading Men, as well as  three previous novels (the trilogy A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love) and The Art of Perspective, a book of essays on the craft of fiction. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is the artistic director of Grub Street, Boston’s acclaimed writing center, and a faculty member in the MFA Program at Warren Wilson.

Admission Info

$25

Dates & Times

2019/05/31 - 2019/05/31

Location Info

The Hawthorne Barn

29 Miller Hill Road, Provincetown, MA 02657

Parking Info

The Barn is located at 29 Miller Hill Rd in Provincetown, and is accessed by a long dirt path and a steep staircase. There is no parking available on Miller Hill Rd, nor is anyone allowed to drive down Miller Hill Rd. Parking is available in town at the large MacMillan Pier Parking Lot, and at 401 Commercial St at the corner of Law St. Our volunteers will be located at the corner of Miller Hill Rd. and Bradford St. and will be happy to provide you with directions for parking. Those who have trouble walking, can be dropped off at Miller Hill Rd. and/or call Ptown Pedicab 508.487.0660 or Cape Cab 508.487.2222 from the lot and they will deliver you to Miller Hill Rd. When exiting the Barn and Miller Hill Rd. after the program is over please be careful of our residential neighbors and keep voices low.