In-Store: Rebecca Chace: Talking to the Wolf w/ René Steinke

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• Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
• A signing will follow the talk.
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Talking to the Wolf is a poignant and haunting exploration of female friendship that unearths the past and the ghosts we carry into the present.

Four women. Thirty-five years. A lyrical and unsettling look at female friendship across time.

A failed rockstar, an awarded scientist, a work-obsessed misanthrope, and a ghost, whose untimely death ruptured the once-solid quartet, steel themselves for their thirty-fifth high school reunion dinner. Set during a surprise snowstorm in New York City the day of the reunion, Talking to the Wolf is a lyrical exploration of female friendship, friend breakups, and reconciliations across decades.

Like a Meg Wolitzer novel shot by filmmaker Nicole Holofcener and blessed by Virginia Woolf, Talking to the Wolf pole-vaults over the Bechdel Test.

Rebecca Chace is the author of five books: Talking to the Wolf (novel); Leaving Rock Harbor (novel); Capture the Flag (novel); Chautauqua Summer (memoir); June Sparrow and the Million Dollar Penny (for children). Her third play, “Obit,” will premier September, 2026, at Theater for the New City (NYC). A regular contributor to The New York Times, her essays appear in The Yale Review, New England Review, LA Review of Books, and other publications. Fellowships include Civitella Ranieri, MacDowell, Yaddo, Dora Maar House, American Academy of Rome (Visiting Artist), and many others. She is a Faculty Associate at Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking. Substack: ”Hey Friend, You Broke My Heart” @rebeccachace ; Insta:rebeccachace1

René Steinke’s novel, (Riverhead), was named one of National Public Radio’s "Great Reads.” Friendswood was shortlisted for the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and it was an Amazon Book of the Month. Her previous novel, , an imaginative retelling of the life of the artist and provocateur, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was a Finalist for the National Book Award. Her first novel is The Fires. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, O Magazine, Arkansas International, The Literary Review, 5Columns, Bookforum, and in anthologies. She co-authors the Substack, Fresh Chapel. She is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Adelphi University, where she directs the MFA program. She lives in Brooklyn.

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