Rebecca Chace is the author of five books: Talking to the Wolf; Leaving Rock Harbor; Capture the Flag; Chautauqua Summer; and 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.
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Enjoy this slice of Talking to the Wolf, which is about 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