But the other side of it was that I was seeking out people. I was going into the library and looking at back issues of gay weeklies from the '80s. "Part of my research was primary sources because there weren't books out there.
And this is the third biggest city in America." Even looking at some of the big, noteworthy, nonfiction books about AIDS, Chicago's not even in the index. But as I started my research, I was kind of horrified by how little there was out there about the AIDS crisis in Chicago in specific. "I'm from Chicago, and before I even knew the direction the book was really going to take, I wanted to write a Chicago novel. On the imperative of a story about Chicago Videos of the ACT UP Chicago AIDS Protests
Makkai ( joins Here & Now's Robin Young to talk about the book. Rebecca Makkai's new novel " The Great Believers" looks at how AIDS not only ravaged the gay community in Chicago in the 1980s and '90s, but continued to impact lives decades later. (John Swart/AP) This article is more than 4 years old. Members of ACT-UP, a group of AIDS activists, erect a tent across the street from Cook County Hospital, Apin Chicago, Ill.
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