Wednesday, Nov. 2nd 6:30pm - 8:30pm
NBCC Secrets of Memoirs Panel

If the memoir craze is over, why is everybody still so obsessed with them? Join this lively, candid, free discussion spilling the inside scoop on the fate and state of writing, reviewing and publishing memoirs. Learn whether you need to write your entire book or just a proposal to get a book deal, how to make money during the process of finishing and the trick to get an agent quickly, saving six months time and avoiding rejection.

Expert agent, editor & author panelists include: Tin House editor Rob Spillman; Lindsay Harrison, author of Missing; Her Scribner's editor Colin Harrison; Sheila McClear, author of The Last of the Live Nude Girls; WME Literary agent Rebecca Oliver; Literary agent Ryan Harbage; Publishers Weekly editor Mark Rotella, author of Amore; moderator, NBCC member, and Lighting Up memoirist Susan Shapiro.

Thursday, Nov. 3rd 11am - 12:00pm
Reading for Kids with Elisha DeMaria

Elisha DeMaria will be reading from Eric Carle’s wonderful books.

Monday, Nov. 7th 6:30pm - 8:00pm
John Tauranac
Author of New York from the Air: A Story of Architeture

John Tauranac is Adjunct Associate Professor at NYU’s SCPS.Completely updated with new photographs and text, New York from the Air is a lush, romantic, and ultimately hopeful tribute to one of the most thrilling cities in history. New York historian and cartographer John Tauranac’s lively commentaries lead readers on a truly spectacular tour from above the city that never sleeps.  

Tuesday, Nov. 8th 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Poetry Reading with Four Way Press Poets Rigoberto Gonzalez, Pricilla Becker and Kathleen Ossip

Rigoberto Gonzalez is the author of eight books, including his latest poetry book Black Blossoms and a memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which won the American Books Award. The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and several international artist residencies, he is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University at Newark.

Priscilla Becker is the author of Stories That Listen (2011); her first book of poems, Internal West(2003), won The Paris Review book prize. She has published poems, essays, and book & music reviews in numerous publications. She teaches poetry at NYU, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.

Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Cold War(2011); The Search Engine, which won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize; and Cinephrastics, a chapbook of movie poems. She teaches at The New School, where she was a co-founder of LIT, and she's the poetry editor of Women's Studies Quarterly.

Wednesday, Nov. 9th 6:30pm - 8:00pm
SCPS Writing Workshop with Ramin Ganeshram
On "Incorporating Food into Whatever You Write"

The Department of Humanities, Arts, and Writing at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) invites all new and experiences writers to another series of free creative writing classes at the NYU Bookstore. Master teachers from the Writing Program at SCPS lecture on a range of writing skills, followed by writing exercises and time for discussion.

Ramin Ganeshram is the author of Stir It Up: A Novel. Ganeshram is also a food writer, cookbook author and professional chef trained at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. She has written for the New York Times region sections and Newsday as a food columnist and feature writer.

Thursday, Nov. 10th 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Eamonn Gearon
Author of The Sahara: A Cultural History

Eamonn Gearon is an author, Arabist and analyst. An English-born Irishman, Gearon's career has been the development of understanding and insight between the Greater Middle East and the West.  The Sahara: A Cultural History covers the history of the Great Desert, from prehistoric origins to today’s political dramas

Tuesday, Nov. 15th 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Evelyne Trouillot

Évelyne Trouillot is an award-winning author from Haiti who has written essays, poetry, novels and a play, as well  as short stories and fairy tales for children; some of her pieces were published in English in the anthology Words Without Borders.  Born in Port-au-Prince, she lived more than ten years in the United States (New York and Florida) before returning definitively to Haiti in 1987. In addition to being a university professor and writer, Ms. Trouillot participates actively in Haitian cultural activities and organizes writing workshops for children and young adults.
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Wednesday, Nov. 16th 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Brooklyn Rail Panel

Phong Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, co-founder, and publisher of the monthly journal The Brooklyn Rail and the publishing press The Brooklyn Rail/ Black Square Editions.

Anselm Berrigan is the Poetry Editor for The Brooklyn Rail and co-editor of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan  as well as the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan.  Berrigan’s newest book, Notes from Irrelevance, was just published by Wave Books.

Donald Breckenridge is the Fiction Editor of The Brooklyn Rail, editor of The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology and co-editor of the Intranslation web site.  His new novel This Young Girl Passing is out now from Autonomedia.

Thursday, Nov. 17th 12pm - 2:00pm
All Things Apple @ NYU

Introducing the "lunch and learn" sessions with NYU and Apple! Come learn all about the latest and greatest apps for Apple products and how you can incorporate them into your classroom and teaching experience. Ask our Apple Reps any technical questions and get answers on the spot. Bring your lunch, relax and learn!

Thursday, Nov. 17th 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Inside/Outside @ NYU Bookstore with young adult authors Matt de la Pena and Dream Jordan
Inside/Outside is a series of readings sponsored by the McGee School at SCPS NYU

Matt de la Pena is author of Ball Don't Lie, Mexican White Boy, We Were Here, and I Will Save You (2011). Twice Recipient of ALA-YALSA Best Books for Young Adult Prize, Matt teaches creative writing at NYU SCPS. Dream Jordan was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Hot Girl is her first novel.

Saturday, Nov. 19th 11:30am - 12:30pm
Story Time for Kids with Deb Lucke, author of Sneezenesia

Deb Lucke is a writer and illustrator of children's books with an interest in bad behavior and horribly embarrassing incidents.

Tuesday, Nov. 29th 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Ann Hood
Author of The Red Thread

Ann Hood is the author of nine novels, most recently, The Red Thread.  She has also written a memoir, a book on the craft of writing, and a collection of short stories. Ann has won a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. She teaches at NYU’s Creative Writing Program.

Wednesday, Nov. 30th 6:30pm - 8:00pm
NYU Faculty Poetry Reading with Deborah Landau, Rachel Zucker, and David Austell

Deborah Landau is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and The Last Usable Hour, a Lannan Literary Selection published by Copper Canyon Press. She co-hosts the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com and is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Rachel Zucker is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Museum of Accidents, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In addition to teaching at NYU and the 92nd Street Y she is a certified labor doula and is studying to become a childbirth educator.

David Austell is the Director of the Office for International Students and Scholars at New York University where he also has an appointment as Associate Professor of International Education in the NYU Steinhardt School. He has just published his first book of poetry Little Creek & Other Poems.