Join us for the Macmillan Publishers Virtual Author Events at #FYE2021!

Joint Publisher Event
Tuesday, February 16th • 5:30 p.m. EST

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Request review copies of these books for your committee here

Featuring:

Kerri Arsenault
author of
Mill Town
Reckoning with What Remains
St. Martin’s Press | About the Book

Eric Holthaus
author of
The Future of Earth 
A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming
HarperCollins

Kiese Laymon
author of
Heavy
An American Memoir
Simon & Schuster

Mark Bittman
author of
Animal, Vegetable, Junk
A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Tuesday Joint Publisher Event is sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 

Macmillan’s FYE 2021 Author Event
Wednesday, February 17th • 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. EST    

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Featuring:

Michael Eric Dyson
author of
Long Time Coming
Reckoning with Race in America
St. Martin’s Press | About the Book

Jonathan Mooney
author of
Normal Sucks
How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines
St. Martin’s Griffin | About the Book

Arshay Cooper
author of
A Most Beautiful Thing
The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team
Flatiron Books | About the Book

Anna Wiener
author of
Uncanny Valley
A Memoir
Picador USA | About the Book

Macmillan & HarperCollins FYE 2021 Author Event
Friday, February 19th • 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. EST    

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Featuring:

Kao Kalia Yang
author of
Somewhere in the Unknown World
A Collective Refugee Memoir
Metropolitan Books | About the Book

Wayétu Moore
author of
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
A Memoir
Graywolf Press | About the Book

Marcelo Hernandez  Castillo
author of
Children of the Land
A Memoir
HarperCollins

Jason Adam Katzenstein
author of
Everything is an Emergency
An OCD Story in Words & Pictures
HarperCollins

This event is sponsored by Macmillan Publishers and HarperCollins

Normal Sucks! How to Reach a Neurodiverse Student Audience
featuring Normal Sucks author Jonathan Mooney
Tuesday, February 16th • 1:45 – 2:45 p.m. EST

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© Chris Mueller

With remote learning during the pandemic, the issue of connecting with students is more important than ever. Especially with learners at different levels. Writer and speaker Jonathan Mooney uses his own story as a neurodiverse kid – he was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD and did not learn to read until he was twelve – to show how neurodiverse students are often shamed and told that they are “not normal.” In this session, he offers the message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed, and presents strategies for truly inclusive teaching.

 

Don’t miss Macmillan Learning’s events at FYE 2021! Learn more about their events and first-year resources here

 

Macmillan’s virtual FYE author events are only open to registered FYE 2021 conference attendees.  

Don’t miss B Janet Hibbs and Anthony Rostain at #ACPA20 in Nashville!

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Don’t miss authors B. Janet Hibbs and Anthony Rostain at ACPA20 in Nashville, TN!

Author Plenary Session
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Music City Center
Davidson Ballroom

Author panel with a book signing to follow
Attendees will receive complimentary copies of The Stressed Years of Their Lives*

B. Janet Hibbs, M.F.T., Ph.D. has held faculty positions for more than 15 years in graduate programs for psychologists and marital and family therapists. She is the co-author of The Stressed Years of Their Lives. Dr. Hibbs is also the author of Try to See It My Way: Being Fair in Love and Marriage.

Anthony Rostain M.D., M.A., is a nationally-recognized expert in child and adolescent psychiatry, and a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He is the co-author of The Stressed Years of Their Lives.

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* While supplies last

Meet Macmillan at #FYE2020 in Washington, D.C.!

Visit us in the Exhibit Hall in Booth 20!

FYE 2020 Exhibit Hall
Friday, February 21, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. 
Saturday, February 22, 7:30 a.m. – 11 a.m., 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday, February 23, 7:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Visit Macmillan’s booth (#20) to explore our diverse selection of books that are perfectly suited for First-Year Experience and Common Reading programs!

Saturday, February 22

Join us for Macmillan’s First-Year Experience Author Lunch!

12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Thurgood Marshall Ballroom West & South

Lunch and author panel, with a book signing to follow

Jonathan Safran Foer is that author of We Are the Weather. He is also the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Here I Am, and of the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Carol Anderson is the author of One Person, No Vote. She is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of many other books, including White Rage and One Person, No Vote. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Recipient of Oprah Winfrey’s first Chutzpah Award for boldness, Irshad Manji is the author of Don’t Label Me. She is the founder of Moral Courage College, which teaches people how to do the right thing in the face of fear. She is also the Director for Courage, Curiosity, and Character at Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting independence and resilience in kids. A prize-winning professor, Manji currently lectures with Oxford University’s Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights. She lives in New York.

Bill McKibben is the author of Falter. He is the founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to have warned of the dangers of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He is the author of fifteen books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Eaarth, and Deep Economy. He lives in Vermont.

Join us for Dinner with Warren Berger!

7:00 p.m.
Thurgood Marshall Ballroom West & South

Dinner and author panel, with a book signing to follow

Warren Berger an expert on design thinking and innovation, is the author of The Book of Beautiful Questions and A More Beautiful Question—both published by Bloomsbury. Berger also writes for Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and was a longtime contributing editor at Wired magazine. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC World News, many times on CNN, and as a frequently-used expert source on NPR’s All Things Considered. He lives in New York. 

PLUS—don’t miss our Twitter Sweepstakes!

Enter to win signed books from each of our authors who will be speaking at FYE 2020! To enter, simply:

• Follow @macmillanreads on Twitter
• Retweet our sweepstakes tweet (see below) with the following tags and hashtags: “#FYE2020 #sweepstakes @macmillanreads”
• For a bonus entry, follow us on Instagram (@macmillanreads)

Macmillan’s FYE 2020 Sweepstakes will be open from Friday, February 21 at 5:30 p.m. (EST), until Monday, February 24 at 11:59 p.m. (EST). Please see below for the complete rules.

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Join us for dinner with Warren Berger at #FYE20!

Saturday, February 22nd • 7 p.m.    
Thurgood Marshall Ballroom West & South
Dinner and author panel, with book signings to follow

This event is free! (RSVP is required—>click here!)

Featuring:

Warren Berger
author of
The Book of Beautiful Questions
The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead
Bloomsbury USA | About the Book

Charles Barber (with William Juneboy Outlaw III)
author of
Citizen Outlaw
One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper
HarperCollins Publishers 

Saeed Jones
author of
How We Fight for Our Lives
A Memoir
Simon & Schuster 

Shaun King
author of
Make Change
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 

You’re Invited to the Macmillan Author Lunch at #FYE20!

Saturday, February 22nd • 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.    
Thurgood Marshall Ballroom West & South
Lunch and author panel, with book signings to follow

This event is free! (RSVP is required—>click here!)

Featuring:

Jonathan Safran Foer
author of
We Are the Weather
Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | About the Book

Carol Anderson
author of
One Person, No Vote
How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy
Bloomsbury USA | About the Book

Irshad Manji
author of
Don’t Label Me
How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars
St. Martin’s Press | About the Book

Bill McKibben
author of
Falter
Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Henry Holt & Co. | About the Book

Meet Macmillan at #NODAC2019 in Houston!

Visit us in the Exhibit Hall at Booth 210!

NODAC Exhibit Hall
Sunday, October 20, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Monday, October 21, 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Visit Macmillan’s booth (#210) to explore our diverse selection of books that are perfectly suited for First-Year Experience and Common Reading programs!

Meet Aaron Bobrow-Strain at the Author Reception!

Monday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m.

Ballroom of Americas B-C, Second Floor

Author panel, with a book signing to follow at 8:00 p.m.

Aaron Bobrow-Strain is a professor of politics at Whitman College, where he teaches courses dealing with food, immigration, and the U.S.-Mexico border. He is the author of The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez. His writing has appeared in The Believer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, and Gastronomica. He is the author of White Bread and Intimate Enemies. In the 1990s, he worked on the U.S.-Mexico border as an activist and educator. He is a founding member of the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition in Washington State.

Join us for lunch with Jonathan Safran Foer!

Tuesday, October 22 at 12:00 p.m.

Ballroom of Americas B-C, Second Floor

Lunch and author panel, with a book signing to follow at 1:30 p.m.

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Here I Am, and of the nonfiction books We Are the Weather and Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

 

 

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Don’t miss Julie Lythcott-Haims and Dashka Slater at #ACPA19!

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Don’t miss Julie Lythcott-Haims and Dashka Slater at ACPA19!

Author Plenary Session
1:30 p.m.
John B. Hynes Convention Center
Auditorium

Author panel with a book signing to follow
All plenary attendees will receive complimentary copies of Real American and The 57 Bus

Julie Lythcott-Haims is the author of Real American  and  How to Raise an Adult. She served as dean of freshmen and undergraduate advising at Stanford University. She holds a B.A. from Stanford, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.F.A. in writing from California College of the Arts. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and resides in the Bay Area with her husband, their two children, and her mother. Lythcott-Haims’s memoir, Real American, evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African American father and a white British mother, she shows how microaggressions, in addition to blunt force insults, can puncture a person’s inner life. Real American also expresses, through Lythcott-Haims’s path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered “the other.” Lythcott-Haims’s previous book, How to Raise an Adult, emerged from her decade as Stanford University’s Dean of Freshmen, where she was known for her fierce advocacy for young adults and received the university’s Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for creating “the” atmosphere that defines the undergraduate experience. Toward the end of her tenure as dean, she began speaking and writing widely on the harm of helicopter parenting.

Dashka Slater is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, and Mother Jones. The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Slater is also author of many books, including The Antlered Ship, a Junior Library Guild selection, and Escargot, winner of the Wanda Gag Read Aloud Award. Slater’s most recent book, The 57 Bus, details the true story of Sasha Fleischman and Richard Thomas, two teenagers from different walks of life in Oakland, California, whose lives become tragically connected. Sasha was an agender teen from the middle-class foothills of Oakland who attended a small private high school; Richard lived in the economically challenged flatlands and attended a large public high school. After school each day, Sasha and Richard’s paths overlapped on the 57 bus for a mere eight minutes. But, one afternoon, their lives became indelibly intertwined when Sasha fell asleep and woke up to their skirt enveloped in flames, after Richard ignited it with a lighter. Sasha suffered severe burns, and Richard was charged with two hate crimes and faced life imprisonment. This case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight. But, in The 57 Bus, Slater shows that what might at first seem like a simple matter of right and wrong, justice and injustice, victim and criminal, is something far more complicated—and heartbreaking. Slater first chronicled this story in The New York Times Magazine. In The 57 Bus, she expertly expands upon her original article, providing a riveting exploration of race, class, gender, morality, and forgiveness. Slater’s honest insights gleaned from both teens’ lives will inspire you to rethink all you know about crime, punishment, and empathy. The 57 Bus was the winner of the 2018 Stonewall Award, a 2018 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and a Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist.

PLUS! Don’t miss our ACPA19 Twitter Sweepstakes!

Enter to win signed copies of some of our favorite common reading titles! To enter, simply:

• Follow @macmillanreads on Twitter
• Retweet our sweepstakes tweet with the following tags and hashtags: “@macmillanreads #ACPA19 #sweepstakes”
• For a bonus entry, follow us on Instagram (@macmillanreads)

Macmillan’s ACPA19 Sweepstakes will be open from Saturday, March 2 at 6:30 p.m. (EST), until Wednesday, March 6 at 11:59 p.m. (CT). Please see below for the complete rules.

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Meet Macmillan at #FYE19 in Las Vegas!

Visit us in the Exhibit Hall in Booth 28!

FYE Exhibit Hall
Saturday, February 16, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. 
Sunday, February 17, 7:30 a.m. – 11 a.m., 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Monday, February 18, 7 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Visit Macmillan’s booth (#28) to explore our diverse selection of books that are perfectly suited for First-Year Experience and Common Reading programs!

Sunday, February 17

Join us for Macmillan’s First-Year Experience Author Lunch!

12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Caesars Palace
Neopolitan Ballroom, Promenade Level

Lunch and author panel, with a book signing to follow

Anna Rosling Rönnlund is a co-author of  Factfulness. She is the daughter-in-law of Hans Rosling. Anna, along with her husband, Ola, and Hans, co-founded the Gapminder Foundation: a nonprofit that fights devastating misconceptions about global development, produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics,  promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand, and collaborates with universities, UN, public agencies and non-governmental organizations.

Anna Clark is a journalist living in Detroit. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, the Columbia Journalism Review, and other publications. Anna edited A Detroit Anthology, a Michigan Notable Book, and she has been a writer-in-residence in Detroit public schools as part of the InsideOut Literary Arts program. She has also been a Fulbright fellow in Nairobi, Kenya and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan. She is the author of  The Poisoned City.

Andrea Malkin Brenner is the co-author of How to College. She consults with colleges who wish to create their own first-year transitions courses. She was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at American University for 20 years.

Lara Hope Schwartz is the co-author of How to College. She teaches in the Department of Government at the American University School of Public Affairs (SPA) and is the Director of the Project on Civil Discourse. She came to the SPA after a career as an attorney, civil rights advocate, and strategist.

Sam Quinones is the author of Dreamland. He is a journalist, author and storyteller whose two acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction about Mexico and Mexican immigration—True Tales From Another Mexico and Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream—made him, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, “the most original writer on Mexico and the border.” He lives in Los Angeles.

Join us for Dinner with Nathaniel Rich and
Dashka Slater!

7:00 p.m.
Caesars Palace, Neopolitan Ballroom (Promenade Level)

Dinner and author panel, with a book signing to follow

Nathaniel Rich is the author of Losing Earth. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and his essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The Daily Beast. He is also the author of three novels—King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor’s Tongue—and a book about film noir, San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and young son.

Dashka Slater has written many books, including Baby Shoes, The Sea Serpent and Me, Escargot, and Dangerously Ever After. She is also an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, and Mother Jones. She lives in California. She is the author of The 57 Bus.

 

PLUS—don’t miss our Twitter Sweepstakes!

Enter to win signed books from each of our authors who will be speaking at FYE 2019! To enter, simply:

• Follow @macmillanreads on Twitter
• Retweet our sweepstakes tweet (see below) with the following tags and hashtags: “#FYE19 #sweepstakes @macmillanreads”
• For a bonus entry, follow us on Instagram (@macmillanreads)

Macmillan’s FYE19 Sweepstakes will be open from Saturday, February 16 at 5 p.m. (PST), until Tuesday, February 19th at 11:59 p.m. (PST). Please see below for the complete rules.

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You’re Invited to Macmillan’s Author Lunch at #FYE19!

Sunday, February 17th • 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.    
Caesars Palace | Neopolitan Ballroom
(Promenade Level)
Lunch and author panel, with book signings to follow

This event is free! (RSVP is required—click here!)

Featuring:

Anna Rosling Rönnlund
co-author of
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Flatiron Books | About the Book

Andrea Malkin Brenner and Lara Hope Schwartz
authors of
How to College
What to Know Before You Go (and When You’re There)
St. Martin’s Press | About the Book

Anna Clark
author of
The Poisoned City
Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Henry Holt, and Co. | About the Book

Sam Quinones
author of
Dreamland
The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Bloomsbury USA | About the Book

Join us for dinner with Nathaniel Rich and Dashka Slater at #FYE19!

Sunday, February 17 • 7 p.m.   
Caesars Palace | Neopolitan Ballroom
Dinner and author panel, with book signings to follow

This event is free! (RSVP is required—click here!)

Featuring:

Nathaniel Rich
author of
Losing Earth
A Recent History
MCD Books | About the Book

Dashka Slater
author of
The 57 Bus
A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
Farrar, Straus & Giroux BYR | About the Book

Jose Antonio Vargas
author of
Dear America
Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
HarperCollins Publishers

David Sheff
author of
Beautiful Boy
A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt