Book festival events will take place from 10AM to 4PM throughout the Campus Center on the University at Albany Uptown Campus, 1400 Washington Ave.
All events are FREE and open to the public. Free parking will be available in the Dutch Quad parking lots. Food vendors will be open for business.
Arce will appear on a “New American” memoir panel moderated by noted memoir coach Marion Roach Smith. The panel begins at 2:45, but authors will be available for conversation and signing throughout the day.
• Maeve Higgins, New York-based Irish comedian, co-host of Star Talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and author of the new book, Maeve in America.
• Abdi Nor Iftin, Somali refugee, “secret broadcaster” of NPR’s “Messages from Mogadishu,” and author of the new memoir, Call Me American.
• Khizr Khan, Gold Star father, 2016 Democratic Convention speaker, spokesman for Muslim-American rights, and author of An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice.
Other guests at the Albany Book Festival throughout the day will include Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gregory Maguire, Francis Lam, Lygia Penaflor, Colson Whitehead, Walter Mosley, Linda Fairstein, Annette Gordon-Reed, and many others. For a complete schedule, visit https://www.albanybookfestival.com/ .
For more information, contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620.