Heather Sellers at RU 11/17

Here's one more thing to be thankful for before Thanksgiving break: Heather Sellers! Sellers, author of the new, critically acclaimed memoir, You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, will read from her work, which chronicles a dysfunctional childhood and her rare neurological disorder, prosopagnosia, or face blindness , at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17 at Roosevelt University, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. As always, coffee and cookies will be served at 4:30 p.m.

“I remember she came into the class and told us right away that every time she sees a face it’s as if she’s seeing it for the first time. She only knew me by my long blond hair,” said Roosevelt University Creative Writing Program student Lauren Stacks, an aspiring novelist, poet and short-story writer whose idea it was to bring Sellers to Roosevelt University as part of this year’s Creative Writing Program reading series.

Sellers, whose struggle has been featured by the New York Times, NBC Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, People Magazine, Time and other national outlets. Her memoir is also a November pick for Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club. Get to the Gage before Oprah's Book Club does, or there wont be any good cookies left!

Happy Course Registration Time!

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Like picking out Channuka gifts or registering your wedding at an academic Crate&Barrel, course registration is all about dreaming big. Will you take night classes? will you have two workshops and a literature course? Will your teacher assign movies to watch outside of class? Will they use blackboard or Norton Anthologies? Will there be potential new facebook friends sitting next to you? The possibilities are endless.

So close your eyes and make a wish and all your courses will come true...wait that's not how we do it anymore. Sign up for an advising session with Scott or Janet to discuss your plan and get your registration code. Then come hang out and chat about what classes you signed up for at RU's next Reading Series event: Heather Seller's Nov 17th.

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Heather Sellers has been Oprahed!

Heather Sellers' memoir You don't look like anyone I know has been honored in Oprah's book club for the month of November! Get excited to see her at Roosevelt Nov 17th. Coffee and conversation starts at 4:30 in the Gage Gallery. You'd be crazy not to come.

Here are just a few links to Sellers' numerous appearances on NBC Today,

ABC's Good Morning American, People Magazine, Poets & Writers. Snack on these until she's here with us in person!

Roosevelt Reading Series Fall Preview

The Roosevelt Reading Series kicks off next Monday with a reading by Ben Fountain. Fountain will read from his acclaimed novel,
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara.

Tom Grimes (author of Mentor) will read on October 27th, and Heather Sellers (published in three genres) will conclude the fall Roosevelt Reading Series on November 17th.

Reading Series events are hosted at the Gage Gallery, across the street from Millenium Park. Coffee and cookies are served at 4:30pm, and the readings begin at 5pm.