New York Times Bestselling Author Beck Dorey-Stein will partner with Nova Southeastern University Alvin Sherman and the Broward County Library Foundation to present Coffee & Conversation.
Dorey-Stein is the author of New York Times Bestseller “from the corner of the oval,” which highlights the inner workings of American politics through the eyes of a White House stenographer.
According to Gabriela Rodriguez, assistant director for special events and community partnerships at the division of advancement and community relations and NSU’s liaison to the Broward Library Foundation, “With the Broward County Library Foundation, we are able to sponsor their Lit Live event. Some of the Lit Live authors are able to go to different campuses, [including] Nova Southeastern University, to give students the opportunity to learn from the author.”
According to Marcia Silverstein, the director of marketing and community relations at the NSU Alvin Sherman Library, “The event is part of Lit Live, which is a large literary festival that is sponsored by Nova Southeastern University as well as the Broward Library Foundation. Every year they have this [event] and there are lots of authors that come from around the country to have a literary feast. There is the opportunity to meet the authors. So we are participating with the author [Beck Dorey-Stein], there’s also another [who will be speaking at the University School]. We were able to select from a pocket of authors and we decided to pick this young woman who wrote a book about her experience as President Obama’s stenographer.”
This is Dorey-Stein’s first novel and was born of her working as a stenographer for President Obama. Silverstein described the novel as the tale of the author learning “to navigate White House protocols and more than once runs afoul of the hierarchy” and highlights when politics becomes entangled with her personal life. “From the corner of the over” is based off of Dorey-Stein’s experiences as a White House stenographer.
Students interested in writing should attend and have a discussion with Dorey-Stein. The Coffee & Conversation event will be held on Friday, March 1, in the Adolfo and Marisela Cotilla Gallery on the second floor of the Alvin Sherman Library, which now houses a Haitian art exhibit, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.. Lit Live promotes engaged and interactive discussions.
“Many years ago, we actually had the literary feast [at NSU], we would literally have every single floor filled with authors and there were book sales. There would be a panel of authors and you would go in and listen to all these author’s speak.
