Explore contemporary Ireland with Kevin Barry, author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, as he talks about his wonderful new collection of short stories, That Old Country Music.

Kevin will be speaking from County Sligo, Ireland, with award-winning writer Matthew Thomas. This is a free talk, held live online via Crowdcast; register and view here.

That Old Country Music tells of contemporary Ireland: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.

All authors appear for free and the best way to thank and support them is by buying their books! Kevin’s book is available from Festival partner Watchung Booksellers here.

Kevin Barry is also the author of Beatlebone, and City of Bohane. His many awards include the Goldsmiths Prize, the Lannan Foundation Literary Award and ‘Night Boat to Tangier’ was nominated for the Booker Prize. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and Granta, and he also works as a playwright and screenwriter.

Matthew Thomas is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, We Are Not Ourselves. He teaches at Xavier High School in Manhattan, as well as in NYU’s Low-Residency MFA Program in Paris and he lives in Montclair. He is working on his second novel.

This event is part of Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival’s special series of author events, Global Voices. See all of the talks here.

Any proceeds from the festival benefit parent organization, Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education and opportunity gaps in Essex County, NJ. You can read more about Succeed2gether and the festival at www.succeed2gether.org.