2021 Online Events
Online Book Talk: Deesha Philyaw “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies”
NJ, United StatesJoin us for the first Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival event for 2021 – a talk by Deesha Philyaw about her debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Her book was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for fiction and for the Story Prize. It focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church and features four generations of ...
Richard Thompson & Elvis Costello ‘Words & Music’
NJ, United StatesJoin legendary UK singer and guitarist Richard Thompson for the launch of his memoir Beeswing: Losing My Voice and Finding My Way 1967-1975 with iconic singer-songwriter Elvis Costello on Tuesday April 6 at 8 p.m. (EST). A LIVE conversation with music. Beeswing is a moving and immersive memoir, in which Richard recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way again. ...
Salman Rushdie ‘Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020’
NJ, United StatesJoin renowned storyteller Salman Rushdie for a literary conversation about his latest book Languages of Truth: Essays 2003–2020 on Tuesday, June 22 at 8 p.m. (EST). He will be live in conversation with author and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Nathan Englander. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison mean to him, on the page or in ...