MLF Events
Dani Shapiro in Conversation with Deborah Davis
Glen Ridge Country Club 555 Ridgewood Ave, Glen Ridge, NJ, United StatesS2G's Montclair Literary Festival is excited to announce its first Winter Pre-Festival event on December 10, 2019. Best-selling author Dani Shapiro will talk with Deborah Davis about her gripping memoir on the meaning of parenthood and family identity. In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received ...
Book Tour – Isabel Allende: A Long Petal of the Sea
The Sanctuary, First Congregational Church 40 Sth Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ, United StatesSucceed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival is thrilled to welcome iconic author Isabel Allende to a pre-festival event in Montclair on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, to discuss her latest novel, A Long Petal of the Sea. A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile, and belonging, A Long Petal of the Sea shows Isabel Allende at the height of her powers. ...
Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers
The Sanctuary, First Congregational Church 40 Sth Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ, United StatesBestselling author, New Yorker staff writer, and podcast host Malcolm Gladwell comes to Montclair in a pre-festival event for Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival to discuss Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don’t Know. In his latest book, Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers, why they often go wrong, and how we ...
POSTPONED – An Evening with Colum McCann: Apeirogon
St James Episcopal Church of Upper Montclair 581 Valley Rd, Montclair, NJ, United StatesIn a pre-festival event for Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival, don’t miss the chance to hear Colum McCann, National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin, discuss his most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon, an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. McCann will be in conversation with New York Times ...
Taylor Jenkins Reid ‘Carrie Soto is Back’
Temple Ner Tamid 936 Broad St, Bloomfield, New Jersey, United StatesBestselling author and #BookTok favorite author Taylor Jenkins Reid is back in Montclair with Carrie Soto is Back, her only NJ event! We're thrilled to welcome author of Daisy Jones & The Six, Malibu Rising, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid on Wednesday August 31 at 7 p.m. Taylor will be live and in person talking about her ...
Maggie O’Farrell ‘The Marriage Portrait’
The Sanctuary, Unitarian Universalist Congregation 67 Church St, MontclairWe're so excited to welcome National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and Women's Prize for Fiction winner, author of Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell to Montclair on Wednesday October 19 at 7 p.m. Maggie will be live and in person talking about her new book The Marriage Portrait. This will be her only NJ event. Full of the beauty and emotion with which she illuminated the ...
Hugh Bonneville ‘Playing Under the Piano’
Temple Ner Tamid 936 Broad St, Bloomfield, New Jersey, United StatesJoin us for a night of laughs and entertainment with one of today's best-loved British actors, Hugh Bonneville, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill and Paddington.Hugh will be live and in person talking about his moving memoir Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru on Tuesday November 15 at 7 p.m. This is an NJ exclusive! Whether ...
Jon Meacham ‘And There Was Light’
Online Event New Jersey, United StatesHear Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham discuss his new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle in an online event on THURSDAY DECEMBER 8 (NEW DATE) at 7 p.m. (EST). Jon will be in conversation with Rutgers University professor and political historian Louis Masur. In this new illuminating portrait, Meacham chronicles the life of Lincoln ...
Colson Whitehead: Crook Manifesto
The Sanctuary, First Congregational Church 40 Sth Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ, United StatesSucceed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival and Montclair Public Library's Open Book/Open Mind series are delighted to welcome two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead to discuss the latest installment of his Harlem saga, Crook Manifesto, a hugely entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. Colson will be live and in person on Saturday, September 23, at 4 p.m, in conversation ...
Tracy K. Smith: To Free the Captives
Presentation Hall, School of Communication & Media, Montclair State University 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, United StatesSucceed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival is thrilled to invite you to an evening with former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet Tracy K. Smith To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, a self-examination study on memory, family, and history, exploring how we might come together to a new view of our shared past. In 2020, heartsick ...
Rebecca Makkai: I Have Some Questions for You
The Sanctuary, Unitarian Universalist Congregation 67 Church St, MontclairJoin us on Thursday, February 22, at 7 p.m as we kick off Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival's first event of 2024 with Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-finalist Rebecca Makkai talking about her New York Times bestseller and "twisty, immersive whodunit" I Have Some Questions for You. Rebecca will be in conversation with award-winning and bestselling author of The Buddha ...
Harlan Coben-‘Think Twice’
The Sanctuary, First Congregational Church 40 Sth Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ, United StatesJoin us on Tuesday May 14 at 7PM as Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival welcomes Harlan Coben on the publication day of his new novel, 'Think Twice'. How can a man who’s already dead be wanted for murder? Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: ...