Online Event: Murder Mystery Writing with Valerie Wilson Wesley
NJ, United StatesAlways wanted to be a modern-day Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle? Have you ever read a mystery novel and knew you could come up with a better plot? Join Valerie Wilson Wesley as she shows you how it's done in this murder mystery writing workshop. With insight from her own experiences in writing mystery novels, Valerie will discuss the crafting ...
Online Event: Get Published Today with The Book Doctors
NJ, United StatesIt is the greatest time in history to be a writer. The barrier to publishing has been torn down and now anyone can get published. But to get published successfully is a whole other matter. The Book Doctors – Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry – take you through the entire publishing process in their Get Published Today workshop. This step-by-step, soups-to-nuts workshop ...
Online Book Talk: Imbolo Mbue “How Beautiful We Were” with Elisabeth Egan
NJ, United StatesJoin us as we celebrate the launch of Imbolo Mbue's new book How Beautiful We Were on Saturday March 13 at 4 p.m. Imbolo will be in conversation with Elisabeth Egan, an editor at the New York Times Book Review. Author of the New York Times bestseller and award-winning Behold the Dreamers, Mbue’s second book is a sweeping, wrenching story ...
Online Book Talk: Kevin Barry “That Old Country Music”
NJ, United StatesExplore 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 ...
Online Book Talk: New Voices with Amir Ahmadi Arian and Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
NJ, United StatesThen the Fish Swallowed Him is Amir Ahmadi Arian’s acclaimed first novel in English after a career as a journalist, author and translator in Iran. Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer is a psychology professor and science writer who has turned to fiction with her first novel, a hypnotic thriller: The Mask Collectors. Nancy Star talks to these two compelling debut novelists, accomplished ...
Online Book Talk: Bringing Korean Stories to the World
NJ, United StatesFrances Cha’s riveting debut novel If I Had Your Face, depicts four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, ruthless social hierarchies and K-pop mania. She speaks with Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee, a Reese’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller. Her debut novel illustrates ...
Online Book Talk: Don Lemon “This Is The Fire” with Joy-Ann Reid
NJ, United StatesDon Lemon's new book This Is The Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism is an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, which he hopes will "help heal America". Host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, he will be talking with political analyst and MSNBC host of The ReidOut, Joy-Ann Reid on Saturday March 20 at 7 p.m. Beginning ...
Online Book Talk: Avni Doshi “Burnt Sugar” with Christina Baker Kline
NJ, United StatesShortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020, Burnt Sugar looks at the “complex and unusual mother-daughter relationship with honest, unflinching realism – sometimes emotionally wrenching but also cathartic, written with poignancy and memorability.” Set in India, it is a story about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal. Speaking from Dubai, author Avni Doshi ...
Online Book Talk: Caribbean Voices with Cherie Jones and Maisy Card
NJ, United StatesNominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist, and shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Maisy Card discusses her electric family saga These Ghosts are Family, a transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations. She will be in conversation with Cherie Jones, author of the ...
Online Book Talk: Writing Across Cultures in English and Spanish with Ernesto Quiñonez and Pilar Fraile Amador
NJ, United StatesErnesto Quiñonez, author of the landmark novel, Bodega Dreams, talks about his latest book, Taína, a uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel ripe with magical realism, music, sorcery and redemption, with a sweeping narrative. He will be joined by Pilar Fraile Amador, speaking from Spain, about her novel, Days of Euphoria (Días de euforia). She is considered by critics as one of ...
Online Book Talk: Poets Laureate in Conversation with Andrew Motion and Billy Collins
NJ, United StatesDubbed “the most popular poet in America,” Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender, or profound observations on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself. Collins’s level of fame is almost unprecedented in the world of contemporary poetry: his readings regularly sell out. He served two terms ...
Online Book Talk: Douglas Stuart “Shuggie Bain” with Alan Cumming
NJ, United StatesJoin Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart as he speaks with fellow Scot and award-winning actor, author, filmmaker, and activist Alan Cumming about his 2020 Booker Prize-winning debut novel Shuggie Bain. Shuggie Bain is a heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love. It follows the childhood of Hugh “Shuggie” Bain and his wayward, alchoholic mother Agnes, an epic portrayal of a working-class ...
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 ...
The Candy House with Jennifer Egan
The Sanctuary, First Congregational Church 40 Sth Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ, United StatesWe are thrilled to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan in conversation about her eagerly anticipated new book The Candy House with bestselling author Garth Risk Hallberg. A 'sibling novel' to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Candy House is an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer ...
Elizabeth Alexander: The Trayvon Generation
The Sanctuary, First Congregational Church 40 Sth Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ, United StatesJoin us on Festival Day, Saturday, May 7, at 12 p.m. (EST) as we welcome Pulitzer Prize Finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet Elizabeth Alexander. Elizabeth will be live and in-person talking about her new book, The Trayvon Generation, with feminist activist, author, and scholar Salamishah Tillet. Originally published as an essay in the New Yorker, The Trayvon Generation expands ...
Don Winslow: City on Fire
The Sanctuary, Unitarian Universalist Congregation 67 Church St, MontclairJoin us in welcoming crime writer and political commentator Don Winslow, "one of America's greatest storytellers", according to Stephen King, on Sunday, May 8 at 6 p.m. (EST). Don will be live, in-person, and in conversation with CBS News' senior national correspondent Jim Axelrod. The #1 international bestselling author of The Cartel trilogy and The Force, Don will be talking about his new book City ...
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 ...