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Online Book Talk: Addiction and the Family
NJ, United StatesWelcome to Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2020! Our fourth FREE online event is a discussion about addiction and how it affects the family dynamic. Register here. Eilene Zimmerman’s powerful memoir, Smacked: A Story of White Collar Ambition, Addiction and Tragedy, examines the world of white-collar drug abuse as the author pieces together the mysteries surrounding her ex-husband’s descent into drug addiction, while Dr. Larry ...
Online Book Talk: The Future of Reading
NJ, United StatesWelcome to Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2020! Our fifth FREE online event is a conversation about reading, writing, and the role of libraries. Please note this event has been pre-recorded so the Q&A function is disabled. Register here. Montclair Public Library Director Peter Coyl talks with Newark Librarian Maisy Card about her electric family saga, These Ghosts are Family, and about how being a librarian impacted ...
Online Book Talk: Gender Politics – Breaking Boundaries
NJ, United StatesWelcome to Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2020! Our sixth FREE online event is a discussion about gender politics and women breaking boundaries. Register here. Montclair State University Professor and Chair of Sociology, Yasemin Besen-Cassino talks to the authors of three recent books about women breaking cultural norms and how their experience reflects on the gender politics of today. Nancy Princenthal’s Unspeakable Acts: Women, ...
Online Book Talk: American Poison with Eduardo Porter
NJ, United StatesWelcome to Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2020! Our seventh FREE online event is a discussion about American racism and the ongoing wounds. Register here. Veteran NY Times journalist Eduardo Porter’s book, American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise, is a sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American—and ...
Online Book Talk: 2020 and The Future of American Politics
NJ, United StatesWelcome to Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2020! Our eighth FREE online event is a discussion about American politics in 2020 and what lies ahead. Register here. From his anti-immigration campaign in 2016 through the Democratic wave of 2018 and impeachment, Donald Trump has been the most polarizing president in modern history. New York Times National Correspondent Kate Zernike leads a discussion about the ...
Online Book Talk: Virtual Brunch with Adam Platt
NJ, United StatesWelcome to Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2020! Join us for our last Festival event – Virtual Brunch with Adam Platt. Grab take-out from your favorite local eatery or cook your own and tell us what you're eating! Register here. Food writer and journalist Marissa Rothkopf Bates talks with Adam Platt, New York Magazine food critic and the author of The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...