Hear 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 …
Hugh Bonneville ‘Playing Under the Piano’
Join 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 …
Maggie O’Farrell ‘The Marriage Portrait’
We’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 …
Taylor Jenkins Reid ‘Carrie Soto is Back’
Bestselling 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 …
Don Winslow: City on Fire
Join 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 …
POSTPONED – An Evening with Colum McCann: Apeirogon
In 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 …