Join 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: …
Rebecca Makkai: I Have Some Questions for You
Join 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 …
Tracy K. Smith: To Free the Captives
Succeed2gether’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 …
Colson Whitehead: Crook Manifesto
Succeed2gether’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 …
Jon Meacham ‘And There Was Light’
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 …
Elizabeth Alexander: The Trayvon Generation
Join 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 …
The Candy House with Jennifer Egan
We 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 …
Salman Rushdie ‘Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020’
Join 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 …
Richard Thompson & Elvis Costello ‘Words & Music’
Join 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. …
Online Book Talk: Douglas Stuart “Shuggie Bain” with Alan Cumming
Join 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 …
Online Book Talk: Don Lemon “This Is The Fire” with Joy-Ann Reid
Don 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: Imbolo Mbue “How Beautiful We Were” with Elisabeth Egan
Join 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: Poets Laureate in Conversation with Andrew Motion and Billy Collins
Dubbed “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: Writing Across Cultures in English and Spanish with Ernesto Quiñonez and Pilar Fraile Amador
Ernesto 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: Caribbean Voices with Cherie Jones and Maisy Card
Nominated 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: Avni Doshi “Burnt Sugar” with Christina Baker Kline
Shortlisted 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 …