Literature

Montclair author Dorothea Benton Frank discusses her new book, "Same Beach, Next Year."

Melissa D. Sullivan asks: why write?

All Write Now columnist Melissa D. Sullivan points to six titles coming in 2019 that she's looking forward to: something for everyone.

Montclair middle school students rocked the stage at the first-ever Succeed2gether/Montclair Literary Festival Poetry Slam and Short Story Contest, which drew some 200 people to Montclair High on March 31.Judges noted the 30 performers’...

Michael Gabriele will talk about New Jersey's huge role in the folk music revival on Monday at the Montclair Library: from taverns to today.

Author Liza Mundy will discuss the women code-breakers of World War II in "Open Book/Open Mind" on May 29.

Montclair resident Charles Joseph’s “Chameleon,” a collection of poems and stories, came out on June 21. To celebrate the release, Joseph is holding a poetry reading and open mic titled “Verses on Church Street”...

Halfway There, Montclair’s authors’ reading series, returns to the Red Eye Cafe on Monday, Jan. 22. The evening will feature Kim Coleman Foote, Evie Shockley, Bud Smith and Nancy Star. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.,...

Wheeler Antabanez of Montclair's "Words of Overbrook" is a book of free-verse inspired by the demolition of the Essex County Mental Hospital in Cedar Grove and the complex of tunnels connecting the asylum’s many structures.

BY GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.newsOn a distant planet, somewhere, someone may be listening to the the uillean (pronounced “illin”) pipes, accompanied by the insistent sound of the goat-skin drum the bodhrán (“bahran”), and believe it to...