Open Book / Open Mind

The author of “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” talks about her new family saga set in the 1980s spanning Philadelphia and small-town Alabama with a notable memoirist and novelist.

A New York columnist and an Emmy-winning producer discuss their instant New York Times bestseller about a storied Hollywood dynasty with the executive director of Montclair Film.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning former executive editor of The New York Times discusses a little known chapter of the Civil War including his own ancestors with a National Book Award-winning historian.

The executive wine editor of Food and Wine magazine talks about his acclaimed new book with the owner of Amanti Vino in Montclair. Followed by a wine-tasting fundraiser with the Library Foundation.

NJCH is a proud sponsor of Open Book / Open Mind, a flagship series of literary events organized by Montclair Public Library whereby top authors discuss their new books and current events in front of a live audience. Next in this series is a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond about his #1 New York Times bestseller on the causes of poverty with Andrea Elliott, a Pulitzer-winning author and New York Times journalist.

NJCH is a proud sponsor of Open Book / Open Mind, a flagship series of literary events organized by Montclair Public Library whereby top authors discuss their new books and current events in front of a live audience. Next in this series is a discussion with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on his memoir Chasing Hope. The […]