Upcoming Events
Interviewing Paul Elie at Greenlight Bookstore![]() Local Fort Greene author Paul Elie (author of the acclaimed books The Life You Save May Be Your Ownand Reinventing Bach) takes the stage at Greenlight to launch The Last Supper: a vivid and revealing new cultural history of the 1980s. An immersive group portrait, Elie traces the beginning of our age—in which religion is both surging and in decline—through the lives and work of Martin Scorsese, Madonna, Andy Warhol, U2, and many others. The Last Supper is a groundbreaking account of the origins of our postsecular present, and the moment when popular culture became the site of religious strife—strife that set the stage for some of the most salient political and cultural clashes of our day. Elie discusses the book with New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun (Crush), before an audience Q&A and signing. |
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Tue, June 3, 2025
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
50 S Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ, 07042 |
Crush: A Novel at the Montclair Public Library![]() |
Crush Conversation with Kwame Alexander at Chautauqua!![]() Ada Calhoun’s career, the Village Voice noted in 2015, “can seem as though it were cobbled together from the resumĂ©s of three ambitious journalists.” Calhoun is a reporter, essayist, memoirist, ghostwriter and — as of this year — novelist; now, she will make her Chautauqua Lecture Series debut in conversation with Kwame Alexander, discussing the passions and opportunities that have shaped her life. Ada CalÂhoun is the author of, most recently, Crush — her debut novel released in 2025. Other works include Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, which was longlistÂed for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for NonÂficÂtion; Why We Can’t Sleep: WomÂen’s New Midlife CriÂsis; St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of AmerÂiÂca’s Hippest Street; and the memÂoir WedÂding Toasts I’ll NevÂer Give. Throughout her career, Calhoun has been a crime reporter for the New York Post, freÂquent conÂtribÂuÂtor to The New York Times Book Review, and theÂater listÂings ediÂtor for New York magÂaÂzine. She is an A‑list ghostÂwriter, havÂing anonyÂmousÂly colÂlabÂoÂratÂed on 30 major nonÂficÂtion books in the past dozen years, includÂing sevÂerÂal No. 1 New York Times bestsellers. She has writÂten for Time, NationÂal GeoÂgraphÂic TravÂelÂer, the Times LitÂerÂary SupÂpleÂment, the New RepubÂlic, BillÂboard, CosÂmopoliÂtan, The WashÂingÂton Post and RedÂbook. Calhoun’s nationÂal news reportÂing has won sevÂerÂal awards, includÂing a USC-AnnenÂberg NationÂal Health JourÂnalÂism FelÂlowÂship, a Kiplinger felÂlowÂship, a CCF Media Award (for her New York Times MagÂaÂzine work on a legal chalÂlenge in AlabaÂma), a Croly Award, and an AliÂcia PatÂterÂson FounÂdaÂtion felÂlowÂship. She received a MacÂDowÂell colony stay in 2013 for St. Marks Is Dead and has been grantÂed sevÂerÂal resÂiÂdenÂcies in the New York PubÂlic Library’s scholÂars’ rooms, includÂing in 2023–24. In 2023 she was a felÂlow at the HawthornÂden CasÂtle in Scotland. Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, producer and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of 40 books, including Why Fathers Cry at Night, An American Story, The Door of No Return, Becoming Muhammad Ali (co-authored with James Patterson), Rebound, which was shortlisted for the prestigious UK Carnegie Medal, and The Undefeated — the National Book Award nominee, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Medal-winning picture book illustrated by Kadir Nelson. The Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts and Inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Chautauqua Institution, Alexander is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, The Coretta Scott King Author Honor, three NAACP Image Award nominations and the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award. In 2018, he opened the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic in Ghana, as a part of LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy program he co-founded. Alexander is executive producer, showrunner, and Emmy-winning writer of “The Crossover” TV series, which premiered on Disney+ in April 2023. “The Crossover” was produced in partnership with LeBron James’ SpringHill Company and Big Sea Entertainment, Alexander’s production company where he serves as CEO and co-founder, dedicated to creating innovative, highly original children’s and family entertainment. His mission is to change the world, one word at a time. |
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