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Book Talk – Madeline Miller “Circe”
March 28, 2020 @ 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
$25
Don’t miss the chance to hear novelist Madeline Miller speak with her editor Lee Boudreaux about her phenomenally successful retelling of the life of the Greek goddess, Circe, on Festival Day at Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival 2020.
Described as “bold and subversive” (The New York Times), “blisteringly modern” (The Times) and “a daring feminist take on a classic narrative” (O Magazine), Circehas won numerous awards and accolades, and was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
Tickets ($25) will include an advanced paperback copy of Circe, available for pick up at Watchung Booksellers after April 14, 2020. Tickets available bit.ly/2rE9ZTI
Madeline Miller has taught and tutored Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare to high school students for over 15 years. The Song of Achilles, her first novel, was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, Circe, was winner of the Goodreads Choice Award, and was widely named best book of the year.
Lee Boudreaux is Vice President and Editorial Director of Lee Boudreaux Books. She joined Little, Brown in 2014 after nine years as Editorial Director of Ecco, a division of HarperCollins. Novels she has edited have won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orange Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and have been finalists for the National Book Award, the Booker prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
This event is part of Succeed2gether’s fourth annual Montclair Literary Festival, which will take place from March 25 to 29, 2020. Visit succeed2gether.org/montclair-literary-festival/ for more details of the program, which will feature more than 100 authors. The festival is a fundraiser for Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers free after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education opportunity gap in Essex County.
