Welcome to Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2020!

Our third FREE online event is a discussion about sports and being 'in the zone'.

The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks by Ben Cohen, Running to the Edge: A Band of Misfits and the Guru Who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed by Matthew Futterman, and Astroball: The New Way to Win it All, by Ben Reiter, are books that use sports to explore the world, in particular why we’re so fascinated with that magical feeling of beating the odds, becoming temporarily superhuman and transcending our internal limits.

Some call it “the hot hand,” others call it “the runner’s high”, but it’s something we’ve all felt in one way or another. The authors explain why they wrote books about it and what they learned along the way from Olympic runners, Oscar-winning directors, Nobel-winning academics, and basketball phenom Stephen Cur.

All authors appear for free and the best way to thank and support them is by buying their books!

All books can be purchased from Festival partner Watchung Booksellers.

Succeed2gether’s fourth annual Montclair Literary Festival was scheduled for March 25 to 29, 2020. Due to the current health crisis, Festival Day is now taking place online on Saturday September 12, 2020. See all of the talks by following us on Crowdcast or visiting our website events page here.

The festival is a fundraiser for Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education and opportunity gaps in Essex County, NJ. You can read more about Succeed2gether and the festival at www.succeed2gether.org. Please donate via Paypal here.

The festival organizing committee wishes to thank event partners Succeed2gether staff, Montclair Public Library, First Congregational Church, and Watchung Booksellers, and festival sponsors Rao's, Montclair State University, West of Hudson Realty Group, and community members.

Sport: In the Zone