{"id":205625,"date":"2022-06-14T06:28:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T10:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/?page_id=205625"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:19:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:19:34","slug":"in-conversation-with-stevie-van-zandt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/2021-2022-events\/fall-2021-events\/in-conversation-with-stevie-van-zandt\/","title":{"rendered":"In Conversation with Stevie Van Zandt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, October 3rd, the Coccia Institute had the honor of launching our partnership with the Montclair Literary Festival where we presented a joint talk with Stevie Van Zandt, former actor on the Sopranos (Silvio Dante) and Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s E Street Band guitarist. The event featured a lively discussion focusing on Van Zandt&#8217;s newest memoir, &#8220;Unrequited Infatuations,&#8221; which recounts his personal story of his childhood in New Jersey and his personal struggles throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proceeds from this event benefitted Succeed2gether, a Montclair-based non-profit 501(c) organization that addresses unequal access to educational resources for low-income families and children from Montclair and Essex County, NJ. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to view photos from this event. (Photo credits to Bill Soloman)<\/p>\n<p>Click here for the event flyer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montclairlocal.news\/montclair-literary-festival-stevie-van-zandt-on-disappointment\/\">Click here<\/a> to read a raving review of the event from the Montclair Local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, October 3rd, the Coccia Institute had the honor of launching our partnership with the Montclair Literary Festival where we presented a joint talk with Stevie Van Zandt, former actor on the Sopranos (Silvio Dante) and Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s E Street Band guitarist. The event featured a lively discussion focusing on Van Zandt&#8217;s newest memoir, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":206262,"parent":205622,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-205625","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205651,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205625\/revisions\/205651"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}