![]() ![]() She has written for the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Washington Post. Marks Is Dead Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give and Why We Can’t Sleep. The result is a kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves literary history with an honest and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond.Īda Calhoun is the author of St. She then set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. Ada will be in conversation with Maureen Callahan a New York Times bestselling author of, most recently, American Predator.Ĭalhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O’Hara. The book traces her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with the great poet, Frank O’Hara. Ada Calhoun will discuss her latest book, Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, a staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author. ![]()
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