Also a Poet: An Evening with Ada Calhoun

15 Gramercy Park South,New York NY 10003

15 September, 2022

Description

When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old tapes of interviews that her father—The New Yorker’s celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl—had conducted for a never-completed biography of the poet Frank O’Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started 40 years earlier. The result is Also a Poet, a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic literary memoir that made Vogue’s and Esquire’s “Best Books” lists this year. Calhoun’s account alternates hard-nosed biographical sleuthing with the moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. What happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us? The New York Times Book Review calls this riveting, candid autobiography “a grand slam...a big valentine to New York City past and present, and a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul.” Please note: This event occurs in person. RSVP does not guarantee entry. Doors open to the public 15 minutes before the event. Please arrive early to check in. Our coat check is limited. Please do not bring any large bags or backpacks. Photo credit: Kathleen Hanna