We hope to see you on the Plaza October 14 – 16!Īda Calhoun | Photo by Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet Our own Lindsay Lynch chatted with Ada about the book and her writing process ahead of her appearance at the Southern Festival of Books on October 14 at 12pm ( view the full schedule here). When Ada set out to finish the biography of poet Frank O’Hara that her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had started forty years earlier, she came face to face with her father’s past, her own childhood, and the complexity of her family bonds. In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as providing new insights into the life of one of our most important poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave behind.A literary obsession, a fraught father-daughter relationship, and a reckoning with the past make up Ada Calhoun’s moving and tender memoir, Also a Poet. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. A staggering memoir from New York Times -bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada Calhoun 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, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier.
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