Ada calhoun parents6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Wolf-the murder cleanup specialist from Pulp Fiction. ![]() ![]() I’m often brought on as a fixer to make difficult projects happen. In addition to writing my own books, I’ve ghostwritten twenty books in the past decade. I found out they were research my father, the New Yorker art critic, Peter Schjeldahl, had done as the official biographer for the poet Frank O’Hara, his hero. In the fall of 2018, I was in the basement of my parents’ apartment building in Manhattan and found a box of cassette tapes from the 1970s. In her own words, here is Ada Calhoun's Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Also a Poet: "In this fluidly morphing, magnetically candid chronicle… Calhoun offers an arresting and provocative carousel of family dynamics, creative paradoxes, literary history, unnerving dilemmas, thorny questions of inheritance and legacy, wry humor, and love" Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.Īda Calhoun's memoir Also a Poet is cleverly told, funny, and intensely moving. ![]() Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]()
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