Also a Poet - Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

"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. 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. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves ... literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond"--

About the author

Ada Calhoun is the New York Times bestselling author of St. Marks Is Dead, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, and Why We Can't Sleep. She has written for the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Washington Post.

Product details

• Authors: Ada Calhoun, Ada Calhoun
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2022
• EAN: 9780802159786
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-5978-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 456 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; New York City, Memoirs, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Family history, tracing ancestors, Biography & non-fiction prose, Relating to the stages of life, TOPICAL / Women's Interest, Frank O'Hara;memoirs, Frank O'Hara; memoirs