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. Subscribe now to The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever else you find your podcasts!Īda Calhoun is the New York Times bestselling author of St. And listening to those tapes, I really kind of wish he had. And those were things that my father did not take from him. 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. And there was something poignant that actually Frank O’Hara had these other qualities that I hadn’t known about that focused attention on people, the way that he loved people so well and the way that he loved children and how free he was. And so hearing him do these interviews and what he what he saw in his glamor, his wit, and his charm, I think that was something my father tried to emulate. But I knew there must be a lot of things. I loved Lunch Poems and I didn’t really understand what else my father had gotten from him. On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan is joined by Ada Calhoun to discuss her latest book, Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, out now from Grove Press.Īda Calhoun: That’s what I think was so interesting about listening to the tapes was learning why loved.
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