![]() ![]() Calhoun, who never misses a deadline, is confident she can finish the book her father had started forty years earlier.Īs 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. She is mystified that her father never finished the project, all the more so because O’Hara is his idol and the reason why he moved to New York. The tapes contain interviews with legendary New York School painters and writers as well as O’Hara’s family. While there, she stumbles upon dusty old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O’Hara. ![]() Masks are required for attendees.Ībout the book: In the fall of 2018 Calhoun was in the basement of her childhood home in lower Manhattan looking for a toy to give her goddaughter. This event will be held in-person at the Seminary Co-op. Ada Calhoun will discuss "Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me." She will be joined in conversation by Jeff Deutsch. ![]()
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