Award-winning Elizabeth McCracken plays with genre in The Hero of This Book, her new novel about a writer ruminating on, and grieving, her recently deceased mother. New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun traces her life, her complicated relationship with her father, and their shared love of the poet Frank O’Hara in her new memoir Also A Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me. These two dynamic authors will talk about art, memory, and larger-than-life parents.
This session will be live streamed on Facebook.
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Ada Calhoun is the New York Times-bestselling author of Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me; Why We Can’t Sleep; Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give; and St. Marks Is Dead. She has written for The New York Times, New Republic, and Washington Post.
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Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books. She’s received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Thunderstruck & Other Stories won the 2015 Story Prize. She teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, and in the low residency MFA program at Bennington College. Her work includes Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, and The Souvenir Museum. Her latest novel is The Hero of This Book.
Josh Alvarez is a senior editor at Texas Monthly, where he oversees the magazine’s arts and entertainment section. Before joining TM in 2021, he served as an op-ed editor at the Washington Post and as an associate editor at Washington Monthly. He is a graduate of Stanford University and New York University and grew up in the Chicago suburbs. He lives in Georgetown.
