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Family & Relationships, Memoir

Also a Poet

By Ada Calhoun

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Review of ‘Also a Poet’

Every childhood is unique, but Ada Calhoun's, as portrayed in her fearless new memoir, Also a Poet, stands out for its blend of adolescent freedom and paternal neglect. The daughter of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, Calhoun grew up at the vortex of New York City's East Village bohemia, a world she wrote about…

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