Posts From Author: Month: June 2017

Seriously Questioning…Ada Calhoun

Ada Calhoun is the author of two nonfiction books recently published by W.W. Norton & Co.: St. Marks Is Dead was named a New York Times Editors’ Pick, Amazon Book of the Month, and one of the best books of the year by Kirkus, The Boston Globe, Orlando Weekly, and The Village Voice, which called it 2015’s “Best Nonfiction Book About New York.” Her most recent work, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, is a book of essays about marriage and was released this May. On June 14, she will be speaking at House of SpeakEasy’s Seriously Entertaining show, By the Light of the Moon alongside Brad Gooch, Harry Evans, and Glenn Frankel (tickets). We spoke to Ada ahead of the show.   Name: Ada Calhoun Age: 41 Where are you from? St. Marks Place, NYC What is your occupation? Writer Title of most recent work: Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give What are you working on now? A sleep-deprived book tour. If you had to paint a scene from your childhood to capture its essence, what would you paint? I grew up in the East Village in the ‘80s (which I wrote about in my 2015 book St. Marks Is Dead). I’d paint the sidewalk at the […]
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Seriously Questioning… Glenn Frankel

  Glenn Frankel is an author and journalist, based in Arlington, Virginia. Most recently, he served as the director of the School of Journalism and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also spent time as a visiting journalism professor at Stanford University and an Alicia Patterson Fellow. Notably, he won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting when he served as Washington Post reporter, editor, and bureau chief in London, Southern Africa, and Jerusalem. His book, The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and a Library Journal Top Ten book for 2013.  His new book explores the Hollywood blacklist and the making of the classic western High Noon. On June 14, he will be speaking at House of SpeakEasy’s Seriously Entertaining show, By the Light of the Moon alongside Brad Gooch, Harry Evans, and Ada Calhoun (tickets). We spoke to Glenn ahead of the show. Name: Glenn Frankel  Age: 67 Where are you from? Born in the Bronx but raised in Rochester NY. What is your occupation? Author and Journalist Title of most recent work: High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic What are you […]
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