#ada calhoun

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Ada Calhoun on Ouida, The Most Famous Lady Novelist You’ve Never Heard Of

According to a New York Review of Books review of the re-issued 1969 Susan Taubes book Divorcing, the author committed suicide after receivi

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Found on Facebook, caption below picture, at St. Marks is Dead book party.

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Kathleen Hanna and Adam Horovitz performing at the St Marks Is Dead book release party - November 2nd 2015.

Thanks for the request @ad-rocker!

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“Now I weigh about 160 pounds. When I left the hospital after being treated for a burst appendix, I weighed 140. When I was nine months pregnant and starving every second, I weighed 210. I have been everything from size 4 to 14. I have been the life of the party and a drag. I have been broke and loaded, clinically depressed and radiantly happy.

Spread out over the years, I’m a harem.”

-Ada Calhoun

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Why Gen X Women Aren't Sleeping

In her new book, “Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis,” author Ada Calhoun explores massive debt, Gen X childhood trauma and perimenopause.

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“We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married.” New from Norton and New York Times Magazine writer Ada Calhoun comes Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give.  “Hilarious and candid.”  Perfect engagement present?  Oh, yeah.

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All we have at the end of the day is ourselves. Falling in love returned me to myself. I shook my life upside down like an old purse. I put some things into a new purse and left some things out, and that was what I’d carry for some unknown length of time. My only orders now came from Dolly Parton: “Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

— Ada Calhoun, Crush: A Novel (Viking, February 25, 2025)