Ada Calhoun
Appearances & Tours

Upcoming Appearances

Wed, June 15, 2022
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Porter Square Books
Cambridge, MA
ALSO a POET w/ALYSIA ABBOTT at PORTER SQUARE BOOKS in Cambridge!
Thu, June 16, 2022
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Solid State Books
Washington, DC
ALSO A POET at SOLID STATE in DC!

Join us in person to welcome Ada Calhoun discussing her new memoir Also a Poet! This is an in-store, in person event free and open for all to attend!

Sat, June 18, 2022
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Millbrook Bookstore
Millbrook, NY
ALSO a POET at MERRITT BOOKSTORE in MILLBROOK, NY!
Tue, June 21, 2022
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Seminary Co-op Booksore
Chicago, IL
ALSO a POET w/JEFF DEUTSCH at SEMINARY CO-OP in CHICAGO!
Wed, June 22, 2022
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Elliott Bay Bookstore
Seattle, WA
ALSO a POET at ELLIOTT BAY BOOKSTORE in SEATTLE!
Sat, June 25, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
ALSO a POET at THE RUBY in SAN FRANCISCO!
Mon, June 27, 2022
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Skylight Books
Los Angeles, CA
ALSO a POET at SKYLIGHT in LOS ANGELES!

A free, in-person event to discuss the staggering new memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet.

Wed, June 29, 2022
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
ALSO a POET at WARWICK'S in SAN DIEGO!
Tue, July 12, 2022
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
ALSO a POET at BOOKSMART in TULSA!
Sun, July 17, 2022
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ALSO A POET - NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY EVENT

Please join us in person on Sunday, July 17 at 3pm, as Ada Calhoun reads and discusses her latest book: Also A Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me. Publication date: June 14, 2022.

Sun, August 21, 2022
5:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Omega Institute
Rhinebeck, NY
FIVE-DAY MEMOIR WORKSHOP

A rare memoir workshop this August 2022 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY! Explore tactics of memoir writing, develop your themes, and get a lot of writing done in this intensive with New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun.

Past Appearances

Why We Can't Sleep Book Tour

March 4, 2021
Why We Can't Sleep at LOYALTY BOOKS [virtually] in Washington D.C.!
March 2, 2021
Why We Can't Sleep at MAGERS & QUINN [virtually] in Minneapolis!
February 23, 2021
Why We Can't Sleep at LEFT BANK BOOKS in St. Louis [virtually] with Susannah Cahalan!
February 9, 2021
Why We Can't Sleep at BOOKSHOP SANTA CRUZ [virtually] with Liza Monroy!
February 7, 2021
Why We Can't Sleep at DENIZEN THEATRE - 2pm - ON (very socially distanced) STAGE with Margi Conklin and 12pm - livestreaming!
February 1, 2021
Why We Can't Sleep at FAMILY ACTION NETWORK in Chicago [virtually] with Dr. Deb Siegel-Acevedo!
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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give Book Tour

November 23, 2018
SOB SISTERS hosting Susan Orlean at BOOKS ARE MAGIC!
November 17, 2018
WEDDING TOASTS I'LL NEVER GIVE READING at the MIAMI BOOK FAIR
November 14, 2018
SOB SISTERS BAR NIGHT for the MIAMI BOOK FAIR. Co-hosting a reading of and about women reporters, in Little Havana! DJ to follow.
July 1, 2018
HOLLYWOOD, CA - Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give - West Coast Paperback Book Launch! With Carlene Bauer (Frances and Bernard). Free Champagne and Snacks!
June 5, 2018
BROOKLYN, NY - Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give - Paperback Book Launch! With Susannah Cahalan (Brain on Fire) and Neal Medlyn. Free Champagne and Snacks!
May 23, 2018
PORTLAND, ME - Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give Reading, in conversation with Mira Ptacin.
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St. Marks is Dead Book Tour

June 28, 2018
NEW YORK, NY - St. Marks Is Dead - W.O.(e).R.D Woman of Experience Read Downtown. Hosted by Heather Litteer
April 14, 2017
NYC: Secrets of the East Village: Spring KGB Red Room literary salon with Tony Perrottet. Wine reception at 7.30 pm. Followed by cash bar, and live jazz from the Kait McKendrick duo. Free and open to the public! Bring friends!
February 16, 2017
St. Marks is Dead at the Tompkins Library
November 10, 2016
St. Marks Is Dead paperback launch and book party with Q&A and booze at Word Bookstore
June 30, 2016
​Summer Writers’ Conference at Rutgers
May 25, 2016
“How I Learned” Series at Union Hall in Brooklyn
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