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Ada Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and Failure

Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

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The Importance of Franco Hera

Ada, your father gave you a book of poetry by Frank O'Hara. Did it have importance to you because it had importance to your father or was that an independent attachment? My father and I thought we didn't have a lot in common, but that was always one thing I could point to as something that we both cared about. Just the idea that we both, I figured her made us both last. And that seemed like really a lot to have with my father.

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