Calhoun, Ada
Summary: "When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALHOUN, ADA CALSpring, Justin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 PORTER SPRBernier, Rosamond.
Summary: Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life--remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience--and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERNIER, ROSAMOND BernierCoutts, Marion
Summary: The author recounts the painful time in her life when her husband was dying of a brain tumor while her young son was just developing language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COUTTS, MARION COUSummary: M.J. Clayton is a high profile Chicago art critic who is known for his heartless commentaries. He retreats to his Mackinac Island cottage to clear his head after receiving a scolding from his boss. There he runs into a recent victim of one of his particularly nasty reviews and makes a drunken proclamation. This is followed by an impossible wager which he then finds himself entered into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MTI Home Video 2009