ADA CALHOUN is The New York Times bestselling author of Crush: A Novel (Viking), hailed by the Today show as a “best romance” and praised by The Washington Post for its “whirlwind of desire and possibility.” She is also the author of the memoir Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, which The New York Times called “a big valentine to New York City past and present, and a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul.” Past books include Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis; Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give; and St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street.