6/20/2023 0 Comments Ada calhoun also a poet![]() Save this list to your Library Collections now. Exceptional in both their prose and narration, these listens represent a few of the year's best memoirs. ![]() What does it mean to be human? What is our purpose in being here? How much of who we are is purely self-determined? How much is an amalgamation of all those who have left an impact on us? Like all great autobiographies, the very best memoirs of 2022 muse on those questions, contemplating everything from the impact of art and culture on identity to navigating the labyrinthine worlds of grief and illness, addiction and recovery. There are few stories more compelling or more intimately told than those soul-baring memoirs that seek not just to recount the experiences of one's own life but to draw some greater commentary on the big existential questions. Check out The Best of 2022 to see our top picks in every category. ![]() ![]() This list is part of our Best of the Year collection, an obsessively curated selection of our editors' and listeners' favorite audio in 2022. Summary: When New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter. 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. In her memoir Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, Ada Calhoun set out to write a poet’s biography and found a connection to her father instead. ![]()
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