Deep Water Literary Fest and CAS Presents Ada Calhoun and Susannah Cahalan in conversation with Aaron Hicklin.

About the Artists

Ada Calhoun is the author of Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, named one of the Best Books of 2022 by The Washington Post, NPR, and Oprah Daily. The New York Times named it one of the year’s 100 Notable Books. Previous books include the New York City history St. Marks Is Dead, the essay collection Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, and New York Times bestseller Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis. Her debut novel, Crush, will be published this May.

Susannah Cahalan is a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, journalist and public speaker. Her first book, Brain on Fire, has sold over a million copies and has been translated into more than twenty languages. Her second book, The Great Pretender, was shortlisted for the Royal Society’s 2020 Science Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey with her family.