Ada Calhoun - You're Booked

This week we are heading to Brooklyn and the home of Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun! Ada wrote the fantastic history of New York St Marks is Dead and the hugely popular memoir Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give. Her new book is the already bestselling Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis. We talked to her about New York writers, the New York Post, true crime, memoir, Dolly Parton and rediscovering classic YA. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give Ada Calhoun - Why We Can’t Sleep Dawn Powell - Wicked Pavilion Dawn Powell - Locusts Have No King Ada Calhoun - St Marks is Dead Eilert Sundt - Sexual Customs in Rural Norway Lisa Sliwa - Attitude Susannah Cahalan - Great Pretender Susannah Cahalan - Brain on Fire Karen Abbott - Ghosts of Eden Park Lisa Carver - Dancing Queen Derek Jarman - Chroma N. Whittal-Perry - Treasury of Traditional Wisdom George Eliot - Middlemarch Barbara Wersba - Beautiful Losers Barbara Wersba - Fat A Love Story Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat Melissa Broder - The Pisces M Masters - Case of the Clever Computer Crooks PG Wodehouse - Psmith in the City PG Wodehouse - Right Ho Jeeves Wilkie Collins - Woman in White Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Jane Austen - Emma Mildred Gilman - Sob Sister Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble Jane Gardam - Old Filth Annie Baker - John Annie Baker - Flick Michael Ondaatje - Warlight Michael Ondaatje - English Patient Oscar Wilde - Decay of Lying Maureen Callahan - American Predator David Carr - Night of the Gun Joe Coomer - Flatland Fable Lewis Shiner - Glimpses Lewis Shiner - Slam Salman Rushdie - Quichotte Olivia Laing - Lonely City Gilbert King - Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King - Devil in the Grove Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed James Leo Herlihy - Season of the Witch Sarah Hepola - Blackout Richard Ford - The Sportswriter Tara Allmen - Menopause Confidential Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time Daniel Lipkowitz - Lego Ideas Book Abby Frucht - Liquorice Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping Dolly Parton - My Life and Other Unfinished Business