Bestselling author Ada Calhoun will read from her debut novel,Crush, which has been named one of the most anticipated books of 2025 by The New Yorker, Time, and The Washington Post. Molly Ringwald describes Crush as “…a gripping fever dream of a book leading the reading into the beguiling depths of desire, ecstasy, and obsession,” while Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow, says, “Ada Calhoun writes with absolute clarity about the giddiest and most destabilizing feeling—the crush. This novel made me feel dizzy and I loved every second. Calhoun can seduce me any day of the week.”

In addition to Crush, Ada Calhoun is also the author of Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, which was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New York Times, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and NPR, St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street, and Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis.