Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present…
A Virtual Evening with
DARCEY STEINKE
& ADA CALHOUN
discussing
Flash Count Diary:
Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life
(Picador, $26)
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“[Darcey Steinke] has written a searingly intelligent, richly imagined, deeply moving memoir and exploration of menopause . . . I love this book. I admire this book. I want everyone to read this book. It’s fierce, and it’s important.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls
“Sentence by sentence, a brilliant piece of writing suffused with all Steinke’s characteristic wit, darkness, and profundity . . . I trust her deeply, will go wherever she wants to take me.” —Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts
DARCEY STEINKE is the author of the memoirs Flash Count Diary and Easter Everywhere and the novels Milk, Jesus Saves, Suicide Blonde, Up Through the Water, and Sister Golden Hair. With Rick Moody, she edited Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited. Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian. She has been both a Henry Hoyns Fellow and a Stegner Fellow as well as a writer in residence at the University of Mississippi, and has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts, Barnard, the American University of Paris, and Princeton.
ADA CALHOUN is a New York City-based journalist and the author of St. Marks Is Dead, named a best book of the year by the Boston Globe and Kirkus; Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, named one of the top ten memoirs of the year by W; and the “generation-defining” sensation Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis, which came out in January 2020. A popular freelance writer and editor, she has also ghostwritten or co-written fourteen nonfiction books for major publishers.