Join us October 17-19 in downtown Brattleboro. You can't go wrong with any of these events! We love these books. #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025 #AriaAber @jessicaanthony.bsky.social @williamboyle.bsky.social @adacalhoun.bsky.social @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social #TimothyCrellin #MarcyDermansky

Join us in October to welcome @adacalhoun.bsky.social to the 2025 Festival! Her latest book, Crush, was published in February. Isaac Fitzgerald writes, "⁣Crush marks Calhoun’s arrival as a novelist, and what an incredibly explosive arrival it is.” #AdaCalhoun #fiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival

Day 7 #1000wordsofsummer 2025 Because doing your own work is important to you.

Today's #1000wordsofsummer contributing author is the great @adacalhoun.bsky.social! And she's talking to us about having confidence in our work. ❤️1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/day-6-1000wordsofsumme...

Book: WHY WE CAN'T SLEEP Women's New Midlife Crisis ADA CALHOUN

I feel like this is going to maybe break me. And I’m only on the introduction. @adacalhoun.bsky.social

Adored @lilitaylor.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous book about birds and life! Get it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743576...

Can you find Crush from the incomparable @adacalhoun.bsky.social on the shelves @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social? Of course! In her debut novel, Calhoun delves into the perils and pleasures of a midlife affair in this whip-smart, funny and fabulously honest look at a rebellious romance.

Firecrackers from @adacalhoun.bsky.social and Aria Aber

Can’t wait to read the new book, @elongreen.bsky.social !

In Ada Calhoun’s ‘Crush,’ exploring the limits of marriage - The Boston Globe Is the true love affair the one we have with ourselves?

NBCC Co-Vice President/Events Lauren LeBlanc reviewed Ada Calhoun's "Crush" for The Boston Globe:

Today on All Of It: We're celebrating debut novels!📚

- @adacalhoun.bsky.social's Crush
- @litmagreject.bsky.social’s Blob
-Alejandro Heredia’s Loca
-Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel
-@erin-ce.bsky.social's Junie

Live at Noon @wnyc.org!

@booksaremagic.bsky.social @adacalhoun.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social

The Literary Favor Economy: In Praise of the Oft-Maligned Book Blurb Late one Saturday night this fall, I hurtled through Cape Cod in a Sprinter van, dressed in a sparkly dress, on the way home from my friends Eric and Frank’s wedding. A fellow guest asked the drive…

@adacalhoun.bsky.social argues in praise of the oft-maligned book blurb.

New Book Releases Today: February 25th, 2025 - Book Notification New Book Releases Today: February 25th, 2025 in Publication and Chronological Order. Mark books read, get notified on new books. Printable book lists.

180+ new books today.
Featuring three standalone novels:

- The Fourth Consort by @edashtonwriting.bsky.social
- Crush by Ada Calhoun @adacalhoun.bsky.social
- The Younger Woman by Cate Ray

Read more about these books and see all 180+ new books releasing today:

tinyurl.com/newbfeb25

#booksky

In Ada Calhoun’s ‘Crush,’ exploring the limits of marriage - The Boston Globe Is the true love affair the one we have with ourselves?

In this Sunday's @bostonglobe.com Books section, a review of Crush by @adacalhoun.bsky.social by @laurenleblanc.bsky.social made us wonder if love and marriage and lust can co-exist

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/19/a...

Got your blurb for the paperback cover right here, @vikingbooks.bsky.social

Review | In ‘Crush,’ monogamy is put to the test Ada Calhoun’s debut novel about a middle-aged wife and mother offers a wry critique of the sexual confines of marriage.

Love this @washingtonpost.com review by the great book critic @roncharles.bsky.social ! "Calhoun’s cleverest feat is blowing us along in this whirlwind of desire and possibility...." washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
There's even a The Awakening joke!

This Is What A Crush Sounds Like Ada Calhoun, author of 'Crush: A Novel,' shares the songs that soundtracked her book — and capture that "odd liminal space between love and friendship."

Songs about different phases of the #Crush for
#Bustle www.bustle.com/entertainmen...

BookPage coverage of 'Crush' Full list of articles featuring Crush in BookPage.

@readbookpage.bsky.social ! ⭐️“Calhoun captures the giddy high of desire…this romp through a middle-aged crush... invites readers to lose themselves to the possibility of love taking unexpected shapes.”https://www.bookpage.com/books/crush-2/

When "Having It All" Becomes "Wanting a Divorce" Society has always told Gen-X women that they can have it all. But in midlife, what do we really want, asks Ada Calhoun.

Essay for #Time about #GenX and #Divorce time.com/7216367/gen-...

#Crush Tour!

Wrote #crush mostly for an excuse to hang out with @taffyakner.bsky.social at @emmastraub.bsky.social ‘s bookstore. Join us! 2/26

First novel out 2/25 from @vikingbooks.bsky.social A most anticipated book of 2025 according to Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, Harper's Bazaar, Bustle, Lit Hub, The Millions, Goodreads.
www.adacalhoun.com/crush