Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is the author of
Red Riding Hood, a #1
New York Times bestseller published worldwide in thirty-eight editions and fifteen languages.
She is the editor of Hauser & Wirth’s The Artist's Library for
Ursula magazine. She is publishing director of the
Chicago Review of Books, and associate editor of
A Public Space.
Blakley-Cartwright's debut adult novel is
Alice Sadie Celine.
At Electric Lit the author tagged "eight of the most inventive literary explorations of the love triangle." One title on the list:
Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun
A memoir of a young heroine attempting the impossible task of competing for her father’s affections against a legend of 
exquisite literary renown. Ada Calhoun’s father, the great Peter Schjeldahl, attempted to write a novel of his hero, Frank O’Hara, and Calhoun picks up the mantle, attempting to complete it. In one sense, the Calhoun’s memoir reads like a question to be solved, as Calhoun inadvertently unravels a sense of her father, a parent who sought emotional distance in order to safeguard his creative efforts, as she reconstructs the life of the great poet. In another, a story of knotted affections between three creators. Whichever way you frame it, this memoir illuminates three artists’ pledges and obligations to work, artistry, and family; and complicates the ways in which we venerate our heroes.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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