by Hester Kaplan | Dec 8, 2025 | Announcements & News, Home Page Featured Press
Over the past few years, a surprising new genre has emerged: the critic’s daughter’s memoir. In 2022, there was Ada Calhoun’s Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me. The alluded-to-father there was the art critic Peter Schjeldahl, who died four months after...
by Hester Kaplan | Dec 8, 2025 | Announcements & News, Home Page Featured Press
When Hester Kaplan was just about thirteen and her parents were away for the evening, she entered her father’s study, off limits to her even when he was there. Sitting at the desk where Justin Kaplan had composed his magnificent biography Mr. Clemens and Mark...
by Hester Kaplan | Oct 6, 2023 | Announcements & News
Hester Kaplan named 2022 Quarry Farm Fellow by The Center for Mark Twain Studies for her new book in-progress, Twice Born: How Mark Twain Helped Me Find My...
by Hester Kaplan | Apr 17, 2020 | Announcements & News
For a copy of “The Private Life of Skin,” originally published in Southwest Review and included as required reading in The David Foster Wallace Reader, please use the contact form. CONTACT FOR...
by Hester Kaplan | Apr 17, 2020 | Announcements & News
Read Hester’s Story “This is Your Last Swim.”. READ...
