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and generated controversy. Part of the volume recounts the author's romantic relationship with a married journalist who she dubbed "Adrien Brody", and is reportedly based on an actual relationship with a prominent American writer. Daniel D'Addario of ''Salon'' said the article upon which the book was based "sent shockwaves through the publishing industry". Calloway's writing has been championed by writer

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. As of 2021, Calloway was studying Japanese at Hunter College and living in New York City. She had reportedly recently married.

Reception

A writer in ''Esquire'' described Calloway as belonging to an "'Asperger's style' of literature, the mode of a small New York-based coterie of writers who specialize in disaffection and disconnection." Jacob M. Appel at ''Quarterly Conversation'' compared Calloway to

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and

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's Dorothea Brooke. A writer in ''Bookforum'' described the controversy that greeted Calloway's debut, writing, "The initial publication of "adrien brody" on novelist Tao Lin's website Muumuu House heralded Calloway's arrival in the New York literary scene—as an author, but also as a phenomenon. Brody was recognizable to insiders, and the ethics of Calloway's exposure were questioned, often within broader attacks on her sexual morality and provincial assessments of her craft."

Publications

* ''what purpose did i serve in your life'', 2013.

References

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