Ada Calhoun is a New York-based writer whose latest book Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, an essay collection about her own marriage, attempts to answer the questions: why get married at all? And when things get tough, why stay? Her first writings on the subject, To Stay Married, Embrace Change, were published as a viral Modern Love essay in the New York Times. She is also the author of St. Marks is Dead, a social and cultural history of St. Mark's Place in East Village, Manhattan.