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Bookmark or Share- The Art of Memoir - MARY KARRAnchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers’ experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr’s own process. (Plus all those inside stories about how she dealt with family and friends get told— and the dark spaces in her own skull probed in depth.)
- MARY KARR - HomeMary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed and New York Times best-selling memoirs The Liars' Club, Cherry, and Lit, as well as the Art of Memoir, and five poetry collections, most recently Tropic of Squalor.
- MEDIA - MARY KARRIn 2010, Mary Karr made a video series called Poetry Fix with the young poet and novelist Christopher Robinson. In each 3-5 minute episode, Mary reads one of her favorite poems and the two them discuss what makes it magic. Find all 20 episodes on Mary's YouTube channel.
- About - MARY KARRMary Karr is an award-winning poet, essayist, songwriter, and memoirist from East Texas. She first gained attention for her controversial Pushcart Award-winning essay, "Against Decoration," (reprinted in Viper Rum), in which she took aim at excessive verbal ornament in poetry.
- Lit - MARY KARRWritten with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up--as only Mary Karr can tell it. “Irresistible. . . .
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