Mary Karr | search
Click here to view Mary Karr news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- 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.
- Contact - MARY KARRMary Karr. Department of English. College of Arts and Sciences. 401 Hall of Languages. Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY 13244-1170. . Inquires about KIN. Heather Bohn - HBPR.
- The Devil's Tour - MARY KARRThe Devil's Tour - MARY KARR. In her celebrated essay “Against Decoration,” published in Parnassus, Mary Karr took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days and their attendant justifications: deconstruction and a “new formalism” that elevates form as an end in itself. Her own poems, she says, are ...
- The Art of Memoir - MARY KARRThe Art of Memoir - MARY KARR. Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
- Lit - MARY KARRLit - MARY KARR. The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, 'continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal' (Entertainment Weekly).
More
