The poet Mary Karr has produced three provocatively titled memoirs -- " The Liars' Club," " Cherry " and now "Lit" -- to tell her life story, or at least her story up to the point when she published the first installment in... [read full story]
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For a writer of memoirs, Mary Karr has had a charmed life. And, in each of her three books, she's followed the advice of mentor Tobias Wolff ("Take no care for your dignity") and produced not just a bestseller, but a memoir...
In her new memoir, "Lit," Mary Karr turns a poet's eye to adulthood, alcoholism and her conversion to Catholicism. She talks about attending Macalester College, living in the Twin Cities and appreciating poetry. She's in town...
In her third memoir, Mary Karr gets sober and finds faith—with attitude. As you may know from her groundbreaking debut memoir, The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr’s alcoholic, unstable mother, a woman who shot at more than one of her...
Lit A Memoir By Mary Karr (Harper; 386 pages; $25.99) Mary Karr owes me. Because of "Lit," her new memoir, my week was a disaster. Laundry piled up, the dishes went unwashed, my son went without his flu shot, and our puppy peed...
The sequel to "The Liars' Club" and "Cherry" takes Mary Karr into adulthood - and alcoholism. Review: More than a depiction of an interesting life, Mary Karr's memoir is beautifully crafted, harrowing and ultimately redemptive....
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr I finished reading the entire second half of The Liars' Club this morning in a frenzy, wanting to finish it in time for Book Klub, which is not even until Thursday night, but I am already...
