Mary 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 …

Mary 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 …

Mary Karr's first memoir, The Liars' Club, kick-started a memoir revolution and won nonfiction prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters.

Anchored 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 …

Most readers know Mary Karr as the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling memoirs The Liars' Club and Cherry. But before those two books, Karr won praise as a poet whose …

In Tropic of Squalor, Karr dares to address the numinous—that mystery some of us hope towards in secret, or maybe dare to pray to. The "squalor" of meaninglessness that every thoughtful …

Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this--her fourth collection of poems--traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent …

In 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 …

Before Mary Karr gained wide acclaim for her award-winning memoirs and poetry collections, she became controversial figure in the American poetry establishment, thanks to her Pushcart …

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