*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The nightmare might be over for poet Mary Karr and close followers of the dark tale she calls a memoir. Abusive parents, ...
The bloody, incarnadine cover of The Liars' Club blares like a warning, an alarm. Its language — frank, sturdy, trenchant, startling — details a southern upbringing marred by the violence and ...
The author of the memoirs The Liar's Club and Cherry began as a poet; this first collection of verse since 1995's Viper Rum alternates between a familiar, unsparing autobiographical vein and a new ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Poet and best-selling author Mary Karr says there is something 'sacred" about the personal things readers tell her at book ...
Anyone who had the pleasure of listening to and laughing with Karr last week -- currently on a book tour for her latest memoir, Lit -- no doubt was thinking that someone should be taping this. Karr ...
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 ...
"I feel like all my life I have pandered to men in a way that I wasn't aware of," says Karr, who's out with a new collection of poetry, "Tropic of... Memoirist Mary Karr On God, #MeToo And Speaking Up ...
In 2008, the poets Mary Karr and Franz Wright were in conversation at Calvin College for a writing festival. Their banter was natural, not staid; after all, they had been friends “for almost 30 years, ...
The Times would later call this 1995 memoir of a hardscrabble Texas childhood “one of the best books ever written about growing up in America.” The president of the Knicks said that “Chinatown,” ...
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