The nightmare might be over for poet Mary Karr and close followers of the dark tale she calls a memoir. The couple bought the house for the location near Kirkwood's downtown. “I look back on ...
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. The nightmare might be over for poet Mary Karr and close followers of the dark tale she calls a memoir. Abusive parents, ...
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 ...
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 on the couch -- all ...
Mary Karr may not be the president of the memoir — the first line in “The Art of Memoir” states “No one elected me the boss of memoir” — but she is probably its superstar. Karr, who will be the ...
Cherry, by Mary Karr. Viking, $24.95. Readers familiar with The Liars’ Club, the book many critics credit with single-handedly resurrecting the memoir as a popular form, will welcome back the ...
Events are free and virtual unless otherwise noted. Broadway Books holds a two-day fundraiser for three organizations assisting in Ukraine: CARE, Mercy Corps and HIAS. The store will donate 20% of ...
"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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