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A new volume of poetry from the New York Times bestselling and esteemed author of The Liar's Club and Lit.Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and deeply felt and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of Squalor, Karr dares to address the numinous—that mystery some of us hope towards in secret, or maybe d...

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Se a metà degli anni '50 ti trovavi a vivere a Leechfield, era molto probabile che a un certo punto della vita avessi commesso qualche sbaglio, o che non avessi colto un'occasione, o che magari ti fossi rassegnato. Non c'erano molte altre ragioni per abitare nella cittadina petrolifera più piccola, brutta, provinciale, puzzolente e sperduta del Texas orientale. A Charlie Marie queste cose erano capitate tutte e tre, ma Mary Karr, sua figlia, l...

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A new volume of poetry from the New York Times bestselling and esteemed author of The Liar's Club and Lit.Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and deeply felt and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of Squalor, Karr dares to address the numinous—that mystery some of us hope towards in secret, or maybe d...

Voor iedereen die een autobiografie wil schrijven.' - Wall Street Journal Als je wilt weten hoe je het schrijven van je levensverhaal aanpakt, dan is Memoires schrijven een onmisbare gids. Mary Karr laat zien wat je wel en niet moet doen als je je persoonlijke verhaal wilt schrijven en ondersteunt dat met voorbeelden van belangrijke schrijvers op dit vakgebied. Ook vertelt Karr over haar ervaringen als memorialist en schroomt daarbij niet haa...

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). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness—and to her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a hands...

In her fourth collection of poems, self-described black-belt sinner Mary Karr traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote “Give me chastity, Lord—but not yet!” has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion story.

“Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass.”—from Now Go Out ThereEvery year there are one or two commencement speeches that strike a chord with audiences far greater than the student bodies for which they are intended. In 2015 Mary Karr’s speech to the graduating class of Syracuse University caught fire, hailed across the Internet as one of the most memorable in recent years, and lighting up the Tw...

A guide to writing memoirs, which draws on the author's experiences as a writer, reader and teacher, and lays bare her own writing process.

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 Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord -- but not yet!" has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion story. Karr's battle is grounded in common loss (a bitter romance, friends' deaths, a teenage son's le...

Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober, becoming a mother by letting go of a mother, learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up—as only Mary Karr can tell it.

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