The Art of Memoir
by Mary Karr
Buy on AmazonBestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements of great memoir—delivered with her signature wit, insight, and candor. Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well. For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse.…
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"This is a win-win kind of book. It stimulates in two ways: First, as a textbook of sorts — even if you don’t plan to write a memoir, thinking about memory and communicating past events will set your mind tumbling over itself. And second, as a resource, a bibliography — the books Mary Karr mentions promise to be great reads. (The ones I’ve read are.) Oh, and one more: If you are planning to write a memoir, this is the best possible way to procrastinate putting pen to paper."
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