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Mary Karr's Reading List

The author of "The Liars' Club" and, most recently, "The Art of Memoir" doesn't care for John Ashbery's poetry: "The most celebrated unclothed emperor in U.S. letters today — an invention of academic critics."

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By the Book: Mary Karr (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-09-24).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Annie Liontas · Buy on Amazon
"A masterful new comic novel"
Mary-Louise Parker · Buy on Amazon
"a gorgeous epistolary work"
Cover of Confessions
St. Augustine · Buy on Amazon
"St. Augustine's "Confessions" — he was our first sex addict: "Give me chastity, Lord, but not yet.""
Cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 1969 · Buy on Amazon
"Age 17, I was profoundly affected by Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" — maybe because she survived a childhood rape to become that most exalted of creatures: a writer."
Cover of Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1985 · Buy on Amazon
Cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · Buy on Amazon
George Saunders · Buy on Amazon
"George Saunders's "Tenth of December" rewards study — best short story writer in English, hands down."
Cover of The Shining
Stephen King · Buy on Amazon
Cover of The Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry · Buy on Amazon
"Anything by Larry McMurtry, starting with "The Last Picture Show""

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