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 ...

“Any way I tell this story is a lie,” wrote Mary Karr in the prologue to her 2009 memoir Lit, “so I ask you to disconnect the device in your head that repeats at intervals how ancient and addled I am.

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,” ...

Mary Karr's first two memoirs, "The Liar's Club" and "Cherry," told the chilling tales of her East Texas childhood and adolescence so smoothly that one could only imagine her having come through as if ...

The “grande dame” of contemporary memoir writing is back with a new book, Lit, that reminds us why memoirs became so popular in the first place, said Samantha Dunn in the Los Angeles Times. Fourteen ...

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is expanding its relationship with Masters Of Sex executive producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly with another hourlong period project based on a person’s real-life story. The ...

"There's a place in hell for writers who quote themselves," Mary Karr says in the "Caveat Emptor" that stands guard over "The Art of Memoir." She proceeds, naturally, to quote herself at length, ...

Mary Karr is a best-selling memoirist and award-winning poet. Her memoir, The Liar’s Club, an account of her turbulent childhood in East Texas, was recently named one of the 50 best memoirs of the ...

What does a memoirist known for her evocations of the calamities of youth in Texas have to learn from a French experimental novelist and filmmaker? For Mary Karr, a first encounter with the work of ...

Author Mary Karr has written three memoirs and is often credited with popularizing the genre, but she still jokes that hers is a "low-rent form." "When I was in grad school, I remember Geoffrey Wolff ...

In her three memoirs (“The Liars’ Club,” “Cherry,” “Lit”), Mary Karr made the stuff of a rough life shimmer and burn. Alcoholism (her tall-tale-telling daddy’s, her wild-woman mother’s and her own), ...