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Karr, Mary,
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Autobiography -- Authorship.
Biography as a literary form.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
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Karr, Mary,
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Biography as a literary form.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
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Art
of
memoir
/ Mary Karr.
by
Karr, Mary,
HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Call #:
808.06692 K18a
Subjects
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Biography as a literary form.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780062223067 (hc.)
0062223062m (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxiii, 229 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226).
Summary:
"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 bestselling memoirs: Cherry and Lit. For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning graduate teaching prizes for her highly selective seminar at Syracuse, where she mentored such future hit authors as Cheryl Strayed, Keith Gessen, and Koren Zailckas. In The
Art
of
Memoir
, she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and "black belt sinner," providing a unique window into the mechanics and at of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in the genre. Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The
Art
of
Memoir
lays bare Karr's own process, plus all those inside stories about how she dealt with family and friends, and the dark spaces in her own skull probed in depth. As she breaks down the key elements of literary
memoir
, she breaks open our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminates the cathartic power of reflecting on the past. Joining such classics as Stephen King's On Writing and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, The
Art
of
Memoir
is an elegant and accessible exploration of one of today's most popular literary forms -- an accomplished master pulling back the curtain on her craft"--Provided by publisher.
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