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The Art of Memoir (Paperback)
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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. (The
writing program there produced such acclaimed 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 art 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 get told- and the dark
spaces in her own skull probed in depth.) As she breaks down the
key elements of great literary memoir, she breaks open our concepts
of memory and identity, and illuminates the cathartic power of
reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated
history, whether writer or reader, will relate. 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-a tour de force from an
accomplished master pulling back the curtain on her craft.
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