"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 ...

No one's more qualified to write a book called "The Art of Memoir" than Karr and no one's more capable of making it lively and thought-provoking. Karr talked about her love of memoir and why ...

Karr lends her characteristic trueness and “you-ness” to the subject of writing memoirs, wisely (and quite often humorously) guiding readers in their understanding and experience of the art.

“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 ...

In her new book, The Art of Memoir, Karr reflects on the process of recounting personal stories and writing about loved ones without betraying them. When it comes to the latter, she says that ...

Mary Karr discusses the faults of memory, the challenges of writing about loved ones and the pain of deleting 1,200 pages because "there was something untrue about them." Her new book is 'The Art ...

For years, I had heard rumors questioning the veracity of Mary Karr's powerful memoir, "The Liar's Club," so reading her treatise on memoir writing was reassuring. In "The Art of Memoir," a sort ...

In her three memoirs (“The Liars’ Club,” “Cherry,” “Lit”), Mary Karr made the stuff of a rough ... In a preface to her new book, “The Art of Memoir,” she notes that until rather ...