Summer book series: Mary Karr

Summer book series: Mary Karr

If you’re going to have a summer series on memoirs, there is truly no better person to begin with than the boss of memoir herself, Mary Karr. In 1995, Mary Karr published her debut memoir, “The Liar’s Club,” an engrossing, tragicomic telling of her childhood in a poor, industrial East Texas town. “The Liar’s Club” took the publishing world by storm and inspired a wave of confessional memoirs. Mary then followed it up with “Cherry” in 2000 and “Lit” in 2009. She also wrote a how-to book about the genre called “The Art of Memoir” and is now working on her fourth memoir. In addition to her memoir career, Mary is also the author of five celebrated volumes of poetry and is a longtime professor of English at Syracuse University. And on this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie and Mary dive into it all: the writing process, books that impacted her life and career, her faith, aging gracefully (or not), even cherished Winnie-the-Pooh poems. It’s such a fun, hilarious and absorbing conversation and a real treat to kick off the summer. Enjoy and make sure to check out Mary Karr’s oeuvre. Links below.

The Liar’s Club

Cherry

Lit

The Art of Memoir

Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(447)

Rachel Maddow on Trump's Downfall, MAGA's Future & What's Next for America

Rachel Maddow on Trump's Downfall, MAGA's Future & What's Next for America

Rachel Maddow joins Katie Couric for a wide-ranging conversation about Donald Trump, the future of MAGA, and what the stunning results of the 2026 midterm elections mean for American democracy.After D...

12 Nov 59min

The Art of Aging: The Loneliness Fix

The Art of Aging: The Loneliness Fix

My girlfriends and I have a plan: When we’re 85, we’re all moving into one big house together, somewhere warm, of course. Our own modern-day Golden Girls. (I’ll be Sophia.) But it turns out there’s re...

10 Nov 50min

The 2026 Midterms: A Democratic Landslide and a Republican Reckoning

The 2026 Midterms: A Democratic Landslide and a Republican Reckoning

The 2026 midterms delivered an extraordinary night for Democrats, who won control of both houses of Congress and flipped key races in states like Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina. But was this a vote...

7 Nov 56min

The Art of Aging: What Every Woman Should Know About Her Brain

The Art of Aging: What Every Woman Should Know About Her Brain

As we get older, so many of us notice little changes in our memory: forgetting a name, losing a word mid-sentence, rereading the same paragraph three times. It’s easy to write that off as a normal par...

3 Nov 1h 11min

Kerry Kennedy on Her Mother Ethel’s Extraordinary Life

Kerry Kennedy on Her Mother Ethel’s Extraordinary Life

Ethel Kennedy was pregnant with her 11th child when her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968. She spent the next five decades raising her children, keeping her faith, and fighting for ...

29 Okt 1h 11min

The Art of Aging: What Happens to Your Sex Life as You Age?

The Art of Aging: What Happens to Your Sex Life as You Age?

As I get closer to my 70th birthday, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it really means to age well. That’s what inspired “The Art of Aging,” where I’m talking with leading experts about the science ...

27 Okt 1h 27min

Kyle MacLachlan Gets Personal: Inside His New Memoir “Fictional Selves”

Kyle MacLachlan Gets Personal: Inside His New Memoir “Fictional Selves”

Kyle MacLachlan has spent four decades disappearing into other people. He’s been Paul Atreides in Dune, Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks, and Trey MacDougal in Sex and the City. Now, in his new...

22 Okt 1h 10min

The Art of Aging: Word of Mouth

The Art of Aging: Word of Mouth

When we talk about aging well, we focus on our hearts, our brains, and our muscles, but we almost never talk about our mouths. After this conversation, I think that’s a big oversight.In this episode o...

21 Okt 1h 30min

Populärt inom Politik & nyheter

aftonbladet-krim
svenska-fall
fordomspodden
p3-krim
rss-krimstad
flashback-forever
aftonbladet-daily
spar
motiv
svd-ledarredaktionen
rss-sanning-konsekvens
rss-vad-fan-hande
en-runda-till
omni-podd
politiken
rss-krimreportrarna
olyckan-inifran
kungligt
spotlight
rss-politikrummet