Topic: Mary Karr
Cynthia Mort, who created HBO's racy drama series Tell Me You Love Me and co-created the comedy pilot Tilda, is back in business with the pay cable...
0 . Rodney Crowell recounts the turbulent, complicated relationship of his parents in his memoir, "Chinaberry Sidewalks" (Knopf, 272 pages...
I am in the early stages of gathering information that will become a family memoir. As with many other people who've written, or are planning to write a memoir, I think my family is worthy of a book-length manuscript. The women ...
Adolescence is a crazy time in anyone's life. This is what the poet Mary Karr writes about in her memoir,? ?Cherry. ?? As is implied by the title, Karr tells of her coming of age, sexual and otherwise. Karr's journey is ...
More adults are returning to school than ever before. This book offers a wealth of information for adult students in a compact form (192 pages). This book contains slightly more information than the previous two, such as how to find the right ...
Summer time is my time to catch up on all kinds of overlooked pop culture pearls - whether in music , books, movies, technology- and I love to share my discoveries with readers in hopes they will share perhaps return the favor. I am ...
The National Book Critics Circle will announce the winners of its annual book awards tonight. Dancing in the Dark by Morris Dickstein (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009). Dickstein has written a sprawling, ambitious cultural history of the Great Depression-dissecting everything from working-man ...
Hilary Mantel, Mary Karr among nominees for National Book Critics Circle prizeMan Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and National Book Award finalists Jayne Anne Phillips and Bonnie Jo Campbell were among the nominees announced Saturday night for the National Book Critics Circle ...
With Lit, Mary Karr winds up a trilogy of memoirs that includes The Liar's Club, about her small-town Texas childhood, and Cherry, about her adolescence. Meanwhile, Karr's eccentric, recovering-alcoholic mother darts in and out of the picture, eliciting exasperation and ...
