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Title:   Lit: A Memoir
Participants:   Mary Karr
In conversation with author Heather King
Program Date:    11/17/2009
Program length:    1hr
Media Type:   MP3

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Podcast summary

A new memoir by the author of The Liar's Club, about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live.


Participant(s) Bio

Mary Karr is the author of four volumes of poetry, including Sinners Welcome, Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. Karr's first memoir, The Liars' Club, won the PEN Martha Albrand Award for best first nonfiction. The sequel, Cherry, about her adolescence was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in Syracuse and New York City.

Heather King is the author of two memoirs: Parched, and Redeemed: Stumblings Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and The Peace That Passes All Understanding. A commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered," she is also an ex-lawyer, an ex-drunk, and a Catholic convert.


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