Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V welcomes Mary Karr to present the new book "The Art of Memoir."
Now out in paperback, Karr’s primer on writing a memoir is as compelling as the actual memories she recounted in The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit. Mining her experience of chronicling her Texas childhood and adolescence, her marriage, and her struggle to become a writer, Karr illuminates key questions about how to use identity and memory to project an authentic voice, how to be honest, and how to identify and convey pivotal moments. But no two lives are alike, and Karr examines excerpts from a wide range of autobiographical essays, showing how various writers have shaped life into literature.
