During the long year that The Forever Marriage was circulating, I sought out portraits of imperfect but redeemable women.
David Tereshchuk | Posted 01.22.2012
The publishing industry has now fully readied itself for the holidays, with offerings that include yet more aggressively-promoted slices of first-person recollection.
Peter Brown Hoffmeister | Posted 01.08.2012
Memoirs are often written by the spurned lover, the abused child, the disenfranchised group member. Some memoir writers haven't dealt with their pasts, using the print medium to get even.
Jennifer Lauck | Posted 05.25.2011
Memoirs have been called misleading, fraudulent, overly confessional and now are also deemed narratively non-rigorous and too easy to write.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
If your friends and family know that you're a big-time reader, you're surely going to get books for the holidays. And if they don't know you well, y...
Flavorwire | Caroline Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011
As James Joyce once wrote, "Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." Sweet, right? While we'd agree that ...
Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011
The paperback edition of her searing, beautifully reviewed memoir, Lit, has hit the shelves, and Karr is striking out to stoke the sales buzz for a book that should be flying out the door all on its own.
Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The paperback of my memoir was released recently, but I barely recognize my own book with the new cover. It hurts my heart to say goodbye to the gerbils on the hardcover edition of The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter.
Posted 05.25.2011
The ABA (American Booksellers Association) announced the finalists for the Indies Choice Book Awards on Monday, which are chosen by any and all indepe...
The New York Review of Books | Francine Prose | Posted 05.25.2011
Francine Prose The New York Review of Books A Knife at the Door "Lit: A Memoir" by Mary Karr Harper, 386 pp., $25.99 In an introduction to the tent...
Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011
Memoirs allow us to get intimate with another person, to discover secrets and learn from that person's own discussion of her life issues.
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and National Book Award finalists Jayne Anne Phillips and Bonnie Jo Campbell were among the nom...
Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 05.25.2011
The following is a continuation of a Huffington Post interview with author Mary Karr on her new memoir, "Lit." You can read the first part here. Hu...
Posted 05.25.2011
This week, the book review round-up includes some reviews from insider journals Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist, which often get the scoop on n...
The New York Times | The NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | Posted 05.25.2011
After so many years, and so many lists, you might think the task of choosing the 10 Best Books would get easier. If only. The sublime story collection...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
For a writer of memoirs, Mary Karr has had a charmed life. That is, a lot has happened, almost all of it colorful, much of it painful.
npr.com | Posted 05.25.2011
NPR has a host of great author interviews every week, and we thought we'd bring you the best of the recent ones. Listen below for three really great o...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Dreading going home for the holidays? So are a lot of people, and we imagine some of these writers wouldn't be looking forward to it either. Here ...
The Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 05.25.2011
The brouhaha that flared last week when "Publishers Weekly" announced its list of Top Ten Books of the Year, a list that garnered probably unwanted bu...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small...
Ann Bauer | Posted 05.04.2012