![]() In her book "The Art Of Memoir," she reflects on the process of writing personal stories. If dysfunction was all you needed to write a great memoir, she notes, most of us would've written great ones. But her memoirs are distinguished not just by the story she tells but by the quality of her writing. ![]() After getting sober, to her great surprise, she became a committed Catholic. ![]() And, like her mother, she became an alcoholic. Her father was an oil worker and a gambler. Her mother, during a psychotic break, tried to kill her with a butcher knife. She's had plenty of material to work with. ![]() Mary Karr, is best known for her three memoirs, "The Liars' Club," "Cherry" and "Lit." She's credited with helping turn the memoir into a popular literary form. I'm Dave Davies, sitting in for Terry Gross. ![]()
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