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The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr ISBN 0062223062
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Mary Karr ISBN 0062223062
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This book by Mary Karr has come up 3 times on Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-05-13 and the most recent from 2024-06-11. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.
“author of The art of memoir which breaks down her process and Tropic of squalor her latest volume of poetry”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Rick Rubin and Mary Karr: Rick Rubin is a nine-time Grammy-winning music producer and author of The Creative Act. Mary Karr is a poet and author of the bestselling memoirs The Liars' Club, Cherry, and Lit, and a longtime Syracuse writing professor. A 10-year-anniversary super combo: Rick Rubin on creativity and a 135-pound transformation, and Mary Karr on trauma, sobriety, and writing.
“she's also the author of the art of memoir one of my absolute favorites which lays bare her own process”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Mary Karr: Mary Karr is the award-winning, best-selling author of the memoirs The Liars' Club, Cherry, and Lit, plus The Art of Memoir and poetry collections like Tropic of Squalor. A Guggenheim fellow and Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University, she grew up in a hardscrabble, hard-drinking family in southeast Texas. Memoirist Mary Karr on the painful craft of memoir, getting sober, prayer, and finding spiritual gifts hidden inside suffering.
“I've read the art of memoir by Mary Karr which is a book I absolutely adore which I think touches on that also quite a lot”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Elizabeth Gilbert: Number one New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and the novel City of Girls. A former award-winning magazine journalist whose career spans acclaimed fiction and nonfiction. Elizabeth Gilbert on grief, creativity as spiritual practice, trusting bodily intuition, and saying a clean, guilt-free no.
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