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Tropic of Squalor
Mary Karr ISBN 0062699830
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Mary Karr ISBN 0062699830
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This book by Mary Karr has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-11-13 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.
"Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral, deeply felt, and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of Squalor, Karr dares to address the numinous--that mystery some of us hope toward in secret, or maybe dare to pray to. The "squalor" of meaninglessness that every thoughtful person wrestles with sits at the core of human suffering, and Karr renders it with power--illness, death, love's agonized disappointments.
“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.
“tropic of squalor her latest volume of poetry a guggenheim fellow in poetry carr has won push cart prizes”— 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.
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