In the New Yorker, memoirist Mary Karr recounts a recent, casual sexual assault by a “crotchgrabber” on the street in Manhattan.
Mary Karr
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How Mary Karr Teaches Her Students About Memory: A Short Excerpt from ‘The Art of Memoir’
The celebrated memoirist uses a little deception and a judicious ‘fuck’ to make a point.
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The Pre-Internet Small Town
Mary Karr, in The Paris Review, on her small-town roots.
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When Jeffrey Eugenides moved to New York, he was 28 years old and things were not looking good. After graduating from Brown in 1983, he and Rick Moody, a college friend, had driven out to San Francisco with no real plan other than making a go of it as writers, and lived together awhile on […]