Mary Karr, the award-winning poet and best-selling author, joins Brian this week to discuss her latest book, The Art of Memoir, and reflect on her past work including The Liars’ Club and a poem she wrote about David Foster Wallace, “Suicide’s Note: An Annual.” Also, Karr talks about being critical of David and why she couldn’t read Infinite Jest until after his death. Plus, Brian and Mary talk about some of their favorite memoirs and how Mary believes that with the right tools and mindset, anyone can tell their own story.

 

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

Cherry by Mary Karr

Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr

The Rock Bottom Remainders

Short Sharp Shocked by Michelle Shocked

Texas Campfire Tapes by Michelle Shocked

“Michelle Shocked enrages fans with onstage anti-gay rant.”

Memoirs by Pablo Neruda

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Dispatches by Michael Herr

Stop-Time by Frank Conroy

Body and Soul by Frank Conroy

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Native Son by Richard Wright

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Leviathan by Paul Auster

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison

The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Night by Elie Wiesel

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski

The Moment with Jerome Charyn: 8/24/15

Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins by Jerome Charyn

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Forever Overhead by David Foster Wallace

On Writing by Stephen King

The Shining by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff

Bullet in the Brain - A Short Film

The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff

"Suicide's Note: An Annual" by Mary Karr

 

People discussed on today's show:

Mary Karr

Stephen King

George Saunders

Allen Grossman

Michelle Shocked

Tobias Wolff

Marie Howe

Geoffrey Wolff

Raymond Carver

Quentin Tarantino

Ian McEwan

Marina Abramovic

Knausgaard

Isaac Babel

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don DeLillo

Tom Noonan

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patti Smith

Pam Houston

 

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