When it comes to writing about the pain of growing up, author Mary Karr isn't one to hold back. Her new memoir, Lit, describes Karr's early years as a writer, wife and mother, years that were marked ...

Mary Karr’s written three memoirs and treated her readers to the details of her childhood adolesence and adulthood It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Karr’s candid, no-nonsense tone ...

“Any way I tell this story is a lie,” reads the first line of “Lit” by poet and memoirist Mary Karr. It’s an ironic beginning for a writer who rose to fame on “The Liars’ Club,” a book recounting her ...