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Now in Paperback: Mary Karr

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By Brendan O’Meara

It was bound to happen: re-runs.

But that’s fine! How many people go back through hundreds of conversations and find a gem? My guess is very little, so this is a great chance to showcase some older pods … now out in paperback (haha).

You know Mary Karr. She ushered in the memoir boom with The Liars’ Club and followed that up with Cherry and Lit. Her craft book The Art of Memoir is brilliant, as is her poetry in Tropic of Squalor.

This episode originally aired in 2018 with the publication of ToS, so I hope you’ll enjoy (or re-enjoy) this conversation with Mary Karr!

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26 letters

By Brendan O’Meara

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There they are.

We all get the same 26 letters.

What will you do with them? You can use them, at first, to imitate. But with enough repetition and rigor those 26 letters forged the voices of Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Karr, and J.D. Salinger. The list goes on and on.

They had the same 26 letters you have right now.

What will you do with them to make them your own?

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Mary Karr’s Writing Tips

By Brendan O’Meara

So…this will be an ongoing blog post whereby I embed Mary Karr’s invaluable—and free!—writing advice. You usually have to drop $20 at a bookstore for this kind of stuff.

She’s somebody so wise and so forthcoming about the process and how many drafts it takes her to finish a poem. 

Enjoy!

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