As you may know from her groundbreaking debut memoir, The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr’s alcoholic, unstable mother, a woman who shot at more than one of her six husbands and once threatened to kill her children with a butcher knife, was also one of the few... Full Article at New York Magazine

Mary Karr owes me. Because of "Lit," her new memoir, my week was a disaster. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

The triple meaning of Mary Karr's memoir title ''lit,'' short for literature; ''lit,'' slang for drunk; and ''lit'' as in lit from within by a spiritual glow tells you all the ground that's covered in this radiant, rueful, rip-roaring book. Full Article at Entertainment Weekly