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Credited with sparking the existing memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Team spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash best vendors: Cherry and Lit, that have been critical visits as well. For 30 years, Karr has also taught the proper execution, winning teaching awards at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed, Keith Gessen, and Koren Zailckas.) In The Artwork of Memoir, she synthesizes her expertise as teacher and therapy patient, article writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and "black belt sinner", providing a distinctive window in to the mechanics and skill of the proper execution that is as irreverent, insightful, and compelling as her own work in the genre. Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow freelance writers' experience, The Artwork of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process. (Plus all those inside stories about how exactly she handled relatives and buddies get told - and the dark places in her own skull probed in depth.) As she reduces the key elements of great literary memoir, she breaks open our ideas of storage and identification, and illuminates the cathartic electricity of reflecting on the past; anybody with an internal life or complicated background, whether article writer or reader, will relate. Becoming a member of such classics as Stephen King's On Writing and Anne Lamott's Parrot by Parrot, The Artwork of Memoir is an beautiful and accessible exploration of one of today's most popular literary forms - a head to de force from an attained master pulling again the curtain on her behalf craft.
