Mary Karr

Men Who Don’t Know Women: On Unlearning the Lessons of “Dick Lit”

Molly McGhee on David Foster Wallace, Violence, and Writing Her Own Novel

 
By Molly McGhee  October 17, 2023
On Poetry

Poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Matthew Zapruder on Wonder, the Secular Sacred, and the Surprising Power of “Once Upon a Time”

By Matthew Zapruder  April 5, 2023
The Craft of Writing

Mary Karr on Navigating Memory While Writing Memoir

By Mary Karr  October 21, 2022
#MeToo

The Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace

By Mary K. Holland  November 29, 2021
The Hub

A PBS episode about Flannery O’Connor will feature interviews with Hilton Als and Mary Karr.

By Walker Caplan  February 23, 2021
Rereadings

The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

By Zan Romanoff  February 10, 2020
On Poetry

My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

By Elizabeth Bales Frank  July 23, 2019
News and Culture

Mary Karr Thought Her Whiting Award Call Was a Prank and Hung Up

By Mary Karr  May 3, 2019
What to Read

The Coming-of-Age Memoirs That Helped Me Write About My Life

By Christine S. O'Brien  December 7, 2018
Conversations

Terrance Hayes on Shakespeare, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and What Makes a Good MFA

By Jeffrey J. Williams  May 9, 2018
Advice

Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

By Emily Temple  January 22, 2018
What to Read

The Classes 25 Famous Writers Teach

By Emily Temple  September 12, 2017
What to Read

100 Books Across America: Fiction and Nonfiction for Every State in the Union

By Emily Temple  August 23, 2017
Personal Essay

Mary Karr: Stop Asking Me About David Foster Wallace, Thanks

By Emily Temple  January 18, 2017
Audiobook

The First Truly Blockbuster Audiobook?

By Emily Temple  January 17, 2017
Essay

Confessions of a Reluctant Memoirist

By Lucas Mann  April 1, 2016
Festivals

30 Questions for 30 Writers at the Miami Book Fair

By Ryan Rivas  November 12, 2015
Craft

If You Want To Write, Here’s the Book For You

By Susannah Felts  October 23, 2015
What to Read

Five Books Making News This Week: Memoir Queens and Ping-Pong Losers

By Jane Ciabattari  September 29, 2015
What to Read

Catholic Lit: A Reading List for Pope Francis

By Nick Ripatrazone  September 25, 2015