Mary Karr, Poet/Memoirist/Professor
@marykarrlit
Liars’ Club, Cherry, Viper Rum, Lit, Sinners Welcome, Art of Memoir, Tropic of Squalor
Telling somebody to ‘relax’ has worked zero times.
This sneaky lady led me and her favorite poppet to a hopping corner of park. Danged if it wasn’t the Brooklyn Hot Girls Walk….
God love Epictuitus: ‘You are a little spirit hauling around a corpse.’ Small wonder we’re all so tired….
I was just reminded of this interview I did with the great @marykarrlit for @parisreview. It was the magazine’s first Art of Memoir interview, and it’s among the things I’m most proud to have done in my career. Read it if you haven’t (link below) and check out Mary Karr’s work!!
This interview is simply amazing — “Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir, No. 1” by Amanda Fortini in the Paris Review. I printed it out more th...: zpr.io/HDU8M
Tragic this young bard, Andrea Gibson, had to die—just 4 days ago—for me to discover this work. RIP, sing with the angels
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Go to the Limits of Your Longing Imagine via Paul Holdengraber
Dear @FedExHelp @FedExEurope @FedEx , I gave you $324.23 to send son's bday gifts NYC-Rome 9/25- 9/27. They never showed. Ten phone calls later, I have no package & no refund. #NOTfair. #Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hard to improve the blank page, so y’all git with it….
The writer Mary Karr @marykarrlit on the "charismatic" Jesus she met in prayer during the Spiritual Exercises. Listen to our conversation on "The Spiritual Life" podcast, available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple podcasts or anywhere you listen to podcasts. americamagazine.org/thespiritualli…
My homie & spiritual director shocked me by calling me a mystic in this podcast. Also available on youtube, Apple, Spotify
Mary Karr @marykarrlit on why she became Catholic: "I walked into Mass with this antipathy towards all these people. And when I walked out, I loved them." On the latest episode of "The Spiritual Life." Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and everywhere you listen to podcasts.…
Git some Patricia Smith poetry before the day goes dark. She matters, y'all. @pswordwoman
A pretty good deal, if I do say so myself.
Bday hoedown for two scribbler beauties born under the same star. Leslie Jamison & Erin Williams popped into mine last night. Look for our girl-gang graffiti tag: #GirlsGoneMild
Who knew old Neitzsche had it in him: ‘Let this be your honor: always to love more than you are loved and never to be second in this.’
I can only pity those poor soldiers in that heat! Wonder what the orange julius caesar’s tyrant romp will do for recruitment….
This is really funny.
Okay who made this? 🤣
Couple of billionaires having a hissy little catfight. Who gives a shit? The world actually has problems.
Son Dev (center) preparing to shoot in Sicily for Scorcese series on #TheSaints #ProudMary
