Mary Karr's latest memoir is called "Lit" and chronicles her alcoholism and alcoholic family.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The Carthusian order of Monks believe in complete withdrawal from the world.
Novelist Jane Hamilton remembers her old piano teacher and their battles over practicing.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
Chicago May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker.
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon has written both for adults and young readers. In a recent book of essays, "Manhood for Amateurs," Chabon tackles his own childhood.
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