#479: Mary Karr — The Master of Memoir on Creative Process and Finding Gifts in the Suffering

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is Tim Ferris, and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. My guest today is Mary Carr at Mary Carr Lit on Twitter. She's the author of three award winning bestselling memoirs, The Liars Club, Cherry, and Lit. She's also the author of The Art of Memoir, one of my absolute favorites. which lays bare her own process as she breaks down the craft of memoir and Tropic of Squalor, her latest volume of poetry. A Guggenheim fellow in poetry, Carr has won push cart prizes for both verse and essays. Other grants include the Whiting Award, Penn Martha All Brand Award and a Radcliffe Bunting Institute fellowship. Carr is also a Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse. University You can find her online at Mary Car dot com.

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