Mary Karr on Girls and their Dragons

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Mary Karr on Girls and their Dragons
Thu Nov 19 13:31:43 PST 2009

Mary Karr, the poet and ever the “scrappy little beast,” gives me three more reasons to marvel, and cherish her, in her third memoir. Lit, after The Liars’ Club and Cherry, is the story of drinking her way to Catholicism, sobriety and more writing. Her title refers, she says, to the things that [...] External site

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