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On the highest shelves in Mary Karr’s New York City apartment, above the writer’s desk, is a collection of capital block letters that spell out “HUBRIS.” The letters are an unsubtle warning against the sin of excessive pride. It must work, because Karr is extremely, hilariously self-deprecating. So much so that in Lit, her latest memoir, she denigrates her own suicide attempt as “the lamest stab in suicide’s history.”
Lit is also about Karr’s alcoholism, her conversion to Catholicism, and her trip to the “mental Marriott”—her kicky euphemism for the psych ward. The book is written in the singularly gritty yet funny voice that is the hallmark of all Karr’s autobiographical work, including her two previous memoirs: The Liar’s Club, about her mother’s psychotic break during Karr’s childhood in East Texas, and Cherry, which picks up in her adolescence. She has also published several books of poetry. You can see the link between that genre and her nonfiction: She uses deeply lyrical language, particularly to describe her physical environment (“razor-slicing rain,” for instance, and “chlorophyll green and punctuated in the distance by gargantuan silver silos”).
I talked to Karr over tea in her orchid-filled Hell’s Kitchen apartment about her new book, her faith, subway rage, how God likes her better than other authors, and why memoir writing is not stereotypically female.
Jessica Grose: I was really taken by the prologue of Lit, in which you are talking about how important it is for your son, Dev, to tell his own story. Did you consciously wait until he was an adult to write about him?
Mary Karr: I think I unconsciously waited. I was offered a lot of money to write this book in 2000, when Cherry came out and the reviews were good. I was offered a lot a lot from three different publishers. And I turned it down. That was one of those crazy prayer decisions. In truth, when I look back on it, I really did not want to be talking about my alcoholism and our divorce probably until Dev was out of high school.
My son has never read my books, but he knows what’s in all of them, and I think he’ll read them eventually.
I read Lit at the end of August, when there were two articles in the New York Times Arts section, one of which was about a British woman, Julie Myerson, who wrote about her son’s drug addiction and was roundly pilloried. The other was a companion article about Kaylie Jones, who wrote a memoir called Lies My Mother Never Told Me about her narcissistic mom. There was this discussion in the air about whether it’s OK to write about young children.
Jessica Grose is the managing editor of Double X and the co-author of Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home. Click here to follow her on Twitter.
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