Mary Karr
Books by Mary Karr
The Liar's Club
Cherry
Poetry by Mary Karr
Viper Rum
The Devil's Tour
Abacus
Mary Karr's three volumes of poetry are Viper Rum (New Directions), The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. Her poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Parnassus. Her memoir, The Liar's Club, was a New York Times bestseller for more than a year and was selected as one of the best books of 1995 by many periodicals, including The New Yorker, Time, People, and Entertainment Weekly.  Cherry (Viking), her follow up to The Liar's Club, was a bestseller for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, and was named "Best Book" of 2000 by Entertainment Weekly, Us, and Amazon.com.  She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College and is now the Jesse Truesdale Professor of Literature at Syracuse University."  --Taken from Karr's academic webpage.
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