{"product_id":"book-bm2y","title":"The Art of Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eBestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements of great memoir—delivered with her signature wit, insight, and candor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCredited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s \u003cem\u003eThe Liars’ Club\u003c\/em\u003e spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: \u003cem\u003eCherry\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLit\u003c\/em\u003e, which were critical hits as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse.  (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed, Keith Gessen, and Koren Zailckas.) In \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e, she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers’ experience, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e lays bare Karr’s own process. (Plus all those inside stories about how she dealt with family and friends get told— and the dark spaces in her own skull probed in depth.) As she breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, she breaks open our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminates the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoining such classics as Stephen King’s \u003cem\u003eOn Writing\u003c\/em\u003e and Anne Lamott’s \u003cem\u003eBird by Bird, The Art of Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e is an elegant and accessible exploration of one of today’s most popular literary forms—a tour de force from an accomplished master pulling back the curtain on her craft.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49345333395760,"sku":"BDbm2y","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49345333428528,"sku":"ZEbm2y","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bm2y-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776933848","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bm2y","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}