The Art of Memoir

We live in a culture that is about sharing.  First we shared music, then we shared our likes on Facebook, our photos on Instagram, our dating preferences on Tinder and now we share our cars, our houses, essentially our life.Amidst all of this, has been our ongoing and growing appreciation of memoir and of personal stories.  Where once fiction provided a place to explore our inner lives and our moral and social choices, today memoir fills that void.One of the people who brought us to this point, is the bestselling author of The Liars' Club, Lit, Cherry and now The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr. My conversation with Mary Karr: Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe