Mary Karr: 9/8/15

Mary Karr, the award-winning poet and best-selling author, joins Brian this week to discuss her latest book, The Art of Memoir, and reflect on her past work including The Liars’ Club and a poem she wrote about David Foster Wallace, “Suicide’s Note: An Annual.” Also, Karr talks about being critical of David and why she couldn’t read Infinite Jest until after his death. Plus, Brian and Mary talk about some of their favorite memoirs and how Mary believes that with the right tools and mindset, anyone can tell their own story.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Cherry by Mary Karr
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
The Rock Bottom Remainders
Short Sharp Shocked by Michelle Shocked
Texas Campfire Tapes by Michelle Shocked
“Michelle Shocked enrages fans with onstage anti-gay rant.”
Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Stop-Time by Frank Conroy
Body and Soul by Frank Conroy
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Native Son by Richard Wright
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Leviathan by Paul Auster
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison
The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Night by Elie Wiesel
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
The Moment with Jerome Charyn: 8/24/15
Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins by Jerome Charyn
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Forever Overhead by David Foster Wallace
On Writing by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Bullet in the Brain - A Short Film
The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff
"Suicide's Note: An Annual" by Mary Karr

People discussed on today's show:

Mary Karr
Stephen King
George Saunders
Allen Grossman
Michelle Shocked
Tobias Wolff
Marie Howe
Geoffrey Wolff
Raymond Carver
Quentin Tarantino
Ian McEwan
Marina Abramovic
Knausgaard
Isaac Babel
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don DeLillo
Tom Noonan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patti Smith
Pam Houston

This episode of The Moment is sponsored by Draft Kings. Start this football season by winning two million dollars! This isn’t fantasy as usual.  This is Draft Kings. Use code MOMENT to play free for a shot at two million dollars in the Week One Ten Million Dollar Millionaire Maker. Go to DraftKings.com!

And by Braintree. If you’re working on a mobile app and searching for a simple payments solution, check out Braintree. With one simple integration, you can offer your customers every way to pay. Period. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/MOMENT

Email: themomentbk@gmail.com
Twitter: @BrianKoppelman
iTunes: itunes.com/themoment