Memoirist Mary Karr On God, Poetry And Her Own #MeToo Moments
Editor’s Note: This segment discusses sexual violence, and contains audio that some listeners may find disturbing or offensive. The book excerpt below also contains some explicit language.
Acclaimed memoirist Mary Karr has just published “Tropic of Squalor,” a new collection of poetry. Included in the collection are poems about her family, her relationship with God and David Foster Wallace, with whom she had an abusive relationship.
Karr (@marykarrlit) joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to talk about the book.
- Scroll down to read excerpts from “Tropic of Squalor”
Interview Highlights
On her volatile relationship with David Foster Wallace
“I had a relationship, he had the volatile part. One reason I finally spoke up about the violence is I have so many young women who write things that I read, they imagine that I could never be in a situation with somebody who is violent. And I’ve got to just say after 20 years of silence about it, at a certain point, I feel
