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Mary karr in conversation with brooke warner at the hillside club, berkeley, sept 2015 duration. A memoir by mary karr penguin books addeddate 20190811 12. Sep 27, 2015 the author of the liars club and, most recently, the art of memoir doesnt care for john ashberys poetry. Some childhoods are so pitiable you have to either laugh or cry.
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