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Mary Karr, Poet/Memoirist/Professor

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Liars’ Club, Cherry, Viper Rum, Lit, Sinners Welcome, Art of Memoir, Tropic of Squalor

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fans, I wrote a short chapter in 4 days—10 half decent pages. Nothing 🔥but = momentum (vs. doldrums last month). Know that on mule plodding days, your unconscious is working unseen. The bad pages stand in line to be thrown out before keepers bob up Tips

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With all my whining abt this book project, I measured real progress. In Oct, I netted 18 pages total. This month, I’m at 30 halfway thru. It may not feel triumphant, but we gotta celebrate any victory. (Does the pony across the living room….)

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Glorious lit'rary & spiritual convo with Antonio Spadaro today, great Jesuit writer (who heads the Vatican's ministry of culture & education). He lit up my humble abode. Who knew? 🙌🏻

Glorious lit'rary & spiritual convo with @antoniospadaro today, great Jesuit writer (who heads the Vatican's ministry of culture & education). He lit up my humble abode. Who knew? 🙌🏻
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This blasted book thinks it can kill me & go on living without me. I will kick it & bite it & some day it will sleep between covers while I'm still treading shoe leather talking big.

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Once again my friend Mosab Abu Toha pens an unforgettable piece about living w his kids & fam in an expanding bomb site. Jesus wept. I🙏 for mercy.

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Yesterday I was co-director of my grand baby’s daycare operation—stuffies & spooky horror movie babies & a random snowman. We diapered & wiped bloody noses, gave shots, dandled em when they missed their moms, read stories, settled sqabbles. Best job I ever had….

Yesterday I was co-director of my grand baby’s daycare operation—stuffies & spooky horror movie babies & a random snowman. We diapered & wiped bloody noses, gave shots, dandled em when they missed their moms, read stories, settled sqabbles. Best job I ever had….
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The The New Yorker’s David Remnick reported from Israel, ending with a quote from our friend Mosab Abu Toha. A peerless article in an awful time. Pray for peace. 🙏🏻

newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

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‘Ts a joy to announce that dear Mosab Abu Toha (gr8 poet in Gaza) & his fam of stellar human beings are alive. But their four-story house is rubble. Luckily, they were in a camp sans water, fuel, cell service. As our friend David said, ‘Incredibly, this counts as good news.’

‘Ts a joy to announce that dear @MosabAbuToha (gr8 poet in Gaza) & his fam of stellar human beings are alive. But their four-story house is rubble. Luckily, they were in a camp sans water, fuel, cell service. As our friend David said, ‘Incredibly, this counts as good news.’
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A genius young poet & father of three beauties in Gaza now devoid of water, fuel, ambulance & now zero cell service & bombs falling. No way to escape. ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

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With so many people suffering worldwide, on the street I try to pray for every face I see, maybe saying, Lord, have mercy. Maybe: Bless that one. Love is the driving life force & we should all beam it out like the blazing suns we are

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As gets harder, go at it softer. The instinct (which comes from fear) is to attack. But that just pours energy into the scared place. Move slower. I speak as an alleged memoirista who’s stalled like a bad car (pun intended) weeks. life tips

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I’m alive, for now.

Thanks to everyone who has been thinking of me and my family and all Gazans.
The past few hours were extremely difficult. God only knows what will happen in the next hours and days.
Stop the slaughter of civilians in Gaza.

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My friend Mosab Abu Toha in Gaza facing death every second w/ neither food nor water nor power nor cell service plus nowhere to run. Please read The New Yorker piece about life in an open air prison when the jailers can bomb your family…..

newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

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