Podcast Episodes featuring Mary Karr

Motherhood with Celeste Ng & Mary Karr

Selected Shorts - November 14, 2019 18:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
On this show, guest host Kate Burton introduces two stories that look at the joys and complexity of motherhood. They were chosen by the novelist Celeste Ng and memoirist and essayist Mary Karr. In “Looking for a Thief,” by Danielle Lazarin, a suburban mother questions her choices. The story is p...

[Unedited] Mary Karr with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett - January 25, 2018 17:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” Mary Karr has a captivating ability to give voice to what is funny in life’s most heartbreaking moments. She is beloved for her salty memoirs in which she traces her harrowing childhood in southeast Texas — with a mother wh...

Mary Karr — Astonished by the Human Comedy

On Being with Krista Tippett - January 25, 2018 17:05 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” Mary Karr has a captivating ability to give voice to what is funny in life’s most heartbreaking moments. She is beloved for her salty memoirs in which she traces her harrowing childhood in southeast Texas — with a mother wh...

#59: Mary Karr, Best-Selling Poet and Master Memoirist

Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris - February 01, 2017 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11.1K ratings
Mary Karr has shared many dark pieces of her past in her memoirs, from a painful childhood, to a long struggle with alcoholism and depression, to living her entire life as an agnostic before becoming a Roman Catholic. It was when she said she found herself "sober in a mental institution" that she...