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Index
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Caveat Emptor
Preface: Welcome to My Chew Toy
1 | The Past’s Vigor
2 | The Truth Contract Twixt Writer and Reader
3 | Why Not to Write a Memoir: Plus a Pop Quiz to Protect the Bleeding & Box Out the Rigid
4 | A Voice Conjures the Human Who Utters It
5 | Don’t Try This at Home: The Seductive, Narcissistic Count
6 | Sacred Carnality
7 | How to Choose a Detail
8 | Hucksters, the Deluded, and Big Fat Liars
9 | Interiority and Inner Enemy—Private Agonies Read Deeper Than External Whammies
10 | On Finding the Nature of Your Talent
11 | The Visionary Maxine Hong Kingston
12 | Dealing with Beloveds (On and Off the Page)
13 | On Information, Facts, and Data
14 | Personal Run-Ins with Fake Voices
15 | On Book Structure and the Order of Information
16 | The Road to Hell Is Paved with Exaggeration
17 | Blind Spots and False Selves
18 | Truth Hunger: The Public and Private Burning of Kathryn Harrison
19 | Old-School Technologies for the Stalled Novice
20 | Major Reversals in Cherry and Lit
21 | Why Memoirs Fail
22 | An Incomplete Checklist to Stave Off Dread
23 | Michael Herr: Start in Kansas, End in Oz
24 | Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision
Acknowledgments
Appendix | Required Reading—Mostly Memoirs and Some Hybrids
Permissions
About the Author
Also by Mary Karr
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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