![]() ![]() The "first-person coming-of-age story, putatively true" gave the child Karr hope, she writes. In her new book, "The Art of Memoir," Mary Karr - beloved memoirist and Peck professor of literature at Syracuse University - finds herself foiled in her quest for a "Unified Field Theory" for the category. When we write about the writing of memoir, we are stuck, up front, with the lexicographer's dilemma: How do we define the word? Is memoir, for example, an autobiographical poem? Is it essay, "new journalism," fiction that feels true, ghost stories, an A-to-Z recounting of me? Is it narcissism, and if it is narcissism, what finally redeems it? Memoir can take many forms. ![]()
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