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The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

Mary Karr
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"Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, The Paris Review, Issue 191, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2009.
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.