Nobody Sounds Good Writing About Your Divorce,

There Are Women Succeeding Beyond Their Wildest Dreams Because Of Their Sobriety.

I Was 40 Years Old Before I Became An Overnight Success, And I'd Been Publishing For 20 Years.

Your Heart, Mary Karr, He'd Say. His Pen Touched My Sternum, And It Felt For All The World Like The Point Of A Dull Spear As He Said, Your Heart Knows What Your Head Don't. Or Won't.

I Always Say That A Poet Loves The World, And The Prose Writer Needs To Create An Alternative World.

I'm Not Nearly Smart Enough Or Imaginative Enough To Tackle The Novel Form. Never Happen.