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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Arguelles, Ivan. Review of Abacus, by Mary Karr. Library Journal 112, no. 15 (15 September 1987): 84.

Arguelles offers a mixed assessment of the poems collected in Abacus.

Barber, David. Review of The Devil's Tour, by Mary Karr. Poetry 164, no. 3 (June 1994): 164-67.

Barber commends Karr's lyrical craftsmanship, vivid description, and expressive language in The Devil's Tour.

Joughin, Sheena. “No Place Like Home.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5127 (6 July 2001): 25.

Joughin praises Karr's use of a first-person narrative voice in the opening half of Cherry, arguing that the technique evokes “the edgy displacement of adolescence.”

Pinsker, Sanford. “The Landscape of Contemporary American Memoir.” Sewanee Review 111, no. 2 (spring 2003): 311-20.

Pinsker offers a critical reading of contemporary memoir...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Mary Karr (essay date 1991)
   2. Cyra McFadden (review date 16 July 1995)
   3. Scott Donaldson (review date 23 July 1995)
   4. Gaby Wood (review date 19 October 1995)
   5. Elizabeth Young (review date 20 October 1995)
   6. Kate Hubbard (review date 4 November 1995)
   7. William Harmon (review date winter 1997)
   8. Elizabeth Powers (essay date June 1997)
   9. M. Joy Gorence (review date September 1997)
   10. Barbara Jordan (review date 1998)
   11. Judith Kitchen (essay date winter 1998)
   12. Robert McDowell (essay date winter 1999)
   13. Leslie Ullman (review date February 1999)
   14. Eric Murphy Selinger (essay date 2000)
   15. Sue Churchill (review date winter 2000)
   16. Mary Karr and Wendy Smith (interview date 2 October 2000)
   17. Liz Marlantes (review date 12 October 2000)
   18. Joyce Carol Oates (review date 2 November 2000)
   19. Valerie Sayers (review date 3 November 2000)
   20. Alix Kates Shulman (review date December 2000)
   21. Sanford Pinsker (essay date spring 2001)
   22. Jennie Bristow (review date 25 June 2001)
   23. Vicki Woods (review date 30 June 2001)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright