“Most memoirs will suck, as most novels do. But the
most whiny memoir is written by someone passionately attached to his or her
subject matter. And the connectedness of that single voice is something readers
long for now. You get that connectedness in good fiction of course, even books
with the chilliest narrators. But memoir guarantees emotional conviction of its
writer, which is unfashionable nowadays—low-rent.”—American poet, essayist and memoirist
Mary Karr quoted in Dick Donahue, “
The Monday Interview: Mary Karr,” Publishers
Weekly, Nov. 9, 2009
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