Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.

The podcast about the unknown.

On the KCRW iTunes page.

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Boots.

Well, we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timber.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today, I'm really pleased to have as my guest, Mary Carr.

Her new book is The Art of Memoir.

She's been writing memoirs herself from the one years ago when we first spoke

The Liar's Club and then there's Lid. And Cherry, I have to say that you single-handedly brought

me to an affection for and willingness to read memoirs.

I didn't do it before.

And the thing that most fascinated me was when you talk about them as being somehow not involved in the wars of class that take place in canon literature.

And I wondered if you could talk about that.

Yeah, thanks so much, Michael.

I'm really touched.

I've been a fan of a bookroom for decades and really very moved to hear you say that.

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