[Unedited] Mary Karr with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” Mary Karr has a captivating ability to give voice to what is funny in life’s most heartbreaking moments. She is beloved for her salty memoirs in which she traces her harrowing childhood in southeast Texas — with a mother who once tried to kill her with a butcher’s knife and her own adult struggles with alcoholism and breakdown. Mary Karr embodies this wryness and wildness in her lesser-known spiritual practice as a devout Catholic — an unexpected move she made in mid-life. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Mary Karr — Astonished by the Human Comedy.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	Poetry has become as important to me as any reading and contemplating I do.
0:05.0	Which is why I'm always eager to remind you about our ongoing initiative, The Poetry Radio Project.
0:11.0	It's a place where you can discover the poetry that so many of our guests fold into their lives.
0:16.0	And you can also delve deep into reading and listening to the many wonderful poets we've had on the show.
0:22.0	Check out one of my favorites, Marilyn Nelson-Red for us, Love Song.
0:27.0	We'll also find Naomi Shehab-Nai, John O'Donohue, Lely Long Soldier, and many, many more.
0:33.0	All that at onbearing.org slash poetry.
0:37.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:44.0	Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force for our lives.
0:50.0	A powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world.
0:56.0	Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:59.0	I'm Christa Tippett, and this is On Being's Unheard Cut.
1:02.0	You're listening to my unedited conversation with Mary Carr.
1:06.0	Listen to our produced show with her wherever you find your podcasts and, as always, at onbearing.org.
1:13.0	All right, we should stop talking because let's just do the official, just in case we're wondering to any important territory.
1:26.0	Can you hear you?
1:33.0	Paul?
1:35.0	He just handed me a cup. He's just gone into the, the areas.
1:39.0	I think that's what I think the door opened maybe.
1:41.0	Oh, yes. It just opened.
1:42.0	Oh, yes. It just opened. It was bringing her energy. I'm sorry.
1:44.0	Oh, yes.
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